MORTUARY Review Country : USA Year: 2005 Genre: Horror Format: DVD Running Time: Distributor: Echo Bridge Entertainment The Godfather of Grindhouse unleashes some living dead in your face. How does it fair? Credits Directed by Tobe Hooper. Written by Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch. Starring Dan Byrd, Stephanie Patton, Alexandra Adi, William Alva and Price Carson. Mortuary - The Pit of Horror review... After Tobe Hooper's last film, The Toolbox Murders remake, I was on fire to see his next project. When I heard about Brew I was hopeful... Bill Moseley and Tobe Hooper together again? Sadly, it didn't happen. So when I heard that Hooper was working on Mortuary with the same writers that did The Toolbox remake, I was on board and hyped up. Well, The Pit just received a screener of the film and needless to say, I had fun with it... but it's definitely not what I was expecting. In Mortuary, the Doyle family moves to rural California to start a new life; perhaps a strange choice because their new life takes on the form of running the long abandoned Fowler Brothers Funeral Home. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that the land the home lies on is haunted. The Doyle family will soon discover that something lurks beneath the soil -- something that raises rotten corpses from their long forgotten graves and feeds on death itself. It almost seems as if Hooper didn't really read the script before he sat down in the directors chair. You can tell by the tone of the script that writers Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch wanted to play it straight scary... Hooper on the other hand plays it almost goofy and campy. Strange, considering Toolbox was so on point. Mortuary actually gets better as the film goes on. Gorehounds will be upset due to the lack of actual gore in the film, but there’s plenty of zombies, and black fungus spraying everywhere. Dan Byrd from The Hills Have Eyes remake does a good job playing the empathetic teen Jonathan as well as mom Leslie (Denise Crosby) who thinks she can turn the mortuary into the family business. In closing, if you’re expecting anything like The Toolbox Murders or Chainsaw, you will be disappointed. But, those who loved Hooper's get down and have fun attitude will love Mortuary. It premiers on the SciFi channel this month and hits DVD soon there after. Watch this space for details! OFFICIAL SITE DISCUSS ON OUR FORUMS Review by John Gray, for Pitofhorror.com