Another Hole in the Head Festival 2009

MORGUE STORY is a Brazilian comedy that’s both deranged and finely crafted. Ana Argento, a creator of graphic novels with a personal history of broken relationships, meets two other bizarre characters in the morgue: Daniel Torres is a coroner with a bent for necrophilia; Tom is a cataleptic life insurance salesman. The dark secret behind our mortician and his lust for the cadaver involves his “method” that borrows from Haitian voodoo priests and a fresh supply of blowfish. He is clearly not a very nice man, but his neuroses and the comical intermingling of characters (including his mother and his psychologist) is wacky and well-written. MORGUE STORY is a phenomenal low budget film that pays hilarious homage to 1980’s horror flicks. The humor is served rare—dripping, in fact—and the dialogue is potential cult classic material. See this once and you’ll demand a second viewing to gather the quotes.--Mike Skurko