Something Wicked Is Brewing In This ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ Clip [Exclusive]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Epic Pictures and Dread will release The Mortuary Assistant, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game, in theaters this Friday, February 13th.

Directed by Jeremiah Kipp, The Mortuary Assistant follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens (Willa Holland), who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor (Paul Sparks), and her own buried trauma—racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.”

Dread Central has an exclusive clip from the film in which the mortuary lights go out, and Holland’s character goes off in search of light. Meanwhile, the audience catches a small glimpse of the horror that’s about to ensue. It’s a great cliffhanger moment.

“Horror movies allow us to talk about difficult things, but in a safe way,” says Kipp. “I’ve always found the world to be difficult but horror movies to be fun, and in that spirit, here’s a clip of the movie where Rebecca Owens is trying to go about her work, and the lights go out.

“We introduce some of the elements from the game, such as letting strips and sigils, but we also highlight the threat just waiting to spring on Rebecca. The corpse is played by Karen Marie Clark, who had her own medical procedure in the form of a kidney replacement not long before principal photography. Art imitates life, life imitates art. Karen cared about the scene just as much as I did, and those eyes of hers are not a special effect. She did that in her audition, and I immediately said, ‘We have our dead body.’ Karen and I called her Mrs. Brewster, and I was honored that she creeped out the audiences at San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic-Con when we shared this clip.

“I hope you see her in your nightmares.”