Mortuary Academy

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Wayne K Mortuary Academy is what you'd get if a mad scientist shoved Animal House, Police Academy and Re-Animator into a blender to create the ultimate 80s sci-fi horror comedy. The premise is fairly simple, centring on 2 brothers that have to graduate as morticians in order to get their inheritance. I liked how they made the brothers very different in terms of personality and temperate, rather than making both reluctant pushovers or greedy slimeballs. The cast of characters is pretty small, and most of them are given their own quirky traits and times to shine. I especially liked Abbot, a supposedly reformed criminal with the worlds shortest temper. The film has a fair amount of jokes that hit, but the ones that don't just feel painful, and there's long stretches when nothing funny whatsoever happens. If you're a fan of the typical raunchy comedies of the 80s, Mortuary Academy won't do much you haven't seen before. But for the occasional funny moments and the fairly brief runtime, I'd say its worth at least a single viewing. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/24 Full Review Audience Member Most of the time, you'll be wishing Bartel had directed. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Way better than you would think--the writing is very consistently funny, and so are Bartel, Woronov, and the supporting cast. Necrophilia is always hilarious, but this is the definitive comedy on the subject. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member In an attempt to capture the magic from lead actors' Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov's film Eating Raoul, this concocted attempt at humor in the world of the Mortuary business infused with that flavor of 80's slapstick fails miserably. Mortuary Academy is about to brothers who are forced to go through Mortuary school in order to collect their inheritance from their recently deceased uncle. Unfunny schenanigans ensue at the mortuary academy, which is ran by Paul Bartel's character (usual Bartel niche where he is very prim and proper, but a little necrophilia is added into the mix, which leads to some amusing scenes) and the head professor is Mary Woronov (basically playing her usual wild cougar in heat character, which isn't necessarily a bad thing). The film tries real hard to be funny and managed to succeed about every 15 minutes, thus leading to about 5 or really funny parts amidst a film full of ignorant gags. I will say both Paul and Mary (who collaborated quite often on other things including the aforementioned Eating Raoul, as well as Chopping Mall and Death Race 2000) were the best part about this film, which they are prominent throughout thankfully. The side cast, and the "supposed" leads that play the Grim Brothers are pretty dull at times. The black gentleman with the Jheri curl hair is quite unremarkable until the very end of the movie when he tries to pick up a rather large and much older appearing black woman who then slaps him and refers to him as a Titty Freak, to which he replies with "Titty Freak? I ain't no Titty Freak!" It's better to watch this scene than to listen to me, because it redeemed a lot of the film and was remarkably hilarious. OK film to kill time with, but nothing special. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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