Clint Eastwood's Hereafter and this week's Doctor Who crossover both served up poignant meditations on death. But fantastic stories often explore the darkest frontier of them all: Here are 12 other great stories to help you to cope with mortality.
The Horror Of Pedophilia Overwhelms The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson is one of the masters of horror - but nothing in Dead/Alive is one-tenth as horrifying as the pedophile serial killer in The Lovely Bones. And that horror overwhelms Jackson's flimsy attempts to surround it with fantasy. Spoilers...
The Lovely Bones: Hitchcock Meets Dali In Purgatory
The man who managed to film Lord Of The Rings has chosen to adapt introspective afterlife novel The Lovely Bones, and once again he's taken some liberties. But the result is a surprisingly seamless fusion of Hitchcock and Salvador Dali.
A Fine Line Between Heaven and Earth in Lovely Bones Trailer
The full trailer for The Lovely Bones has been released, bringing with it Peter Jackson's often surreal vision of the afterlife. It's a place where fantastical dreams spring to life, and where the living world continues to haunt the dead.
A Ship in a Bottle Crashes into Peter Jackson's Heaven
As murder victim Susie Salmon watches her family from heaven, the afterlife takes the shape of her dreams and desires. In the first video teaser, Peter Jackson fills Susie's heaven, glimmering alpine scenes, and an enormous ship in a bottle.
