Wednesday, August 24, 2011

(HORROR) The Morgue - 2008 ** 1/2



Straight to DVD sort of tells you how rubbish this film is going to be even before you start. But for some people like me, effectively being told a film is dire isn't enough to actually stop me watching it. As one IMDB reviewer said, the plot is awful, the acting is totally unnatural and the ending is so obvious that you probably know it even before you press play.

We follow a weird college girl in her night job working as a cleaner at a morgue with only the security man to talk to (who seems to prefer the company of a bottle of scotch to her anyway).

A couple and their daughter break down near the morgue so of course are welcomed in by the girl, followed by an almost comotose man and his friend who appear to have been in some sort of accident. They all want help and so after what seems an eternity of trying to find a connected phone they appear to be on the right track. The girl then goes off to the bathroom to show the woman an impressive looking bloodstain that never seems to fade, and then later on bumps into a hooded figure with a scalpel who looks like he wants to chop her up into bits.

More than the stupid plot, the acting was ridiculous and completely wooden as though the actors had been told to improvise without knowing anything about the actual story.

Ridiculous film.


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