7/21/2023 0 Comments Mvd rewind collection![]() The real star, however, is Bill Paxton, who completely owns the last half hour of the film. Christopher George is all smug and ridiculously self-confident here, but we wouldn't have it any other way while Lynda Day George plays the stern mother well enough, even if she doesn't look quite old enough for the part here. ![]() Charismatic enough in the male lead, Wallace kind of bumbles his way through the film from one strange plot device to the next, but he too seems like a nice enough guy and we get the impression he does have Christie's best interests at heart. She's maybe a little off kilter at times but she even manages to ooze out some sex appeal in a love scene with Wallace. Mary Beth McDonagh, best known at that point for appearing in The Waltons, makes for a likeable enough lead. It is, however, completely watchable, thanks in no small part to the interesting cast that signed up for this one. The film tends to go off in strange directions, be it a scene in a sheriff's office that goes nowhere or a prolonged sequence involving copious amounts of roller disco, it isn't a movie that seems to be particularly concerned with making sense. It only gets more complicated from there.Ī fairly loopy movie, at least as far as logic is concerned, Mortuary is nevertheless a pretty entertaining slasher film, even if it is often times for all the wrong reasons. Soon he gets some help from Andrews' strange son, Paul Andrews (Bill Paxton), who also happens to be madly in love with Christie. Greg takes it upon himself to protect Christie and figure out just what exactly is going on here. Her mother says it's just her overactive imagination but when Greg sees the fiend as well, he realizes that Christy is on to something. Despite protestations from her mother (Lynda Day George), Christie is certain that her father's death was not the accident that the cops said it was but that he was the victim of foul play.Īs Greg tries to figure out what happened to his pal and where his van has gotten off to, Christie is being plagued with visits from a strange man with white face paint dressed in a black cloak and wielding a strange sharp instrument. They head out but Jim gets killed out of view of Greg, who wanders around town with his girlfriend, Christie (Mary Beth McDonagh), who just so happens to be the daughter of the man killed in the opening scene. Jim notes that he's seen this before at the mortuary Andrews runs, the place where he used to work. ![]() From here, two teenage boys - Greg (David Wallace) and Jim (Curt Ayers) - sneak into a warehouse in the middle of the day where they see Jim's former boss, Hank Andrews (Christopher George), involved in some sort of séance surrounded by women dressed in strange cloaks. Cast: Bill Paxton, Lynda Day George, Christopher George, Mary McDonough, David Wallaceĭirected by Howard Avedis in 1983, Mortuary begins when a man is killed by an unseen assailant, his body left lifeless floating in the swimming pool in his backyard.
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