Protraph Lack of good storyline.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Michael_Elliott Mortuary (2005) ** (out of 4) Being a teen is hard but it's even harder when your mom is a mortician and moves you into a creepy house with a cemetery attached to it. That's what happens to Jonathan (Dan Byrd) who learns that the house is apparently not only haunted but stalked by a deformed maniac. I think it's fair to say Hooper has been a disappointment ever since his debut even though every fan keeps hoping his next film will be one worth writing home about. This one here, like so many in his career, isn't a terrible movie but at the same times there's really nothing special in it. This film mixes THE SHINING, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and a little bit of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but it can't hold a candle to any of those films and in the end you can't help but feel you've wasted your time. Right from the start you can't help but think the mother is stupid for keeping her children there but the reasons behind the "hauntings" is quite silly and doesn't work by the time they pop up at the end. The movie is never scary which doesn't help matters when it doesn't have much gore either. The special effects are poor CGI that look so obviously fake so here's yet another negative. The cast aren't too bad as they deliver the type of performances you'd expect to find in this type of film. Hooper manages to keep the film moving at a nice pace but the screenplay really doesn't give him too much to work with.

ctomvelu-1 What an odd little horror film, one that has stayed with me even though I have not seen it in several years. A mom and her two kids move into an old funeral home in the middle of nowhere and everything that can go wrong, does. The place is haunted and beyond repair. The first half of the movie is atmospheric and suspenseful, while the second half is a zombie spoof. Take your pick. Denise Crosby, of PET SEMETARY fame, plays the mother. I have to wonder about Tobe Hooper. The films starts off with a sense of eeriness and dread, and then becomes something else entirely, which is not necessarily a good thing. At any rate, the first half is sure to get ya. I am reminded of 1981's DEAD & BURIED, for some reason. Maybe it's the small town setting. Or the zombies.

Mike B. Finally Tobe is back to his roots AND he is back to get even! I think this is a good movie 'cause if you like Tobe's earlier work you will love this. He is back where it all began for him, and he is doing gooood!I've got the same feeling for this movie as I got from seeing "Texas chainsaw..." and thats a long wait I think. Hopefully he will keep on doing movies like this one 'cause i wanna feel that again and again. The feeling that the 80's slasher/zombie genre is not dead and hopefully it will grow stronger.Hope more movies like this one is going to be made in the future. I'll watch them anyway (with a big smile on my lips :-) ).He's BAAAACK!!

mrush After the great "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" I've been trying to find another good horror movie from horror legend director Tobe Hooper and it's pretty hard to do."TCM 2" was really good but other than that I'm kinda realizing that Hooper may have been a one hit wonder.In this movie a single mom and her two kids move cross country to start a new life.Supposedly the mom has went back to school to be a mortician.They buy an old funeral home where she does her work.The funeral home is old and run down and decrepit and has a graveyard beside it.So we start out okay but then the movie goes quickly downhill into a typical Tobe Hooper jumbled up mess of disjointed action and unexplained happenings.The family soon learns of a local legend that involves the old funeral home and some deformed kid who was abused and locked up when his parents ran the funeral home.In the meantime some weird mold is creeping around the funeral home and then somehow the dead start coming back to life and get into the mix .So we got this deformed freak and the mold and the living dead who all may be linked somehow but I'm not sure how exactly.All these evil villains and still not a good movie ! I was waiting for a werewolf and vampire to show up.So anyway the family is sort of overwhelmed by all this weird stuff.I felt so underwhelmed when this movie was over.The screenplay was pretty weak....a lot of the stuff was never really explained as to how or why it was happening....the dead just start popping back to life,maybe because of the mold,I dunno, and get this....they can infect you but they have to puke in your mouth to spread the infection or whatever you want to call it.Or the mold can crawl into your mouth and do it at least I think that was possible cause I saw the mold shooting into a girl's mouth for some reason.The acting was pretty good.The lead guy, played by Dan Byrd, kept distracting me cause he looks like the result if Topher Grace and Michael J. Pollard had a kid.(You young'uns will have to Google Pollard.....it'll be worth it).But Byrd was pretty good anyway.The special effects were limited but some were done well.One shot gun blast was startlingly cool.What didn't work,and I'm not sure why director's still use it, was the cartoonish look of the mold when it moved.Whatever you call the process,it looks like the old stop action special effects only done in cartoons.There were a couple of sets of big wobbly breasts briefly shown but sadly they were on zombie chicks.All in all this movie was a jumbled mess of unexplained events and numerous evil entities which I'm sure were all connected in Tobe Hooper's mind into a sensible story somehow, but he just doesn't seem to be able to get the story in his head to make sense on screen any more.His disjointed scrambled film making style was perhaps what gave "TCM" some of it's appeal and it seems like Hooper may have realized that and ever since has been forcing this style trying to make it work again.Oh this movie is as good as most horror films released today.But that ain't saying a whole lot.