Make sure you lock your doors and windows and close the curtains before you watch this video. Perhaps it's best not to watch it alone too. It's really spooky as one might expect. After all it's the night shift and it's the morgue.... Martin (Ewan McGregor)is newly appointed as security officer at the morgue. Working all through the night he has to do the rounds every hour. I'm not sure why. Dark passageways, flickering fluorescent tubes, moths fluttering in light shades....add to this the anatomical specimens, the formaldehyde baths, the cadavers under white sheets....this is Martin's world. Not to mention a previous nightwatchman who was expelled. Why? Because he "did it with them" This idea of necrophilia horrifies and astonishes Martin.
"And very soon", he is told "You'll smell the morgue in your breath"
The atmosphere of the morgue is well developed and nearly all the characters are suspicious looking individuals. When a muder is committed the murderer arranges the evidence which tends to incriminate Martin. As the horror mounts anatomical surgical tools are introduced with the possibility of dismembering Martin and his girl friend. If taken seriously this is real edge of the seat viewing reminiscent of the old chain saw movies. Ewan McGregor as the central character manages to maintain his character to the end while his buddy a mischievous prankster adds some comic relief. The medical staff are an unhappy looking lot, perhaps understandably so. It's probably not a film you would want to see twice, but as a thriller it's worth a look.
WARNING: Don't open the windows until morning!!
"And very soon", he is told "You'll smell the morgue in your breath"
The atmosphere of the morgue is well developed and nearly all the characters are suspicious looking individuals. When a muder is committed the murderer arranges the evidence which tends to incriminate Martin. As the horror mounts anatomical surgical tools are introduced with the possibility of dismembering Martin and his girl friend. If taken seriously this is real edge of the seat viewing reminiscent of the old chain saw movies. Ewan McGregor as the central character manages to maintain his character to the end while his buddy a mischievous prankster adds some comic relief. The medical staff are an unhappy looking lot, perhaps understandably so. It's probably not a film you would want to see twice, but as a thriller it's worth a look.
WARNING: Don't open the windows until morning!!