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05-01-2006, 06:50 AM
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Mortuary (2005)
MORTUARY (20050
Directed by: Tobe Hooper After viewing Mortuary, I couldn’t help but wonder “How the Mighty Have Fallen”. This would be just another direct-to-video horror, but it was directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Funhouse), and stars Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation). The plot is simple; a single mom (Crosby) and her two children, a teenage son (Dan Byrd) and young daughter (Stephanie Patton) move from the comfortable suburbs of Chicago to a rundown town which is hardly named and never mentioned what state they’re in. Crosby has just finished Embalming School and has leased a rundown old mortuary. When they arrive they’re met by an extremely weird “realtor” (Greg Travis) who immediately tells them that the sewage has backed up on the property, which is also where the fluids run from the embalming room. The son takes a job at a local diner and quickly learns the myth of “Bobby Fowler”; a boy so hideous his parents kept his face covered with a “death shroud”. In the early 60’s, the Fowler parents are murdered and the boy missing and was presumed dead, but the myth is he's alive and living in the catacombs under the graveyard and funeral home. The film is not without its merits and unintentional laughs. Crosby, as she states in one of the extras on the DVD, looks like she just walked off an airplane and onto the set without looking at the script, and she did. She states she was the last one cast for the film. She is the least interesting character here. The role of her son is your typical “just moved here from the big city” role, but quickly turns more sympathetic as his world is suddenly turned horrendously around and he must not only defend himself, but also for his helpless little sister, as they are besieged by a hoard of zombies plus "Bobby Fowler". And then there's the creature that is running this horror show from beneath the graveyard. Obviously not blessed with a big budget, director Hooper makes the best of what he has. The building used in the film was actually an old mortuary and needed very few additions to it. The graveyard set next to the house is eerily lit and does promote some shudders. And we do get to meet “Bobby Fowler”, and a few zombies along the way. All-in-all not a bad time filler when you have nothing else to do. :rolleyes: 
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