![]() ![]() Other films like Heaven Can Wait (1943), Defending Your Life (1991) and Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017) treat the afterlife as a purgatory or waiting room where an individual’s life has to be examined in terms of the worth of its moral character. The person awaking in what appears to be a police interrogation room before it is revealed to be in the afterlife is familiar from A Pure Formality (1994). ![]() Limbo has a familiarity to its premise as it starts. ![]() Young who had previously made the horror film Southern Gothic (2007), the post-holocaust film Tooth and Nail (2007), the hostage drama/serial killer film The Killing Jar (2010) and the backwoods monster film Feral (2017). In the course of their examination, witnesses are brought in from the woman who was shot during the robbery to Jimmy’s abusive father to the drug addict mother he mercy killed and the evidence does not look promising. Cassiel is an angel who wants to argue for the almost never granted complete pardon, although Jimmy finds that she has never defended a case before. Balthazar is a demon come to convict Jimmy to Hell. It becomes apparent that Jimmy is in an afterlife limbo, having been shot while in the process of conducting an armed stick-up of a pawnshop. Before he does so, they are interrupted by Cassiel, Jimmy’s advocate, who urges him not to sign. He is questioned by Balthazar who asks him to sign a confession. Jimmy Doyle wakes up in what he thinks is a police interrogation room. ![]()
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