Review #151: The Mortuary Collection (2019)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #6 - The Mortuary Collection (2019) What can I say? I'm a sucker for horror anthologies, so when I saw this one on the list I knew I had to check it out. The framing device for this film (a girl applies for a job at a creepy-ass funeral home, where the undertaker tells her the stories of how the people died) is kind of... incredibly hokey, but it comes around in a really interesting way in the end that I really liked. Apparently this movie started as a short called "The Babysitter Murders", which they then built the framing device around (and added a couple more stories to round it out), but I wouldn't have guessed it had I not read it on IMDB, because I definitely feel like an equivalent amount of care was put into each of the segments. The movie isn't perfect, though. Each story was fairly predictable (I saw the frat boy storyline coming from a mile away) and the acting wa...