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3	--> ''Never trust a corpse.''
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5	'''''I Sell The Dead''''' is a 2008 [[BlackComedy Horror/Comedy]] film starring Creator/DominicMonaghan, Larry Fessenden, and Creator/RonPerlman.
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7	Creator/DominicMonaghan stars as Arthur Blake, a grave robber who is in prison awaiting his execution at the guillotine. He is visited by Father Duffy (Creator/RonPerlman), who wishes to record some of the events leading up to Blake's arrest. Blake begins with how he got started as the apprentice to Willie Grimes (Creator/LarryFessenden), regaling Duffy with the impoverished nature of their original work over the years, and eventually telling how they jumped into the business of trafficking undead corpses.
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9	Needs more Love.
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12	!!''I Sell The Dead'' contains examples of
13	* ActuallyIAmHim: Arthur doesn't need to be told; he figures it out on his own that [[spoiler: Father Duffy is really Samuel Murphy]].
14	* BigBad: Samuel Murphy, the DiabolicalMastermind controlling the ghoul trade.
15	* BigDamnHeroes: When Arthur is almost killed by the vampire, Willie, who ran away seconds earlier, bashes her with a shovel. [[spoiler: His decapitated corpse also saves Arthur from being killed by Father Duffy/Samuel Murphy]].
16	* BlackComedy: Nothing says funny like pulling a stake out of a vampire, releasing her from paralysis causing her to freak out, and plunging it back in to freeze her again... And doing it several times.
17	* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The zombie bite Willie received on the Murphy island. At the climax it resurrects his decapitated corpse, which saves Arthur from the revealed Samuel Murphy]].

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