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Rest in Pieces (1987)
(7/10): Still not good but it's such a perplexing and enamouring experience that it almost entranced me by how confused it was making me.
The film opens with blaring music, the typical eighties vibe, but it was just frames of a couple as they were getting off a plane and making their way through an airport, but it's not like they were posing its more like a slideshow of them arriving.
Then it finally cuts to actual moving pictures or in this case, video!
This couple is going to her aunt's estate as she is now grown enough to receive the last will and testament of her aunt's fortune.
She ends up staying in her Aunt's old mansion but soon after begins seeing visions of her trying to kill her. To make matters worse there's a group of people that her aunt used to work with that are supposedly also interested and are in cahoots with one another.
Now comes the plot twist that still somehow doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.
Her aunt was in an institution where she committed suicide and they found a book with the records of institution, but they are also shocked to find that every single one of her aunts past coworkers were also in the same institution and all committed suicide and one even worked at the institution and all of them have their date of death already have been passed, meaning that they're all dead.
They get manipulated into committing suicide because they then free themselves from the mortal life and then become more free as the undead and she is next in line for a self sacrifice.
So it's a movie that has people being murdered, signs of hauntings and a mystery going on which makes it feel that it's indecisive on whether or not it's a slasher, haunted house movie or a Whodunnit, which makes it seem like it's in its own state of being which, for me, ultimately made it somewhat entertaining.
This one is a gem but it's also very much an acquired taste.
Rest in Pieces (1987)
(7/10): Still not good but it's such a perplexing and enamouring experience that it almost entranced me by how confused it was making me.
The film opens with blaring music, the typical eighties vibe, but it was just frames of a couple as they were getting off a plane and making their way through an airport, but it's not like they were posing its more like a slideshow of them arriving.
Then it finally cuts to actual moving pictures or in this case, video!
This couple is going to her aunt's estate as she is now grown enough to receive the last will and testament of her aunt's fortune.
She ends up staying in her Aunt's old mansion but soon after begins seeing visions of her trying to kill her. To make matters worse there's a group of people that her aunt used to work with that are supposedly also interested and are in cahoots with one another.
Now comes the plot twist that still somehow doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.
Her aunt was in an institution where she committed suicide and they found a book with the records of institution, but they are also shocked to find that every single one of her aunts past coworkers were also in the same institution and all committed suicide and one even worked at the institution and all of them have their date of death already have been passed, meaning that they're all dead.
They get manipulated into committing suicide because they then free themselves from the mortal life and then become more free as the undead and she is next in line for a self sacrifice.
So it's a movie that has people being murdered, signs of hauntings and a mystery going on which makes it feel that it's indecisive on whether or not it's a slasher, haunted house movie or a Whodunnit, which makes it seem like it's in its own state of being which, for me, ultimately made it somewhat entertaining.
This one is a gem but it's also very much an acquired taste.