Product Details

• Actors: Dan Byrd; Denise Crosby; Stephanie Patton; Alexandra Adi; Rocky Marquette; Courtney Peldon; Bug Hall; Tarah Paige; Michael Shamus Wiles; Adam Gierasch; Price Carson; Lee Garlington; Greg Travis; Christy Johnson; Joe Langer; Paul G. Pagnini; William Alva
• Directors: Tobe Hooper
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 11, 2006
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHQTT0
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,724 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Tobe Hooper's Mortuary" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Mortuary is one of Tobe Hooper's best films! The man is a horror genius!" --Michael Hein, Director of the New York City Horror Film Festival

Product Description

A Tobe Hooper Film. DVD Features include: Theatrical Trailer, Unrated Director's Commentary, Unrated behind the scenes featurette with Tobe Hooper, "Inside the Graveyard". When the Doyle family moves to a small town in California, they plan on starting a new life...perhaps a strange choice, seeing as this new life entails running the long-abandoned Fowler Funeral Home and cemetary. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that not only are the grounds haunted, but that the Fowler boy, who wore a burial shroud to hide his hideously deformed face, still lives in one of the tombs there. The Doyles discover all too soon that the gossip is true. Someting lurks beneath the Fowler estate--someting that raises the dead from long-forgotten graves...something that feeds upon death itself.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars forgettable waste of a tasteless mess...., February 15, 2008

By	J. Bilby "littlebibs" (Kingston, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I picked this movie up quick on a Friday nite,(in a hurry, big mistake) a Tobe Hooper flick with
a little horror to it, right from the start I could tell this one was
going to be a struggle. I love B movie horror flicks, I love tacky, low
budget but I just wasn't very impressed with anything from "Mortuary", from the house(mortuary), the characters, the black spreading growth, the diner, the graveyard, the police, the pit, the dead
and worst the living, they all were rotten. God, I hope I didn't give
anything a way to spoil. I've seen most of this
in one movie or another, they just threw it all together. Cheap, lame and not recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Texas chainsaw slumber party, May 26, 2006

By	Reuben I. Thaker "Reuben I. Thaker" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This is an intensely boring story of a possessed mortuary, and a family that take over its operation. The initial scenes are the best, as the old owner hands over the keys while slowly pointing out the hidden flaws of the old house he has just sold them. There is no more of this over the top sick humor though, just mundane teens getting killed for being sexually active [a timeless subtext of horror].

More than a few scenes seemed designed to remind of audiences of Poltgeist, an 80s classic. People dont remember that film was also Hooper, and his best work, since Spielberg took all the credit for it back in 84 as producer.

Tobe Hooper directed Tx Chainsaw Massacre, the original, using a then clever device: make it look like a documentary/real life events. It is hilarious that people thought the new Chainsaw was based on real events, simply bc the 70s version was a bit deceptive.

Wow, this film just does not seem worthy of the director when looking at his early and middle works.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low budget horror fun, May 31, 2006

By	Madelyn Pryor "Goblyn Queen" (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This movie is a lot of fun to watch when you go in with a certain mindset. I noticed many other reviewers were disappointed in the quality of the special effects, etc. This is a low budget horror movie, without the slick Hollywood touches of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I think they did this whole movie for a budget of what a cheap car costs. But if you keep that in mind and keep an open attitude, you'll find many delicious details.

The main villain isn't what you'd expect after reading the box and looking at the director's other films. There's a monster behind the scenes and that is what is really creepy (no I won't say more because I don't want to wreck the surprise when you watch it for yourself). The acting isn't the best in places, but it's not that bad either. The script is pretty good: funny, realistic, and flowing. But the best part about this whole film is the twist ending which had me jumping. I was pleasantly surprised that I was, well, surprised. Not often do I get caught off guard by a horror film, but this one managed that.

So keep an open mind and realize that this does not and will not look like a Hollywood release. It looks direct to DVD, but for a direct to DVD type movie, this one is pretty good.

Recommended.