Death Becomes Them: The Musical! (Video 2008) Poster

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6/10
Well I've just about seen everything now !!!!!!!
CorblimeyGuvnors8 March 2015
Be warned this is not a horror movie. It is in fact a documentary.

James Dean Healy and Cathee Schultz are the married curators of the museum of death in Hollywood. Now, as the title implies, it is a kinda musical. In between documentary footage there is a singing undertaker and a dance group !!!

If you enter into this with the knowledge that this is a documentary (and try to ignore the musical numbers) we have a half decent documentary charting the relationship between the curators, their reasons for pursuing their venture and the challenges they face. Being closed down twice and rising from the ashes.

I did indeed find all of the documentary footage fascinating and gruesome and the basic premise of battles against adversity was solid entertainment.

I just could not get my head around the singing undertaker (oh and don't forget the singing rats). All this silliness just belittled the seriousness of the subject matter in the documentary.
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With all Due Respect to the Filmmakers, I was lied to...
ZombieRanger9 July 2009
Warning: Spoilers
I picked this gem out of a lineup of other movies, and upon reading the back was lead to believe this was a horror anthology revolving around a couple living in a mausoleum. Whew... not the case. This is almost a straightforward documentary about a couple who happen to own a museum about death. I say almost because there are some dance sequences spliced into the doc footage revolving around some zombie-like narrator and his ghouls(which appear to be some local dance troop covered with pancake) that have zilch to do with the rest of the movie. The interview with the couple is sadly not very interesting, it's the experience of being stuck in a room with two aging west coast artists while they ramble on about their house and hobbies. This movie is the equivalent of a bad cross-country flight. I actually feel sorry for the filmmakers, I don't believe they were trying to sell this as a horror movie, but that's the way the distributors marketed it, so dopes like myself will pick this up expecting something they certainly won't get. I'm biased in my review of this movie, I'm not a documentary fan, but had I known what I was going to watch I may have been kinder in my final score of it. I just want anyone planning to watch this to know what they are getting into.
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