Eliot injects Anna with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in."

Eventually, Anna escapes and finds a room with a phone where she reaches Paul, who hangs up thinking it's a prank.

Anna's student Jack visits the funeral home and Eliot tells him that they share a gift, the same as Jesus, who raised Lazarus, and he offers to teach the boy more.

After the funeral, Paul drinks heavily and behaves aggressively with Eliot, who seems to taunt him and encourage him to see for himself that Anna is really dead, telling him there is not much time.

Wójtowicz-Vosloo envisioned Naomi Watts to play female lead but for unknown reasons, casting the actress did not happen.

[3] After.Life completed filming in New York at the end of December 2008 with Bill Perkins and Celine Rattray as producers.

According to the website, the film's critical consensus is, "It has an interesting premise and admirable ambitions, but After.Life fails to deliver enough twists or thrills to sustain its creepy atmosphere.

"[9] Bloody Disgusting rated it 3/5 stars and described it as "a plodding reflection on mortality disguised as a psychological thriller".

[12] In a negative review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that "the few good ideas are inevitably thwarted by the filmmaking".