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This movie started out as a good horror film but the ending was awful! A woman and her two children move to a little town and she buys the towns funeral home. Things of course are weird anyways there but after a couple days get even stranger. People dissappear and then reappear and throw up black tar looking stuff and seem to only repeat themselves (example, one guy keeps saying "Shut up Stupid!" over and over again no matter where he is). The action part was great and you really wondered if they were going to make it out alive. Then the ending came and it was...lacking. On thing they never tell you is what is the black stuff over taking everything, where did it come from, what does it want, etc. Then you have the ending where they killed a hand full the the people that had been "taken over" and seemed to kill the black stuff then out of no where one of the "taken over" people just reappeared and a boy got sucked into the ground and that was it. I know movies love to leave things open for sequals (which they will need just to explain half the stuff that happened in this movie) but this was just to open for me. The actors did a great job and the scary house and everything was wonderful, but just leaving the ending like that was enough for me not want to see this movie again.Read full review
Since this was a TOBE HOOPER film I expected better. The human side was pretty decent. The horror side was eclectic, scattered, with no other purpose but to be freaky. First of all the premise of moving to a new town and starting over after the father has died, is not exactly new. What throws us a curve is Mom's(Denise Crosby) idea of what constitutes a "Fresh Start". She moves her two kids (teenage boy, little girl) into a home slash Funeral Home as she takes on a new career as the town's Mortician. The most depressing part of the movie is at the beginning when they drive up and see the property for the first time. You think Kristen Stewart was appalled when she first set eyes on the house in "THE MESSENGERS"? That place looked like Beverly Hills compared this shithole. AUSCHWITZ looked nicer. Now the stuff that's supposed to be scary is this weird black fungus growing across land and home. Imagine a black version of the red vines/veins from WAR OF THE WORLDS. It's supposed to be the evil of the land or something oozing out. The problem is director TOBE HOOPER doesn't even take a second to explain the stuff. It's just there. He never really takes us through POINT A then B and C. No real backstory on the house. No "WHY" or "HOW". Soon all hell breaks loose right on schedule but it's not really scary and still comes at you haphazardly. They run. They hide. It almost gets them. They get outside. They relax. Oh NO! It's NOT OVER! It grabs someone! Then it ends abruptly and your sitting there scratching your head saying "you mean THAT's IT? What the hell just happened?" You know, TOBE HOOPER must be about 70 by now. Maybe ALZHEIMER'S is setting in? He's definitely not the same guy who gave us TEXAS CHAINSAW and POLTERGEIST. Bottom line here, don't expect much and you won't be disappointed. It's NOT scary. It IS confusing. The SCARIEST part is that Mom actually BOUGHT this place.Read full review
The film was a bit slow and out of rhythm. It lacked what I'm used to seeing from Tobe Hooper's work. It is watcheable but I wouldn't put it on your to do list. I was actually more entertained from the other two versions of Mortuary. One that came out in 2005/2006 which starred Leon Acord. This was very low budget and campy, but kind of fun. The other came out in 1983 and starred a then unknown Bill Paxton.
Love the movie!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
it was so scary and omg dan byrd is a hottie!!!!!!! i love the story it is something different and there are some weird parts but it was amazing. if u liked this movie you would like the hills have eyes also.
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