Mortuary

R 4.2
2005 1 hr 34 min Horror , Mystery

A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.

  • Cast:
    Dan Byrd , Alexandra Adi , Bug Hall , Denise Crosby , Lee Garlington , Rocky Marquette , Greg Travis

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Reviews

Hellen
2005/08/08

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Listonixio
2005/08/09

Fresh and Exciting

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Plustown
2005/08/10

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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Deanna
2005/08/11

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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tiskec
2005/08/12

This corky movie was pretty descent. It's got it's flaws, but the performance factor was still satisfactory as far as I'm concerned. Oh, yeah, there's a mortuary in the film. Thought I'd tell you that. When the story first starts this kid's mom moves into a strange town's mortuary building, located in a graveyard (Ha! What an eye- roller). As time progresses, her son starts making friends and getting into fights, all typical high school kid garbage. Then the kid hears this legend of some weird dude living within the graveyard of the estate they live on. Soon, they all start noticing this green crap that eventually turns people into the undead. The story then unfolds from there. I don't want to spoil it too much for you. This movie isn't so bad. It's got it's kinks that could've been ironed out during production, but nothing is perfect. I didn't mind it. I think the film is good for a one time watch.

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Matt Kracht
2005/08/13

Every time I watch a movie by Tobe Hooper, I end up thinking, "How is it possible that the same man that directed this crapfest could also direct The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?" Maybe what I *should* be asking is, "How is it possible such an untalented director could possibly make The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?" I'm not difficult to please. I thought The Mangler was stupidly entertaining, kind of like a winking nod to horror fans. "Hey, horror fans! We had Robert England and Ted Levine available for a few days, so we threw together a cheesy movie for you! Sorry it sucks so bad, but we only had $1000 to spend." That's OK, Tobe. I understand. It's the thought that counts. And who doesn't love a movie about a serial-killing laundry machine that chases people down the street? Call it a guilty pleasure.But, seriously, what the hell is this? This is horrible! It's a pastiche of Lovecraft tropes (small town in the middle of nowhere, otherworldly fungus, quotes from the Necronomicon, human sacrifice, and zombies) thrown together with some quirky comedy about a single mother moving out to the middle of nowhere and becoming a trainee mortician (don't even ask), with absolutely no attempt at cohesion or good story-writing. Did they get Tobe Hooper, because Fred Olen Ray turned them down? It sure seemed like it! All this *might* be forgivable, except for the ending. The ending makes no sense whatsoever, and I subtract 5 points merely for that *huge* continuity error. With another point docked for bad CGI and another for the atrocious script, that leaves us with a 3/10. Very generous, indeed.

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homecoming8
2005/08/14

Tobe Hooper is best known for 2 horror-classics: Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974) and Poltergeist(1982). Although, he had some help from Spielberg on the second one. But that was a long time ago. His remake on Toolbox Murders was not a great film but with Mortuary he hits a new low. Since the story takes place in and around a mortuary, he must have thought: that is scary enough. So no exciting story with thrills. In the first half, nothing happens at all, and the characters are annoying and very irritating at times. Miss Crosby once starred in the great Pet Sematary (but that was also a long time ago...) The effects in the second half are rather fake, some are o.k. but overall they are not convincing (like the entire cast for that matter).I'm still wondering why I finished watching til the end, I guess I had some hope considering it was a Tobe Hooper movie. But I really hope he has retired since this turkey..

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mrush
2005/08/15

After the great "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" I've been trying to find another good horror movie from horror legend director Tobe Hooper and it's pretty hard to do."TCM 2" was really good but other than that I'm kinda realizing that Hooper may have been a one hit wonder.In this movie a single mom and her two kids move cross country to start a new life.Supposedly the mom has went back to school to be a mortician.They buy an old funeral home where she does her work.The funeral home is old and run down and decrepit and has a graveyard beside it.So we start out okay but then the movie goes quickly downhill into a typical Tobe Hooper jumbled up mess of disjointed action and unexplained happenings.The family soon learns of a local legend that involves the old funeral home and some deformed kid who was abused and locked up when his parents ran the funeral home.In the meantime some weird mold is creeping around the funeral home and then somehow the dead start coming back to life and get into the mix .So we got this deformed freak and the mold and the living dead who all may be linked somehow but I'm not sure how exactly.All these evil villains and still not a good movie ! I was waiting for a werewolf and vampire to show up.So anyway the family is sort of overwhelmed by all this weird stuff.I felt so underwhelmed when this movie was over.The screenplay was pretty weak....a lot of the stuff was never really explained as to how or why it was happening....the dead just start popping back to life,maybe because of the mold,I dunno, and get this....they can infect you but they have to puke in your mouth to spread the infection or whatever you want to call it.Or the mold can crawl into your mouth and do it at least I think that was possible cause I saw the mold shooting into a girl's mouth for some reason.The acting was pretty good.The lead guy, played by Dan Byrd, kept distracting me cause he looks like the result if Topher Grace and Michael J. Pollard had a kid.(You young'uns will have to Google Pollard.....it'll be worth it).But Byrd was pretty good anyway.The special effects were limited but some were done well.One shot gun blast was startlingly cool.What didn't work,and I'm not sure why director's still use it, was the cartoonish look of the mold when it moved.Whatever you call the process,it looks like the old stop action special effects only done in cartoons.There were a couple of sets of big wobbly breasts briefly shown but sadly they were on zombie chicks.All in all this movie was a jumbled mess of unexplained events and numerous evil entities which I'm sure were all connected in Tobe Hooper's mind into a sensible story somehow, but he just doesn't seem to be able to get the story in his head to make sense on screen any more.His disjointed scrambled film making style was perhaps what gave "TCM" some of it's appeal and it seems like Hooper may have realized that and ever since has been forcing this style trying to make it work again.Oh this movie is as good as most horror films released today.But that ain't saying a whole lot.

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