“Welcome fellow entrepreneur! You have taken a valuable step toward bettering your life!”

This is just what our protagonist Tom (Mike Prosser) thinks as he is seduced into being one of Dethco Worldwide’s highly paid employees. Dethco Worldwide is a corporation that makes its living by sending selected people to their predetermined afterlife; thus, controlling the world’s population. THE LIFE OF DEATH is a dark, satirical comedy about corporations and the common people they pay murderous wages to for “doing their part.” As an unloved and timid non-achiever, Tom gets a huge taste of what happens when big money collides with no money for a journey of both absurd and disturbing ramifications.

Stemming off THE DIVIDING HOUR's industry success, THE LIFE OF DEATH has been a continuation of moralistic and creepy storytelling for Greg James and the rest of its creators. Shot on an extremely tight budget, every detail had to be meticulously crafted from pre-production beginning in June 1999 and completed the following year. It has since appeared at the Kelso Film Festival in Kelso, Washington in August 2001 and the Ground Floor Cinema Festival in October 2001. To direct a piece that one produces is a phenomenal feat in of itself. But without disclosing James' amazingly low shooting ratio that was necessary to maintain funding, the film you have in your hands is the vision of an artist who, in the spirit of Playground Films’ uncompromising motto, prides himself in being storyteller first, filmmaker second. So please, watching as if your own life were at stake, enjoy this quirky ride.

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