Mortuary is a 2005 zombie horror film directed by Tobe Hooper.
After the death of her husband, Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) has moved her children, Jonathan (Dan Byrd) and Jamie (Stephanie Patton), to the other side of the country, to take over a small town's mortuary, the Fowler Mortuary. The building is a wreck, Jonathan is engaged in teenage rebellion, and the dead are rising from their graves. Needless to say, this wasn't the best moving experience.
Tropes:
- Creepy Cemetery: The mortuary is conveniently adjacent to the city's cemetery, which is crowded with old graves and a crypt that won't stay closed.
- Madwoman in the Attic: Bobby Fowler was born deformed, and locked away by his parents before he disappeared, and they died a few years later. He's become a local legend, and indeed never completely left the grounds.
- Our Zombies Are Different: They're powered by black mold, and are largely just jerkily moving humans.
- Salt Solution: Salt makes the zombies melt away. Unfortunately, it seems the effect is temporary.
- Shout-Out: Bobby Fowler's tomb is adorned with a famous quote from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Nameless City":"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die."
- The Virus: The black mold/gunk seems to be able to turn people into evil zombie versions of themselves.
