‘Back in Black’ Director on Lovable Serial Killer Doing “Bad Things for the Right Reasons” in Christopher Walken-Starrer

'Back In Black' Review: Christopher Walken & A Good Script Are Wasted In A Badly Directed Comedy

TORONTO – Something happened from script to screen with “Black in Black,” a world premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, and whatever it was, it wasn’t good. Directed by Ron Murphy from a screenplay by Murphy and Nick Torokvei, “Black” has a smart premise, genuinely funny dialogue, and Christopher Walken’s undying charisma. And somehow, Murphy has squandered all that with a movie featuring the most uninspired and workmanlike e…

'Back in Black' review: Christopher Walken is hilarious as a quirky undertaker

Ella Ballentine goes from "Anne of Green Gables" to "The Vampire Lestat," to a killer comedy with "Back in Black." Review.

‘Back in Black’ Director on Lovable Serial Killer Doing “Bad Things for the Right Reasons” in Christopher Walken-Starrer

Jane Curtin Ella Ballentine also feature in Ron Murphy's debut feature set for a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

TIFF 2026 Review: BACK IN BLACK Chases Death With Laughs and Smiles

Everybody dies, so why not make a profit? Ron Murphy's darkly comedic slice-of-life feature, Back in Black, explores the economics of the dead. The Trailer Park Boys and Wynonna Earp director flips a cheery sitcom town upside down as citizens start dropping like flies, but not with a dreadful gaze. Back in Black is less […]

{TIFF 2026} Back in Black (2026): End Stage Capitalism For The End Stage of Life - Signal Horizon

Christopher Walken plays a lot of eccentrics over the course of a career, but Clyde, the failing small-town funeral director at the center of Back in Black, might be his most purely, gloriously irritable creation yet. Here’s the premise. The wellness craze has finally gone all the way, everyone in town is juicing and meditating […]

TIFF 2026 Review: Back in Black – “a clever, slightly unhinged gem”

“Shut up. Listen” It’s a phrase heard multiple times in Ron Murphy’s directorial debut Back in Black.  What makes it funny is that Christopher Walken says it multiple times to a character who is mute.  That’s one of the running gags of the film, but also tells you what sort of dry humour you’re in […]