 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1983 film Mausoleum and at the moment when I'm recording this it is available for streaming on the shutter streaming service now I will say there will be spoilers in this since it's an older film But a lot of you may not have seen it. So if you haven't this is a definite recommendation for me It's one of those movies though. Just so you know, that's so bad It's good and I love finding those types of gems and this is a gem The 80s seems like it's that time period that just keeps on giving with these so bad It's good films because they were green lighting pretty much anything especially when it came to horror movies And I'm so thankful for that. I know a lot of other people out there are as well. So Let's get down to it Mausoleum 1983 this was directed by Michael Dugan who did other films such as Super Seal and Raging Hormones. I don't know It was written by Robert Barrick and Robert Madero who did Wrote white hot all tied up Camp Utopia and battered. That's Robert Madero not Robert Barrick He didn't write any other stuff and Catherine Rosenwink was also involved in the writing of this one I don't know why they needed so many people to write on this script because It's not like it's good. I mean, it's definitely like a terrible script There's a good story idea there, but it's not executed well at all the dialogue is terrible There's a lot of plot holes. It's just kind of like meanders, but there's a there's a good core concept It's just they decided not to flush that out properly and do like a good film They just decided to do a crappy film, but I'm not complaining. I'm all for it This film was one of the ones that actually fell victim to the whole video nasties thing in the UK So even though it came out in 83 it only actually got a release in 1998 in the UK, so that sucks for them But during that time it actually won a special jury prize at the Paris film festival of sci-fi and fantasy When it originally came out that is not in 1998 So yeah, but yeah Sorry, I was thinking about something else The opening credits of this getting right into it the opening credits are terrible They they take so long and it's just showing that graveyard in the background with the credits Just gradually like coming from the background and up and just continually like this like awful I have not seen credits like that Look that bad and honestly a lot of the film feels and looks like it's from the 70s and not the 80s I know the 83 is not super far into the 80s But there are other movies from 83 and 82 and 81 that look like they're from the 80s This one looks like it's from the 70s and this intro credit thing does not help at all with that situation The smoke in the graveyard looks unbelievably terrible on this and it looks even worse than your typical 80s effects Where it's showing like the mausoleum with like that kind of like cut out smoke effect just on the building Oh my gosh It's so terrible, but it makes me laugh and to be honest There were many times during this film that I laughed because the things were so laughable Obviously, they weren't intentionally that way, but I'm glad they were that way I actually dug the color usage of this when they go inside the mausoleum that itself looked really good They designed it well and the coloration was really cool. They had like some nice purple in there They had some nice green. I think they had some blue at one point So the color usage was really cool. It's not quite Argento Level color usage, but there were things that actually look good in this film and to that There was actually good camera work in this film There were some very inspired looking camera shots and I was surprised by that So it's not that it's a total piece of trash. There are some technical components to it that are pulled off very very well It's just you know the story of the dialogue the acting for that matter also just not so hot Why so why was there a random dude in the beginning down in the mausoleum? I don't understand that because I guess it didn't really matter though because his head ended up exploding Which I'm glad he was down there because the head explosion early on is a cool fun scene So I'm all for the fact that this dude was randomly down in that mausoleum But once again, you know, there are plot holes in this a lot of things that don't make sense And this is one of those clear things that does not make sense I guess maybe he was like a groundskeeper gardener there. I don't know but his head exploding was it looked good I put down the no med family in this one if nobody saw Immediately in this film that no med is demon spelled backwards Then you haven't seen troll too. So No, I'm joking about that, but I picked up on that immediately I'm sure a lot of people do when they watch this film It's such a overused thing where the name is something spelled backwards and No one's named no med so it makes you look at it backwards So they I think they thought they were being clever, but they're clearly not being very clever The dialogue in acting is so bad So bad, but it makes for some really fun and funny moments in this especially The guy who plays Ben the gardener for Susan and Oliver. Oh my gosh His acting so terrible so weird and creepy at the same time He might be my favorite character for that reason. Oh or Elise I think her name was Elise the the maid that they had she was really funny too Actually, I think of a lot of the acting she was one of the better actresses on the in the movie But that's not saying a whole lot because you know, there wasn't much good acting in this I Like how the reaction to the guy in the burning car in this is to just stare at the fire I mean when the car caught on fire because Susan with her green glowing eyes Which by the way the green glowing eyes look cool when she lights it up And I like I understand the guy's drunk at that point But him just like turning around and just like looking at the fire in the backseat of the car Or I think is on the trunk and then spread to the backseat of the car Which is it didn't make sense like no one would do that No one even if you're drunk you wouldn't be like oh fire There is no way Susan is so dense that she can't see Ben is a super creeper now There are moments where like Susan is Susan and then there are moments where Susan is possessed by the demon now There are plenty of moments where she's herself And she's not picking up on the fact that Ben the gardener is being a super creeper and wants to get with her And I refuse to believe that she is that dense of a person that she's not picking up on those things But then things obviously get fun when the demon aspect takes over and that demons like oh this guy's into this chick Let's lure him in and kill him and that makes for a good time But that gets to another thing which is Our demons always so horny like this demon is super horny in this and I know that's kind of like a way to like lure People but you can just kill them, you know like outright I mean the car situation shows that that could just be done I guess maybe the demons just been cooped up so long just wants to have a good time I guess that's my assumption someone put a comment down there and let me know your thoughts on it This movie has some excessively long shots and that kind of makes me feel like they need to stretch it to a certain run time So I could really do out without some of that stuff For some people maybe that adds a little bit to the charm of how bad this film is But I really would have liked if someone make a kind of a better cut of this cutting some of those longer scenes down Because it's not necessary at all like it will still be a amazingly bad film when you cut that down I love how needless the montage of Ben working is that's so funny he's very good at incessantly whacking at a stump I wrote down because He's just swinging this axe at this stump not getting barely anywhere He does it for a long time then goes off and does other things like reading and sleeping and Doing a little bit of other work, but then he goes back to the stump And he's just whacking at it again, and it's like what is he trying to accomplish? You get the idea that this gardener is just there to hang out like he's just Stretching the workout and just when they cut when Oliver and Susan come home It's like oh you didn't get that much done, and he's like oh well It just ended up taking a lot longer than I than I expected. That's just what it seems like to me The music they play when Elsie that's the maids name The music they play when Elsie freaks out is so weird and so Against trying to convey horror in a horrific moment when she goes up and sees like the green smoke Coming out of the bedroom that music it's like almost like Benny Hill type music like it doesn't match At all and it's like what were they thinking when they put this music to those scenes like it's it's baffling And it only happens at that point of the film, and I'm just like I don't get this But that goes with part of the charm of how bad this is to be honest The hypnosis freak out is a lot of fun and it reminded me a little bit of like a Nicholas Cage type freak out Not quite as good, but it you know was getting there when Susan's being hypnotized by the doctor Dr. Andrews I believe and she starts flipping out That was fun and funny, and I dig that moment. Maybe one of my favorite moments probably Ken Dr. Andrews open his eyes all the way was one of my questions The moment where he was talking to dr. Roney on the phone after he you know gleaned that Susan's a problem He's talking to her and the whole time. He's like this Like if you watch that scene and you like really pay attention like he doesn't open his eyes very far at all He's like squinting the entire time. I don't know if he was trying to read like Cards behind the camera that someone was holding up with his lines. I don't know It was weird Oliver doesn't seem concerned enough about the large amount of blood splatter on the phone That was another funny thing to me when the guy showed up to to deliver some plants for gardening And she's like oh you have the wrong place, but you should come in and call your supervisor and tell him It's the wrong place Then she kills him with her her demon green eyes, and then the blood splatters all over the phone Well when Oliver comes in he finds it and he's just like oh honey, are you okay? That was a lot of blood splatter He should have been Panicking when he saw that had been like was there a home invasion. Did she cut herself terribly is she dead? Like he's just so nonchalant. He's just like oh honey. Are you okay? Yeah, I see all this blood here crazy Showing Susan just walking around the mall Unnecessary the part where they're kind they're talking about her I understand like showing her but like they showed her a lot They kept cutting to her because it's like when Oliver and dr. Andrews are talking I think that's who yeah, it's them and they just keep showing her just walking around the mall like I like the mall scene Ultimately, and I'll talk about that in a second But just showing her continually just walking around the mall. It's like unbelievably pointless terrible The falling death of the dude from the gallery was amazing the whole scene with the gallery is funny in itself She's just like I want this, you know piece of artwork, and he's like oh, it's not available Well, here's the thing if it's not available Why is it sitting there on an easel in the front of the store? That doesn't make any sense they got but the guy playing that gallery dude was really funny the way he did his acting Especially when he was yelling after Susan after she stole the painting But then his death his falling death was great Loved it especially when they showed the aftermath of it with that piece of artwork through his stomach and out his back pretty awesome and That's the thing about this the practical effects are pretty solid. It's just it's just not a good movie But like I said, I love that I like how Oliver points to Susan getting the painting as a clear indicator There's something wrong with her like he uses the fact that look at the painting You got like and he thinks you bought it at that point But like he uses that as an indicator of like her taste in a painting that like there's something mentally wrong with her Like this is what I'm talking about about the writing like the writing is bad You should be pointing to something else definitely and there's a lot of just like doesn't seem believable at all Like I know it's a possession story and that's not necessarily believable in the first place But you have to create a realistic feeling within the world You're creating and a lot of what the characters do how they act what they say it does not convey that at all How are there so many bodies on the spider are so many thick spider webs on the bodies that are in that weird room in The in the nomad house that's what I understand the people she literally just killed I assume it's that same week or day even like They're totally covered in thick spider webs. That makes no sense. That's just another one of these things of like Major plot hole, but you know just charming The portion of Susan changing at the end is Unbelievably excessive That's another one of those scenes that really just needs to be cut down because it's not even like funny enjoyable at that point It's just annoying and kind of hard to look at because it's like two image over two images Overlaid like one image on top of another image and can't even fully see what's going on It kind of was really messing with my eyes and there's this really annoying noise that's being done the whole time Funny thing just side note when I see all the rats in the mausoleum I don't really think that like oh my god rats. It's so dirty or it's scary I think those things are really cute like I legitimately think rats are cute I think all rodents are cute to be honest I had mice in my house at one point and I was just like oh, they're so cute when I caught them and released them elsewhere, but That's just me but the other thing is like the rats are never doing anything menacing in this They're just hanging out and eating and just being there. So You know, they're not conveying what they wanted them to convey at least not for me And then the very end of this I wrote how the hell is been the gardener in the graveyard I guess we're to assume that he's now some sort of graveyard Attendant keeper. I don't know But that's another one of his plot whole things like how is that possible? He was just a normal dude and then he got killed There's no indicator that he's like now possessed by a demon or whatever But maybe they threw that in there to be like well, maybe he could be possessed Maybe there could be something else to this guy. We could leave that there at the end to be like a potential sequel lead-in Which to be honest, I would love to see a sequel Let's do this. Let's do this now This is actually a type of possession film I can get behind typically I don't like possession movies like at all But there are ones here and there that I'm good with and one of the one done like this Where it's so weird and it's so bad that that it's funny I could definitely get behind that type of possession film. So I'm all for it I love it. And like I said like even the the base concept of this is actually a solid concept with the idea of a Demon being passed down in the family to the firstborn female of each generation like That's cool. Like that's a good concept. It's just You know, it's a crappy movie. It's like they didn't use the concept to make a good film But I'm thankful that that's what happened So there's a main idea in this as well that's kind of been used a lot in horror and that's kind of the idea of Do you truly know the inner person that you're in a relationship with and the fears of what happens if the person you think You know, isn't that person and that's been done in horror so many so many times and it's done here And it's done super on the nose in this which you know, you expect for a film like this Yeah, I mean just wanted to point that out real quick But in the end this is one of those films that you watch it and even while you're watching it You you're texting your friends just being like look if you have shutter you have got to watch this movie This is one of those ones that kind of goes like socially viral Where you're just kind of like you just spread it to another person and then they spread it to someone else And it just keeps going and going and going and it gets like a cult status So I think we should get this going. Let's definitely get it going with mausoleum While I was watching it I texted my buddy rich and I because I know he has shutter and I was like dude You need to watch mausoleum this movie is terrible, but it's so much fun because it's so terrible I believe this is a vinegar syndrome film by the way, too It's I think it has a blue kind of recent blu-ray release on vinegar syndrome So if you want to purchase it, which I feel like it's going on my list for that I think it should be available on vinegar syndrome's website But anyway, I have to rate this twice basically because this is how I do it since it's so bad It's good. So as an actual like film film in the whole pantheon of films out of five stars. I'm gonna give it a One-star rating. It is not a good film at all even though it gets to the one because of you know the camera work actually being pretty good and the base concept but What do I give it as far as a so bad? It's good film out of five stars. I'm gonna give it a Solid three and a half stars for so bad. It's good. It's not quite a four or anything, but three and a half I definitely recommend this if you're into bad movies like this is a must in my opinion So anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out Put some comments down there about your thoughts about this will geek out about it But do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button if you like any videos I do this one or any other ones That's your best way to repay me and it's totally painless Literally takes you a second and it means a lot for my channel because I'm trying to grow And if you are gonna subscribe or you're already subscribed Make sure you hit the notification bell because that way you know when I have new videos going up or also when I'm live Streaming because we talk about some fun stuff when we live stream Always great time, but thank you everyone for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal