"MORTUARY IS ONE OF TOBE HOOPER'S BEST FILMS. THE MAN IS A HORROR GENIUS." – MICHAEL J. HEIN, DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK CITY HORROR FILM FESTIVAL.
Following a terrific return to frightening form with his 2004 reworking of Dennis Donnelly's notorious exploitative slasher "The Toolbox Murders", master of horror Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist; Salem's Lot; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) continues his welcome renaissance of terror with MORTUARY, coming to DVD on 18th September 2006.
Written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch (the screenwriting partners responsible for "The Toolbox Murders" and Dario Argento's forthcoming "Mother Of Tears") and starring Dan Byrd (Salem's Lot; The Hills Have Eyes), Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Deep Impact), Alexandra Adi (Slap Her… She's French), Rocky Marquette (Shallow Ground) and Courtney Peldon (Say It Isn't So), MORTUARY is a fun-packed, edge-of-the-seat, thrill-a-minute horror film involving teenage zombies, reanimated corpses, a run-down cemetery and a gross-out creeping slime with a malevolent mind of its own.
When recently widowed Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) and her two children, Jonathan (Dan Byrd) and Jamie (Stephanie Patton), move to a small town in California, they plan on making a brand new start in life. Having just finished studying to become a mortician, Leslie hopes to revive the long abandoned and run down Fowler Brothers Mortuary, a business that conveniently comes complete with a cemetery on its doorstep. But, as the Doyles soon learn, the people of the local community are wary of the site, believing the mortuary and its surroundings lie on haunted ground. And, as they begin to discover there is more than a hint of truth to the rumours and myths concerning the mortuary's previous owners, it becomes horrifyingly apparent to the Doyle family that the embalming business isn't the only thing that's being revived.
Maintaining a fine balance between heartstopping terror and quirky comedy, director Hooper pulls out all the stops to provide an amusing, spooky and thrilling rollercoaster ride of a horror movie that recalls the spirit of Fred Dekker's much-loved "Night Of The Creeps" and Dan O'Bannon's "The Return Of The Living Dead".
MORTUARY (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£14.99) by Anchor Bay UK on 9th October 2006. Special Features include photo gallery, trailer, Dolby Stereo 2.0, optional 5.1 Surround and DTS, and scene selection.
