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

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Michael Ledo Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) warps her family into a small town mortuary with a history and a bad septic tank. She is a beginner at the task and apparently has never apprenticed. Rumor has it the deformed Bobby Fowler, former occupant, is alive. The film has a cast of characters that keeps the film alive from time to time: Rita (Lee Garlington) a burned out hippie who now runs a diner, The stuttering sheriff, and bully kid. At times it had scenes with the little girl that worked very well and then there were scenes that needed improvement. Over all a mildly entertaining horror film. Guide: F-word, sex, corpse nudity

Matt Kracht 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.

MetalGeek Tobe Hooper's career in horror has had its ups and downs. For every bonafide classic on his resume like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Poltergeist," there's a bomb like "Invaders from Mars" or "The Mangler" to counteract it. I haven't seen much of Tobe's more recent work, and the comments here on IMDb for "Mortuary" didn't exactly fill me with confidence at first. But what the hell, this DVD was cheap ($5.99 for a "Horror Collection" disc, with three other movies in addition to "Mortuary") so I figured "Ehhh, what the hell, let's give the old boy a shot." "Mortuary" wasn't as bad as I feared but wasn't exactly a masterpiece either. The story is standard stuff -- a recently widowed Mom (Denise Crosby of "Star Trek: TNG" and "Pet Sematery" fame - good Lord, time has not been kind to her) and her two kids move to a new town where Mom (who's fresh out of Mortician's School) plans to re-open the long-abandoned funeral parlor. The teenage son reminded me of a low-rent Barry Watson from "7th Heaven," while his pre-teen sister is, quite frankly, the most annoying Horror Movie Little Girl since Danielle Harris' mute Jamie Lloyd in "Halloween 5." Right off the bat, I found myself hoping that something horrible would happen to her. Does that make me a bad person? I hope not. Anyway, the house they settle into is a creaky, run down dump overlooking the graveyard, the septic tank overflows on a regular basis, and Mom's downstairs embalming area has weird black mold growing all over the walls. The kids are less than thrilled with their new living situation, of course, but none of this seems to phase Mom, who anxiously gets to work on her first batch of "clients" (she keeps her mortician's textbooks propped up on the corpse's chests as she works!) while the teenage son meets some kids at the local diner who tell him the legend of "Billy," a deformed kid who used to live in the house he now occupies. Seems that "Billy" bashed his parents' brains in after a lifetime of abuse and supposedly lives hidden from the world in one of the graveyard tombs outside the funeral home. Nice, huh? Eventually a couple of standard horror-movie stupid teenager characters have a late night run-in with "Billy," who infects them with some sort of zombie virus that causes them to reappear later, coughing up nasty black stuff on people. Needless to say, things go immediately downhill for everybody from here on. Oh, and did I mention that there's some sort of Lovecraftian demi-god monster with lots of teeth and tentacles living in a pit under the house? So, um, yeah, there's a lot going on here. For the last half of this film, I swear it felt like Hooper just gave up and hit the "TOTALLY RANDOM" button.Fortunately, "Mortuary" is one of those movies that moves along quickly enough that you don't really have time to think about how ridiculous it is until it's over. By the time Crosby's character gets infected, becomes a zombie, and starts chasing her kids through a series of passages and tunnels under the funeral home (which look like they were borrowed from "The Goonies"), you may start to wonder if "Mortuary" was intended to be a zombie film, a creature film, or a disease film. It seems to me that Hooper simply mixed clichés from all three genres into one very loud, fast moving, silly soup. The CGI used to create the "monster" under the house is some of the cheapest I've seen outside of an Asylum film, and the abrupt ending reeks of "We have no idea how to end this, so we're just gonna throw one last shock at you rather than give you a satisfactory conclusion." I honestly didn't think much of this movie at first glance, but when I compared it to 2 other films that were on the same DVD ("Bloody Mary" and "Wages of Sin") that I watched afterwards, "Mortuary's" stock shot up a few extra points because the other two were WAY worse. OK, so "Mortuary" wasn't a classic, but it at least kept me entertained to a certain degree. I'd say it's not a bad flick if you can get it cheap (like I did) or if it turns up on SyFy Channel sometime but you're not missing out on a hidden gem if you decide to skip it.

MBunge If a Lifetime Channel movie drugged a 1987 horror film and had sex with it, the offspring of that unholy union would look something like Mortuary.Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby), her teenage son Jonathan (Dan Byrd) and her tweenage daughter Jaime (Stephanie Patton) have driven across the country to start a new life after the unnamed patriarch died. Leslie went back to school to become a mortician and has taken a job running the old funeral home in a small town. But things don't get off to a great start for the family. The funeral home, where Leslie will work and her family will live, is a disaster area. The septic tank has overflowed, the outside of the home looks like it's been ravaged by hobos and the inside of the home looks like it was abandoned sometime after 1935. Jonathan gets a job at the local diner and instantly develops a crush on the young waitress, but he also gets into a fight with some townie losers. Leslie has to deal with an unbelievably unctuous real estate agent and the local sheriff, who nervously asks Leslie to help him keep kids from messing around in the incredibly fake-looking graveyard near the funeral home. He's worried about "graveyard babies", you see. Jaime, well, she just sort of hangs around and looks cute until she gets scared by a monster in her closet.After we hear the requisite scary story about what happened to the people who used to run the funeral home and we see some odd activity by the fungus that's everywhere in the home, that's when the horror starts to kick in. But Mortuary doesn't just have the typical, hulking Leatherface/Jason-type killer. No, this movie also has zombies and a giant monster in a well. There's a lot of screaming and running around, people jump to an awful lot of conclusions and after the ending there's one of those depressingly unnecessary "it's not really over" epilogues.If you're a horror fan, the thing you should know about Mortuary is that there's very little horror in the first hour of this roughly 90 minute film. Outside of just a few moments, including a comically excessive initial reveal of the hulking Leatherface/Jason-type guy, this movie is virtually indistinguishable from one of those chick flicks on Lifetime. No, not the one where the woman's husband cheats on her. And not the other one, where she falls in love with a guy who turns out to be a dangerous lunatic. I mean the one where a family has to rebond with each other after a tragic death. That's what the first hour of Mortuary is like and, you know what? It's actually fairly decent. Denise Crosby is positively milftastic and I don't mean one of those phony milfs, where it's a woman in her late 30s who looks like she has a chef and a personal trainer. Crosby looks like a real mom who is still genuinely hot. Dan Byrd also manages to be completely non-annoying as Jonathan, the teenage boy stuck in a strange new town, and Stephanie Patton is cute but never grating as the darling little sister.But after that first hour, at the exact point in a real Lifetime movie where Leslie would shack up with a guy who turns out to be abusive or Jonathan would start doing drugs or Leslie would get sick, where something would happen to tear the family apart and they'd spend the 2nd half of the movie overcoming that obstacle…that's when the horror kicks in with Mortuary. And in the last half-hour of this film you'll see everything you'd expect to see in a horror movie, just on fast forward. It's like the movie suddenly needs to go to the bathroom really badly and rushes through it all to get to the end. But even though the horror stuff hurtles by in a speedy and superficial manner, it remains fairly sound. None of it is very gory and it's more over-the-top than viscerally scary, but it all more or less works. It's just been compressed, like it was thrown into a garbage compactor or a really, really fat guy sat on it.The truth about Mortuary is that it is a good piece of entertainment which doesn't seem to have an audience. Folks who want horror are going to be perplexed at the relative wholesomeness of the first hour. Folks who'd enjoy the first hour would probably never rent a movie named Mortuary in the first place and if they did, they'd be disappointed with the last half hour. I think this movie is an attempt to recall the days when horror films would start out like normal stories about normal things as though the audience didn't know and expect a bunch of terrible crap was going to happen. If you can remember that and would like to relive that sensation, this is the movie for you. If not, I'm not sure what sort of reaction you might have to this otherwise fine film.