The Embalmers (2021)
1/10
A Passive Transgressive Attempt Was Made
20 January 2023
A spoiler-free review from Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast.

Your Indiana small town's steampunk cosplay community invited their friends to be in a movie. Think Doctor Sleep meets House of 1000 corpses, but with none of the fun of either. There's necrophilia, child abuse, and wedgy-picking by the actors who forgot the they were on camera. The movie mostly takes place in someone's carpeted living room, someone's old kitchen, or in someone's grass near someone's truck.

They look like they had a lot of fun making this movie and probably get a lot of enjoyment from inviting people over, making them watch it, and pointing out "See that room they're in? We watching the movie in that room right now! Isn't that neat-o?"

The transgressive elements would work wonders for this video if there was a modicum of acting or directing talent in the bunch, but without that you're just watching the horny population of a failing karaoke bar pretend to be in a movie while getting paid in gas station wine.

1 out of 10 IMDb stars. It's a strong do-not-watch.
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