The Mortuary Collection-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

Plot Summary: Sam applies for a job at the mortuary. Before she takes the job, she first wants the mortician to tell her some horrific tales. 

Everyone loves a good story, don't they? Ever since we were kids we've enjoyed being told stories and being fascinated by them. As adults, we still love stories; they sure used to put a spark in our otherwise mundane existence.

But when we want to hear new stories, do we simply go up to a person we've just met and demand they tell us a story? Probably not.

However in The Mortuary Collection when a woman named Sam comes to a mortuary managed by an elderly man named Montgomery Dark for work and then demands he tell her some stories, it seems a bit of a too convenient start of an anthology. The stories being told don't flow organically one after another like A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio. Now that was an anthology well put together with some pretty scary stories too.

The stories didn't just jump out randomly but were well incorporated into the main storyline, in this case, Rod's, who is a radio DJ. He attended the calls, remembered or made up stories according to the interactions.

Over here, Sam's insistence to hear a better story is what is the basic setting of the movie.

THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Movie Plot 

Anyway, the movie begins with newspapers strewn about the escape of a mental patient from the asylum. We get to see a board for Raven's End Mortuary with a Help wanted sign.

A young boy, curious about the house approaches the mortuary and then is frightened when he meets the mortician. He's a charming fellow albeit creepy looking. The boy starts to run away but Montgomery calls him back because he's dropped his camera. The boy thinks, nope, not worth it. The old man has germs on the camera now and he doesn't want it anymore. The boy flees.

Montgomery returns indoors where he is managing a funeral for a young boy. He gives a speech about raising the dead that is met with disapproval by the attendees. He immediately collects himself and ends the funeral.

Later on, a woman enters the mortuary and the first thing she does is start touching everything. Montgomery stops her from snooping and thinks she's a new customer. But she's actually answering the help wanted sign. She takes one looks at the books and wonders if it is about all the customers and how they died. Montgomery explains it is much more than that and more about why they died. He makes her sign the contract and Sam sits down on the chair like she owns the place and immediately demands her new employer entertain her with stories.

Montgomery wants to impress Sam with stories that he thinks will make her fascinated with the mortuary.

He tells her a story of a woman in the 1950s who heads to the bathroom. The light is off and when she turns on the switch, she finds something slimy on it. Outside, a man that is quite taken with her, invites her to the terrace. The woman rolls her eyes and then goes to sit on the toilet to check out the wallets she had pickpocketed. She dumps the empty wallets and keeps stuffing cash into her dress.

Afterwards, she checks herself in the mirror and is about to leave when she notices the medicine cabinet door ajar. Her curiosity gets the best of her and she tries to pry it open but it doesn't budge. Now she has to know what is inside the cabinet. What do people keep in medicine cabinets? Medicines? Cotton pads? Floss?

For some reason, the woman isn't satisfied with cash but now wants to steal toothpicks or something. She removes a nail file from her dress that apparently has a lot of inner pockets and begins to work on the door but she accidentally cuts her finger. Now she needs to get in the cabinet to find bandages at least.

But to her horror she sees a tentacle protruding out and shutting the door. Horrified, she pulls open the door and is shocked to see a large space behind the cabinet with slime oozing everywhere and the tentacles of a monster. She tries to run away, but I mean, come on, she can't really outrun the tentacles of a monster, can she? She is immediately captured and pulled up. The monster tries to squeeze her through the medicine cabinet but she's too big. She is folded backwards and pulled in, thus killing her.

Back in the present, Sam isn’t too impressed with the story. She wants more thrills in the story. Montgomery tries to explain the moral of the story but Sam wants a story with a twist on it.

The older man is only too happy to oblige.

He tells her he is going to tell her a story about how it is better to be safe than sorry. He's talking about prophylactics.

He tells the story of a college frat boy in the 1960s called Jake who talks about women empowerment and stuff but actually just wants to pass out condoms to girls so that they are ready to mingle with the guys when they attend the party.

His timid friend tries to chat up with a girl with glasses called Sandra but makes a fool of himself. Jake comes over and invites her to the party and she agrees to come.

In his room, Jake is working out while looking at a picture of himself as a chubby kid. He never hopes to get fat again.

At the party, Jake looks all over for her and Sandra appears, no longer requiring glasses to see. Instant LASIK? She doesn't waste any time enticing Jake and leads him upstairs.

When they are getting intimate, Sandra asks him if he's worried about all the boys who have disappeared in the town and if he suspects she could be a serial killer. Jake doesn't really care at that point if she is because he is too eager. Sandra hands him over a condom and even though Jake showed support for it before, he hates wearing them and discreetly gets rid of it.

The next morning Sandra has left and written her number on his mirror with lipstick. Jake rubs it out and heads to the bathroom but thinks he looks weird. His friend points out he has a weird abdominal rash and Jake brushes it off as friction burns. But when he sees it spreading, goes to the doctor who is perplexed after seeing the lab results. He examines him with a stethoscope and hears growling in Jake's stomach. He excuses himself but like a responsible doctor who doesn't want to keep anything from his patient, leaves behind the file.

Jake grabs the file and opens it and is shocked to discover he is pregnant. Even more, he sees his stomach protruding. He heads back to his room and calls Sandra's number. It takes him a few tries because he blurred the digits, but really not to that point that it is unreadable. Still, it takes Jake some time to call probably because of his foggy, pregnancy brain.

Sandra agrees to see him and Jake hides the fact the reason behind the meeting. He tries to conceal his veiny, pregnant belly but his friends come up to celebrate his victory oversleeping with over 67 girls. Jake is made to sit on a chair and it is hoisted with great difficulty so that Jake can put up his pennant.

But just then, a slimy ooze spurts out of him, spraying everyone. They hand him his car keys and he drives over to meet Sandra at her house.

One step outside, and Sandra's father groans. He can't believe his daughter did it again. He calls his wife who is pretty much sick of Sandra's shenanigans. They call Sandra who accuses Jake of not wearing a condom when she explicitly asked him to. Jake tells her how he was fat and worked so hard on himself to become the Casanova he is. Sandra doesn't buy into the sob story and calls up another guy.

Jake experiences labour pains and Sandra's parents prepare for the baby to be delivered. He asks where the baby is going to come from considering, well, he's a guy. Sandra's mother tells him it is going to come from the same way it got in. Jake freaks out but it is of no use.

The baby comes and Jake's most prized appendage explodes and he dies. The baby is wrapped in a blanket and Sandra's mother takes the baby to the nursery that already has plenty of cribs inside with monstrous babies doing goo-goo-ga-ga.

Back in the present Sam demands another story, seemingly unimpressed by the stories Montgomery is narrating. The elderly man obliges and tells her another story, this time-based in the 1970s.

A groom is at his wedding and is clearly besotted by his bride who still has a veil on her face. Soon enough she turns into a hideous creature and the groom wakes up.

His name is Wendall and he was having a nightmare. His wife Carol is pretty much in a vegetative state and he has to take complete care of her.

As much as he loves his wife, he's also grown tired of his mundane routine.

The doctor comes in for a routine check-up and seeing Wendall's condition, gives him an idea to end his and his wife's misery. Pills, what else.

Wendall reminisces about the happy times with his wife but decides his wife may never recover and he needs to move on with his life.

He makes a delicious dinner of orange-coloured soup and dresses up his wife in a dress. He pleads with his wife to give some indication she's still there but of course, she doesn't.

Wendall even gifts her a small statue of an arctic hare, her favourite, but she still doesn't budge.

In front of her, Wendall mixes the tablets in her soup and begins to feed her. Just then she moves her fingers, Wendall realizes what he's doing and realizes his wife may just come back to her normal state. He performs the Heimlich manoeuvre on her and she falls face-first on the table.

But whoops, the arctic hare statue was exactly in that spot. It goes under her skill and she dies in her blood and vomit.

Wendall realizes that he's done a terrible deed and calls up the doctor for advice.

The doctor was okay with giving pills but not exactly excited about helping him afterwards. He tells him to never call him again.

Wendall realizes he needs to dispose of the body.

He finds a chest of odd stuff and photo albums and begins to clean it out.

He dumps Carol into it but the lid won't close. So now he has no choice but to cut her up.

The other arctic harr statues pass judgment while Wendall chops up his wife. They can't believe what he's doing to the woman who collected them and put them all around the house.

Soon enough the deeds are done and Wendall drags the chest to the elevator and makes sure no one gets inside with him.

But perhaps he should have let a neighbour in because now that he is all alone, his wife decides to haunt him.

Blood begins to ooze from the chest and when the elevator stops, the chest opens, there are droplets of blood everywhere and his wife has turned into a ghoul who wants to kiss him.

A nosy neighbour calls the police to help Wendall and they find him in a catatonic state, shocked that he was kissed by a ghoul.

THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Ending Explained with Spoilers!

In the present, Montgomery thinks he's told the best tale ever but Sam thinks she can top him.

She also reveals she didn't come here for the job and stops him from sending the small coffin of the dead boy into the incinerator.

She tells him if he's heard of the Babysitter killer?

On a dark, stormy night, Sam is at a house where the parents have gone and the kid is upstairs sleeping. A call from the parents informs her that they will be late and that Sam can take whatever they want from the fridge.

She goes about cooking a feast for herself. Chopping vegetables, listening to music and dancing about.

On the TV there's news about a mental patient who has escaped the asylum and who targets houses with kids. The killer apparently removes kids teeth and keeps them as trophies and is also a cannibal.

Of course, Sam isn't present to hear it because she's dancing in the kitchen.

Just then she enters the living room and sees a man sitting on the couch. She goes into the kitchen to grab a knife but the man has already followed her there.

She tries to evade him and goes upstairs as the man tries to find the kid. Sam manages to push him off the stairs and then drops the TV on his head.

When the parents come back they are shocked to see a body near the staircase. The father props up the TV and then reveals it is not just any man but their babysitter Sam. They wonder what happened to their kid and rush upstairs but can't find him in his room.

The smoke alarm goes off in the kitchen and they realize what the woman was actually cooking. It was their son.

The parents scream.

The Mortuary Collection Ending Explained

In the present, Sam reveals she doesn't want to leave anything incomplete. She came to the Mortuary to retrieve the boy's teeth because she's quite eager to be called the Tooth Fairy Killer.

But now that Montgomery knows the truth she stabs him.

Montgomery laughs and Sam's suspicions about his age come true. Montgomery has been alive for many years because he's not full of blood like normal people but full of embalming liquid.

He laughs as he explains that she will have to pay for what she did. All of her victims emerge from the books laying around the basement and the charred children attack Sam and rip her to pieces. One of them is happy to get his tooth back.

Montgomery is happy to have transferred his responsibilities elsewhere and thinks he can now finally leave the mortuary.

He steps out and explodes.

Later, Sam awakens to find herself all out together and filled with embalming fluid. She's now the new mortician.

Much later, the small boy who had lost his camera in the first scene is seated in front of her and taking her interview.

She's all dressed up and asks him to stay for dinner. Of course, what the poor kid doesn't know is that he is the dinner.

The End.

Scare scale:3/5

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