YMMV / The Mortuary Collection

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Jake's fate deserved? Having sex with someone whilst lying that you're using birth control is beyond a shitty thing to do (taking off a condom in the middle of sex is considered assault in some jurisdictions), but did he really deserve that? On the one hand, he was more than willing to leave Sandra to deal with the consequences that he ended up having to deal with, but the fact that he's a man ensures that it was far harsher on him that it would have been on her. Subverted: Stealthing often results in pregnancy or a STD/STI(AIDS). Both can result in death. Women, even today, can die during pregnacy AND childbirth. An even if they keep the pregnancy and everything goes well, they will likely have to quit college to take care of the baby. Jake did the same to sixty seven women. His selfish need to have unprotected sex could have potencially ruined the lives of many women that only consented to safe sex. It is unlikely that neither Sandra or any of his other victims would have consented to engage in unprotected sex with Jake, so he also was a serial sexual predator. He ended up going through what his other victims likely had to go through themselves.
  • The reaction of Sandra and her parents is also interesting; she's rightly furious at Jake for lying and having unprotected sex with her — but she also seems very amused by his suffering, and at the end of the segment we see her mother put the resulting 'offspring' in an attic with several other mutant babies. So where did they come from? Did Sandra give birth to them, or — given her parents' knowledge of what to do by this point, and their underreaction to Jake's gruesome death — were they also birthed by the unlucky fathers? And were they conceived in the same manner as Jake's baby, via unprotected sex?
• Awesome Moments: Sam proves that she's much tougher than the average babysitter who finds herself the target of a sadistic maniac, putting up one heck of a fight against the intruder. Subverted when it turns out that she's actually the sadistic maniac but then it goes back into awesome when you realise what a good fight the real Sam put up against her!
  • Taking The Reveal into account, what happened was that Sam woke up with severe concussion that's left him so disoriented he doesn't know where he is, caused by a head wound that was expected to kill him. Upon hearing Logan's mother on the answering machine, he gains his wits enough to surmise that the girl "helping" him is a dangerous child murderer and he needs to find and protect Logan before it's too late. He braves even more punishment such as having his fingers degloved in a meat grinder, fighting Charlotte with the resilience of the slasher villain he's framed to look like. And after all that, he's still too kind to actually kill her.
• Awesome Music: The fantastic soundtrack, consisting of Find Me in the Fall, Fast and Sweet (featured in the trailer), Deep in the Sea, Little Love and Suicide, all written and performed by the Mondo Boys.
• Complete Monster: Charlotte Gibbons, the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy, is a twisted murderer who preys on children, with over ten victims murdered and cannibalized with a tooth removed as part of her trophy collection. Revealed as the "babysitter", under the guise of Sam, babysitting a boy named Logan, Charlotte murders the real babysitter and kills Logan before setting him in the oven for her dinner. Coming to the Raven's End mortuary to retrieve a trophy, she attempts to murder mortician Montgomery Dark before becoming the new keeper of the Mortuary and its stories, still preying on the children who fall into her clutches when she can.
• Creepy Awesome:
  • Montgomery Darke, a Creepy Mortician and seemingly immortal Deadpan Snarker, played by Clancy Brown.
  • Charlotte Gibbons as well, if you're Rooting for the Empire.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Between a man poisoning his wife, trying to save her, accidentally killing her, dismembering her, getting stuck in an elevator and going mad and then his doctor having his son murdered and cooked by a Serial Killer who cannibalises her victims, this film dances a merry jig across the line and still somehow manages to be hilariously funny in spite or in part because of all of the dark, twisted things that take place within it.
• Moral Event Horizon: We learn that Charlotte Gibbons crossed this a long time ago, being a ritualistic murderer of children, her pattern of violence apparently taking place with no sense of reason beyond her own enjoyment who collects a tooth from each of her victims. She even goes the mortuary where the funeral of her latest victim is taking place so that she can collect her prize.
• Nausea Fuel: Wendell feeding his wife porridge with an excess of sleeping pills ground up and mixed into it, then forcing her to throw it all back up. She then impales her head on a sharp statuette. Then he has to cut her into pieces with a chainsaw and she wakes up and screams as he's doing it (or at least he thinks she does). Then he's stuck in the lift with her as the place fills with blood and she emerges as a demon to give him a Forceful Kiss.
  • As if Charlotte killing and eating children wasn't enough, Dr. Kubler and his wife return home to find not just their actual babysitter reduced to a bloodied mess on the floor, but their child's charred remains in the oven.
  • That's not even getting into what happened to Jake. One thing in particular: given where the baby was coming out, when Jake’s “water” broke, what he ACTUALLY sprayed all over his frat brothers would have been…
• Nightmare Fuel: Well, no surprise here!
  • From Segment One, the idea that one of your friends or neighbours might have a tentacled eldritch abomination lurking in the bathroom cupboard should keep you awake at night. In fact, you might want to check that one hasn't taken up residence in yours! (Plus the awful way the woman's back breaks, she goes limp but is clearly still in great pain, and then is folded in half to get her through the cupboard door.)
  • From Segment Two, the idea of someone luring you into sexual parlance without full disclosure of the facts is definitely enough to make one profoundly uncomfortable, which makes Jake's ultimate fate arguably deserved. No less nightmare-inducing, however!
  • The monster baby that he produces is quite scary, especially since we don't properly see it. It's also laid in a room filled with cribs containing other monster babies. We don't know how many there are or how many Sandra will go on to produce!
  • From Segment Three, Wendell's life is as nightmarish as it is tragic. Imagine seeing someone you love slowly drain of all life and personality whilst still being physically alive and essentially a hollow shell. Imagine being in her position. Worse in that the segment opens with a dream of he and Carol's wedding when they were happy. Just as he is about to give his vows, everything falls silence, a darkness falls over the room and Carol wastes away into a zombie-like creature in front of him. Brrr.
  • Her being conscious and screaming as he cuts her apart would be enough to drive him mad with guilt, if he hasn't been already!
  • Finally "Sam"/Charlotte Gibbons. As a good-looking, seemingly pleasant young woman, she's just the kind of person you'd trust to look after your children. Sadly, she's an Axe-Crazy, psychopathic Sadist who murders and partially eats children and collects their teeth for seemingly no other reason because she can.
  • Although very satisfying, seeing her get consumed kicking and screaming by the animated carcasses of her own victims as they crawl out of their books is still pretty nightmarish.
• The Woobie: Being a completely innocent person who suffers vicious wounds at the hands of a psychopathic serial child murderer, it's very easy to feel sorry for the babysitter. Specifically, the real babysitter. Especially with how desperate he was to find and protect Logan, not knowing Logan was already killed and put in the oven.
  • Both Wendell and Carol in Segment Three, as she's in a state of permanent catatonia with no recovery in sight, and he's left caring for her and with a massive stack of medical debt from doing so - to the point that he had to sell the house and move them into a dingy apartment just to try keeping up with it. Not much wonder he was tempted by Dr. Krubel's medication offer, both to relieve his wife of her state of virtual non-being as well as his own dreary condition. And then the overdose apparently causes her to move for the first time in years, gripping Wendell's hand as he moves to give her the heimlich, successfully expelling the medication and potentially getting their lives back to normal... until her head falls forward and she impales herself on the arctic hare statuette he'd just bought for her.