Demon is coming again with HEREAFTER which will open on Friday in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.

Directed by Clint Eastwood; written by Peter Morgan; director of photography, Tom Stern; edited by Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach; music by Mr. Eastwood; production design by James J. Murakami; costumes by Deborah Hopper; produced by Mr. Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy and Robert Lorenz; released by Warner Brothers Pictures. Running time 2 hours 9 minutes.

With Matt Damon (George Lonegan), Cécile de France (Marie Lelay), Frankie and George McLaren (Marcus/Jason), Jay Mohr (Billy), Bryce Dallas Howard (Melanie), Marthe Keller (Dr. Rousseau), Thierry Neuvic (Didier) and Derek Jacobi (Himself).

The afterlife is not necessarily where you would expect to find Clint Eastwood, who at 80 shows no signs of tiring out or settling down. His latest film, “Hereafter,” is at once recognizably his — in tone and atmosphere — and a startling departure from his previous work.

Death has never been a stranger in Mr. Eastwood’s cinematic universe: the lone riders and taciturn gunmen that defined his heroic phase as an actor were frequently pitiless avatars of mortality, and the grave has often been the horizon toward which both the righteous and the wicked in his movies are drawn. But like most filmmakers working outside the genres of horror or sudsy religious comedy, Mr. Eastwood has shown little inclination to point his camera beyond that horizon.

“Hereafter” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some disturbing images and strong language.