The basic premise is Christina Ricci thinks she's dead, and mortician Liam Neeson tells the troubled girl who wakes up on his slab that she's actually in limbo and he can guide her through her whole death experience. But in reality he's a bad, bad man injecting her with chemicals to keep her looking dead. What — like you wouldn't try and keep Ricci in your basement either?

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In an exclusive interview with Shock Til You Drop, Justin Long pulled the shroud off the diabolical plans for tormenting Ricci in After.Life. Ricci (who plays Long's lady friend) gets in a seemingly fatal car accident, and wakes up in the funeral home.

"It's going to be genuinely creepy and disturbing" Long explained. "She gets taken in by this mortician Liam Neeson plays. She wakes up on the table as he's preparing her body. She's obviously quite confused and he convinces her he's a medium for the after life [and] she's really dead, but she's in this purgatory state when in fact he's injecting her full of...there are in fact chemicals that make the body appear as if it's dead."

Far out, my friends - after seeing Neeson in Taken I know that there really isn't anything this man can't do, so I'm quite thrilled at the idea of him playing someone this warped. Read the rest of the interview over at Shock.

A 15 minute long portion of the film was shown to some of the cast and crew, and according to Ricci, "A lot of guys were crying at the end of the 15 minute [reel] because there's this real guy-sad thing." What's a sad guy thing that's not a sad girl thing? Does Speed lose his penis during one of the races and get told that he can't have any Speed Juniors? Inquiring minds want to know what's going on. The movie looks like a technicolor vomit comet that merged with a hyperactive video game, but we're not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. As long as the lipstick matches the hurl.

Ricci Promises Positive Female Role Model in Speed Racer [Rotten Tomatoes]

There are so many ways to make Christina Ricci look like a cartoon character AND awesome, but this is not one of them. Click here to see ET's interview with Ricci, which isn't on YouTube yet. She doesn't reveal much, except that her character kisses Speed Racer, and she had no idea what was going on during filming because it was 100 percent greenscreen.

On the plus side, the car looks cool. And after the head-clutching Existentialism For Dummies of the two Matrix sequels, it might be good for the Wachowskis to serve up some brain-dead action. I'm just not sure why it needs to have actors, since it's all CGI and sticks close to the cartoon original.