Note: I don't know if you would consider a double feature a marathon... but figured this is the best place for it.Denise Crosby Horror Double Feature
A member of the Crosby family entertainment dynasty, Bing's granddaughter Denise Crosby has worked steadily in film and television since the late '80s, though it would be fair to say almost wholly within the science fiction B-industry (Mutant Species [1995]). Her recurrent appearances on television's Star Trek: The Next Generation, Red Shoe Diaries, and a role in the blockbuster Deep Impact (1998) have contributed toward bringing the quintessential "working actor" to wider audiences. She was once married to Geoffrey Edwards, son of director Blake Edwards.
MortuaryThe director of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Poltergeist', and 'Toolbox Murders' is back with his latest horrifying creation...
In the small town of Santa Loraina, California, the decrepit, long-abandoned Fowler Funeral Home has become a local legend. As the story tells it, Zeb Fowler bought the land to start up a ranching business, but something killed off all the cattle. To make ends meet, Zeb became the town mortician, and the Fowler house was turned into a funeral home - complete with a cemetery for a yard. But the strangest part of the story is the Fowler's son Bobby, whose face was so hideously disfigured it was hidden beneath a burial shroud. At age eight, Bobby mysteriously vanished, and ten years later his parents were found murdered - their faces smashed in. Locals believe that Bobby is still alive.
Today, the Fowler Funeral Home is the stuff nightmares are made of - backed-up sewage pooling the yard, a house of filth, decay, coffins, embalming equipment, and a strange black fungus growing on everything - and now the Doyle family is moving in.
Having recently lost her husband, Leslie Doyle ('Denise Crosby') is relocating her two children, Jonathan ('Dan Byrd') and Jamie ('Stephanie Patton'), to Santa Loraina so she can become the town's new mortician. But the Doyles have no idea of the horror that they're in for. Soon they'll uncover what happened to the Fowlers - what evil inhabits the grounds of the estate and what happens to anyone who steps foot there....My Thoughts:I blind bought this movie last week without even realizing that it had Denise Crosby in it. I thought this was a good movie.... I actually enjoyed it a lot. But it did do one thing that I didn't like... it left me still with a major question... basically it didn't answer what it was that was effecting the people. But then again there is a lot of horror movies that do the same... leave a big question mark on how or why.
There is a few nice extras on this DVD. Other then the theatrical trailer (and promotional trailers) there is a making of and a commentary track. I have the commentary on now as I type this to see if it is explained any more... but I am doubting it at this point. But over all I am glad I added this one to my collection... definitely a different take on a zombie movie. I found it interesting that the zombies wasn't actually go after people to eat them.
OK... After watching the movie for a second straight time... this time with the commentary on...the questions I have was still not answered. And OMG... I think this is the first commentary I ever watched with Tobe Hooper... He is a bit of a mumbler... was even hard to understand a couple times! But I am not to disappointed in not getting my questions answered... because those kinds of questions don't get answered in horror movies a lot of times... you just have to take it for what it is.
