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Released
2008 · FILM

I Sell the Dead

Never trust a corpse.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
85 min
ComedyHorror

Synopsis

In the 18th century, a pair of grave robbers face the consequences of their actions as justice finally catches up with them. With only a few hours remaining before his execution by guillotine, Arthur Blake recounts his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Soon, Arthur reveals how he was introduced to the grim trade of corpse peddling by the experienced ghoul Willie Grimes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Glenn McquaidShot by Richard LopezScored by Jeff GraceDesigned by David Bell

Box Office

2008 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8K

Budget$750K
Worldwide gross$8K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Enchère et en osfr

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