Review of Mortuary (2005) by Archibald T — 22 Mar 2011

A Demented Bill Paxton conducts an imaginary Mozart symphony with an audience of dead bodies slumped in chairs behind him.

Christie's father is murdered by an unknown hooded figure. Her mother doesn't believe her and thinks that he only drowned in the pool instead of being knocked out and falling into the pool unconscious (which is what really happened).

Christie's boyfriend, Greg, stumbles upon a seance with his buddy Josh. They notice that in the seance is Christie's mother and a man who owns a mortuary, Mr. Andrews. When Josh goes missing, Greg finds it a bit strange and gets involved in the mystery. Christie and Greg both stumble upon that the hooded figure stalking Christie is linked to the mortuary.

Mr. Andrews has a son named Paul, played by Bill Paxton, who is later found out to be the hooded figure. What the seances had to do with was that Christie's mother and Mr. Andrew's were trying to contact Christie's father in the after life. Paul, however, had his own plans to get rid anyone that was against him for wanting to be with Christie. So, he kills Christie's mother, his father, anyone else involved which leads to a very ingeniously demented climax set to Mozart music.

I couldn't tell where it was all going and you could plainly see it was Paxton, but I could never pinpoint what his motives were going to be until that final act in the film which he pulled off extremely well.

It's a nicely paced slasher movie with an memorable ending that I am still thinking about.