Mortuary [Import]

A movie with a mortuary, a cult group and Bill Paxton is always worth watching. In this early work Paxton plays a geek that works as an embalmer at the local morgue, he enjoys Mozart and enjoys Christie (his childhood crush) even more. If his morbid job wasn't enough, his father owns the mortuary and in his free time does cult meetings with chanting and dances. His mother committed suicide when Paul (Bill Paxton ) was still a young boy and consequently he started seeing a shrink (Christie's father). That's when he first met Christie and as time goes by he becomes more and more detached of reality, wanting to marry her at any cost. Greg Stevens, Christie's boyfriend will have something to say about that.

Okay so this isn't the greatest film in the world. It's not even the greatest horror film, but fans of Bill Paxton have got to check out this movie. Paxton puts his all into making everyone of his characters entertaining and this film is no different. Bill really goes overboard with this character and it's a good thing because otherwise the movie would be pretty boring. I had to rewind one scene several times I was laughing so hard at Paxton's antics.

I found the movie good, nothing extraordinary nor original, it's not extremely graphic but it has enough blood spilling. The acting is good, so is the score. It has some genuine scary moments and a reasonable plot. The horror fans are likely to enjoy it, as I said initially, this has all the ingredients for a good horror movie.

This was one of those awesome horror movies from the eighties that we all flocked to with such enthusiasm. Come on it starred Mary McDonough of The Walton's fame. She had already been in the TV movie Midnight Offerings with costar Melissa Sue Anderson, the good girl from Little House on the Prairie. Which was also a recent hit TV show when that movie was made. This movie though had all of the obvious trappings of all of the bad dead teenager movies being released at the time but we still jumped at the red herrings and laughed at the bad acting and lame jokes. I have loved this movie forever and I'm so happy it has finally been released on DVD. Now I can have that movie marathon with Happy Birthday to Me and others from that time. I have to through in Terror Train and Prom Night for extra flavor! And some Jamie Lee Curtis action. Awesomely bad horror movies from the eighties. Loving it!!!

Mortuary hit video shelves about 1983 or 84 but looked ok back in the video day but it just kinda disappeared from home video completely. Now...thanks to Scorpion releasing it has been re-mastered to an HD quality format and looks very much worth the money it cost to purchase this dvd. This film has always been a favorite of mine since i seen it as a teenager and owned the vestron video copy. Now i can enjoy it again on dvd with nice color, nice audio, and on my 50 inch HD television without that horrible video cassette quality. I just gotta say JOB WELL DONE!!
NOW.....with the arrival of Bluray it should also be available in that format too.