The Boneyard (1991)
4/10
Fun
5 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Alley Oates (Deborah Rose) and detective Jersey Callum (Ed Nelson) and Gordon Mullin (James Eustermann are trying to find the killer in a horrifying child murder case when a tip leads them to the mortuary of the prime suspect, Chen (Robert Yun Ju Ahn). They find three mummified corpses that he claims are demons called kyoshi that can only be sated with the taste of human flesh, something he's been feeding them as part of his mortician career. Once he's arrested, the demons start looking for their own food, locking everyone inside the mortuary and possessing the coroner's secretary, Mrs. Poopinplatz (Phyllis Diller), as well as her poodle Floofsoms - played by Binnie, who was also in The Man With Two Brains, Ruthless People and most famously appeared as Gonk in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark - transforming her and it into the creatures that you remember from the VHS box art.

Also: Norman Fell with a ponytail, conducting an autopsy on a suicide case named Dana (Denise Young) who suddenly wakes up screaming. If that's not crazy enough, Fell was the third choice for the role behind Alice Cooper and Warren Zevon.

Directed and written by James Cummins, who took his special effects skills and added in make-up effects from Bill Corso to go wild. Cummins did the effects on House and this aims to outdo that one. This is an unconventional film, one in which the heroine has to overcome the trauma of losing her child and having ovarian cancer, all while not being the typical expective young female lead.

I've stared at the box art for this movie for years and somehow never watched it. I'm glad that I finally did, as while the start of the story is a slow burn, it eventually remembers that it's a VHS rental movie, a popcorn horror film that should do all it can to make you laugh and scream out loud.
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