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RATING |
| 4 |
DIRECTOR |
| Tobe Hooper |
CAST |
Denise Crosby
Greg Travis
Price Carson
Dan Byrd
Alexandra Adi
Courtney Peldon
Bug Hall
Michael Shamus Wiles
Lee Garlington
Adam Gierasch
Christy Johnson |
YEAR |
| 2005 |
RUNTIME |
| 90 minutes |
DATE REVIEWED |
| 1 / 30 / 06 |
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| REVIEWER: FrighT MasteR |
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RATED BY:
12 FAN(S) |
CURRENT RATING:
3.25 SKULL(S)
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Mortuary
Tobe Hooper has come a long way from his Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist days. Now it seems like all he can put out is B-grade material that get no better than a SciFi Movie Premiere and a direct-to-DVD release. His latest effort is Mortuary, a film that oozes boredom with questionable acting and horrible production values. At first the film attempts to play out like an eerie ghost story about a seemingly haunted mortuary, but eventually turns into some sort of cheesy zombie flick. Riddled with plot-holes, the storyline doesn't pick up from its snooze-state until the last 30-minutes, where all the zombie action begins and doesn't let up until the horrible climax. When it was time to show the zombies all we get are a cast with pale skin and lines around their face, obviously drawn by some sort of pencil. Although, there are a few exceptions with certain zombies that stood out.
The story follows a family that moves into an old and abandoned mortuary where they hope that replacing the smell of smog with embalming fluid will somehow help boost family moral. The family gets more than they bargained for when strange things occur on the property and people turn up missing. It's soon revealed that something underground is somehow causing a weird thick black lining to appear all over the house and is the source of some locals acting mysteriously unnatural. It doesn't take long before the dead rise from their graves (which happens to be the front yard) and come pounding at the front door. The zombies in this film come at the last 30-minutes, when the action picks up, leaving our leads to do a lot of running around the property. These aren't the usual slow zombies they're dealing with, but then again, they don't really even look like zombies anyway so... There's really nothing more to say about this film that hasn't already been said.
OVERALL
The movie is bad in all aspects, from what little gore it had, to the horrid computer effects, especially towards the end of the film. If you can sit through the first hour of talking and boring sequences without fast-forwarding or nodding off then you might as well watch the last 30-minutes of crap. Not recommended.
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