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A family moves to a small town to start a new life.
Apparently, they think that it's a good idea to
start their new life by running an old mortuary.
Naturally the small town has many legends
surrounding the creepy mortuary and just as with
every mortuary, it's the hottest place in town to
go partying with your friends at. Well, soon
enough the legends become real and the recently
deceased start walking again. This family doesn't
seem to be able to catch a break.
It's hard to believe that this movie comes from
the same man who brought us cult classics like
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist as
Mortuary is anything but an original horror flick.
After having seen Tobe Hooper’s averagely good
slasher flick "The Toolbox Murders", and his
horrible episode of Masters Of Horror, I really
didn't have high expectations for this movie. But
even so, I was still shocked by just how bad this
was, for a Hooper movie that is.
The story is very clichéd and loans a whole lot
from Poltergeist and Pet Sematary (it even loans
Denise Crosby who was also the mother in Pet
Sematary). It's basically about a mother and her
two children who move into a mortuary to start a
new life after the father of the family died.
Soon, the dead start walking again and the family
of three soon find themselves in a bit of a pickle.
Tobe Hooper directs this movie relatively well
with a couple of nice scenes but while he did
manage to make us jump in The Toolbox Murders,
the scares in Mortuary fail to deliver. There is
also no suspense in the entire movie and none of
the characters are really likeable (the worst of
them has got to be the daughter who annoyed the
hell out of me).
In the end, Mortuary feels very weak compared to
many other recent zombie movies. The story has
been done to death and it doesn't even seem as if
Mr. Hooper is trying to make good flicks anymore.
Maybe it's time for him to dig deep inside himself
and see if this still is his thing or maybe it's
time for him to retire. If the next movie isn't
better than this, I doubt that we'll be seeing much
more of him in the future.
This was an incredibly dry zombie movie. We get a
severed arm and a horribly fake impalement (you
will laugh when you see it as it looks so fake).
The score is really nothing special. We get some
rock music which works pretty well but over-all,
the score was just about as weak as the story.
It really is sad to see one of the greatest horror
movie directors of all time fade away like this.
This is not the Tobe Hooper that we all love, this
is an uninspired, unoriginal and rather uninteresting
zombie flick which could have been directed by
just about anyone. I suggest that you skip this
one, this is not one of the better zombie flicks
that I've seen as of lately.
Review By: AnthroFred
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