20 Recent Movies That Ruined INCREDIBLE Plots

3. The Mortuary Assistant

THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT
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Hollywood may be showing considerably greater respect to video games nowadays, but as this list has already proven, they still don't always get it right.

Though it doesn't boast a narrative as well thought out as Silent Hill 2, horror video game The Mortuary Assistant did nevertheless seem like an easy fit for a cinematic adaptation.

With the game being centered around a newly hired assistant at a haunted mortuary who fights to avoid becoming demonically possessed, a vibes-rich film shouldn't have been too tricky to pull off.

Yet despite firm performances from leads Willa Holland and Paul Sparks, The Mortuary Assistant film is a stamina-sapping snooze-fest - a deathly dull piece of work that lacks the eerie atmosphere and urgency of the source material, while failing to offer up characters worth rooting for.

Hollywood basically already pulled a similar concept off with the criminally underappreciated The Autopsy of Jane Doe years ago, so you're better off just watching that instead.

 
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