Tobe Hooper once made some pretty good horror/fantasy movies. It now looks like he is grasping whatever project he can get his hands onto. Mild horror flick with many plot-holes and confusing situations. A single mom moves her young daughter and teenage son into a mortuary on a creepy graveyard (HUH!!??). A local ghost story about the property proves true and soon the cast start turning into crazy zombies. The zombies here reminded me of the zombies in Return Of The Living Dead, but in a bad way (Tobe Hooper was originally slated to direct that in 3-D). The story starts out good and holds your attention for a while, but then everything gets thuddingly stupid. The characters get more and more annoying as the film roles on and plot holes pop up on a routine level. The story gets weaker every 10 minutes and the conclusion fails to satisfy. The lame-ass digital effects are distracting, too. I saw this on the Sci-Fi Channel. It looks as if the Sci-Fi Channel is starting to show the sort of movies the USA Network ran about a decade ago. Remember Saturday Nightmares and Up All Night? Sci-Fi Channel needs to do stuff like that if they are gonna air movies like this. One Star.
Review of Mortuary
