Mortuary 1983

[Master Blaster]

Ugh, I think I've met my match. I bought an old VHS copy of Mortuary circa 1983 starring a very young Bill Paxton. I made it about an hour into the movie. I'm not sure if I can finish it. Oh the pain, the horrible pain.

[odinn7]

A funny story about this movie. Back in '83 the ads for this movie looked great and I wanted to see it. I never got around to it until a few years later when I saw it at my local video store. I thought how lucky I was to be able to finally get to view this movie that I had waited so long to see. I called my sister and some friends who were horror movie fans and we all gathered around the tv in the "smoking room" that was in our basement. To say we were disappointed is putting it mildly. We took it back that same day and asked the video guy how he could rent such crap to us when he was so good to us with previous horror recommendations. He said that he hadn't seen it yet and was correct when he also mentioned that he never told us to rent it. Still, he felt bad and let us take another movie for free and he threw in a bag of microwaveable popcorn.
On a side note: That video store was awesome. Small, but the 2 guys that owned it were cool as hell and they had a great selection. I moved away years later but a friend of mine who still lives around there says they went out of business when, you guessed it, Ballbuster moved into the area. The service and consideration they gave could never be matched by anyone working for Ballbuster in my opinion. What a waste.

[Menard]

Although MORTUARY (1983) near bored the hell out of me, It was Christopher George's last movie before he died of a heart attack in 1983. Conversely it was also Christopher George's and Linda Day George's last movie together. It at least has that distinction.



Post Edited (02-02-05 16:41)