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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)

Aug 01, 2011 Documentary 1h 26m
User Score
64%
56 votes
Internet Movie Database
72%
Rotten Tomatoes
65%
Metacritic
6000%

Overview

An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.

Jon Foy
Director
Colin Smith
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Justin Duerr
Justin Duerr

Himself
Colin Smith
Colin Smith

Himself
Steve Weinik
Steve Weinik

Himself

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) - Official Trailer [HD]
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) - Official Trailer [HD]
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A review by CRCulver
Written on August 14, 2018

The rise of the internet in the 1990s suddenly gave people the ability to talk and form communities about all kinds of weird niche hobbies and mysteries that, as isolated individuals, they previously had to muse over in silence. One of these, I remember, was the "Toynbee Tiles", linoleum squares left on the streets of Philadelphia over these years that contained the cryptic message "Toynbee idea in Kubrick's 2001 Resurrect dead on planet Jupiter". (It's an odd American analogue to the mysterious man in Australia who used to go around scrawling "Eternity" everywhere.) The Toynbee tile maker was obviously a nutter, but in spite of much speculation among enthusiasts who would upload photos of tile sightings and try to riddle out the message, his or her identity remained a mystery... until thi...

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