Movie

The Mortuary Assistant

2026 · 91 min

A clammy, disorienting night-shift descent where reality keeps slipping, leaving you uneasy and second-guessing what's real.

Tagline: Alone with the dead.
Overview: Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, tense and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, madness, addiction, trauma
Content: Strong violence, gore and language. Mild sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
addiction
trauma
fate
Places: workplace
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild