If you’re craving a horror movie that eschews typical tropes, it’s time to queue up Paramount+. "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" is a far more cerebral film than it initially lets on, twisting familiar genre beats into a uniquely unsettling experience. It is smart, contained horror that prioritizes dense atmosphere over easy thrills.
The premise seems simple: a father-and-son coroner team is delivered the body of an unidentified young woman and tasked with determining her cause of death. But the deeper they dig, the less sense anything makes. From shattered wrists to internal scars and archaic poisons, the evidence begins to point toward an impossible reality.
