Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Mortuary (1983)

Artists Releasing Corporation
Directed by Howard Avedis
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Scorpion Releasing)

Mary McDonough, who will forever be remembered as Erin on The Waltons, is stalked by a killer dressed in a black robe and theater make up. His identity is so obvious that I thought it might be a red herring, but the movie is not that sophisticated. Erin, I mean Mary, and her boyfriend hang out at the roller rink, make out in a car and in her living room. Erin's nude scenes are obvious body doubles. Erin and her mom go through a lot of melodrama about the death of her father in the swimming pool, which provides the background and motivation for the killings. There is a somewhat interesting scene at the end which takes place in the mortuary involving Mozart and the bodies of all the victims in the movie. Otherwise, it is strictly routine. The movie poster, and trailer, have absolutely nothing in common with the movie: there are no zombies and no buried dead.

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