 Hey, you ready to watch this week's request by Jason Willis? Oh yeah, mausoleum. What did you just say? Mausoleum. Uh, it's mausoleum. No, it's pronounced mausoleum. You're just fucking wrong. Hey man, don't say I'm wrong. You'll be sorry. Or what? You'll put me in a mausoleum? Say it! Say mausoleum! You're gonna spill all the beer! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Ah! Say mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Say it! Say it! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! Mausoleum! No! Mausoleum! Today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. Today's movie is a Patreon request. 1983's Mausoleum! Before we get started, what are we drinking today? Gatlin's Fall Harvest Lager. Mausoleum was directed by Michael Duggan. He brought us such classics as Raging Hormones, The Adventures of Turkey Dude. That's gotta be a good one. And Super Seal. Super Seal! I like the name. Seal or something. Marjo Gortner's in this. He was in Star Crash, Earthquake, and Sidewinder 1. Ooh, that's good. Lot of classics there too. Oh man. Bobby Breesy was in this. She was in Goolies and Star Slammer. Holly's fucking weird movies. Norman Burton is also in this and he was in Bloodsport. Yeah. Planet of the Apes. Most likely an ape. And the towering inferno. Mausoleum starts off with 10-year-old Susan, attending her mother's funeral. She's there with her aunt, Cora. Susan's all distraught. Oh, mommy. So distraught where she just takes off and runs. What seems for miles is that it's super long. She sees this building in super bad, super imposed smoking fire. She goes into this building with the smoke in the fire. The mausoleum. Eerie and there's this like shadow of this figure. This bum kind of wanders in. What's a bum doing in the cemetery? You see that shadow of that hand kind of like... He's all... He kind of walks out now back in the cemetery and just... Boom! His head just explodes. The hand coming out of the sarcophagus. 20 years later, an aunt Cora is visiting Susan's psychiatrist saying she's worried about Susan. You know, it's coming up to the anniversary of her mother's death. The psychiatrist says, I'm sure she's fine. Then she hands him this book, this diary. It's all nice and everything. The Nomad family diaries are dates back like to the 1600s and it's all about superstition and possession. Any woman that wanders into this mausoleum will be possessed by a demon? That's all ridiculous. He's all, yeah, yeah. Yeah! Susan and her husband Oliver go dancing for the night. And I dig this place. I'm like, which place like this still existed? Like it's not just a bar. It's like a kind of a cool dance club. Kind of dancing and he's going to take this phone call. That fucking asshole guy. Yeah, there's that bearded asshole guy. It's like with some other woman. Stop looking at her. He's like, you've been bitching about the same thing constantly. Forced himself to dance with Susan. He's like, come on, baby. He's all flinging around. So she's kind of like, fuck off and she just sits down. All of her comes back to the table. They have to leave. Going out to the parking lot and that drunk bearded asshole kind of goes past them and gets into his car. She starts staring at him. He starts glowing. This car all starts on fire. And Oliver tries to get him out. And he's like, ah, it's too hot or whatever. He kind of backs off. And then bearded asshole just fucking blows up. You get introduced to the gardener flirting with her a bit and peering through the windows to all looking and shit. She kind of goes onto the balcony. She's drinking some wine and he's chopping at this stuff. Pointlessly chopping at this stuff. He starts seducing him from the balcony. He starts giving him a little bit of a tease. His face just lights up like a kid on Christmas morning. After he's done all of his tasks for the day, he goes to meet Susan. After the fact, the gardener kind of wants to go again, right? I've been with a lot of women in my life. None of them quite go like you. Son of a bitch, you take the cake. So he tries to get her to go again. He can't rouse her. He's like, what are you sleeping? I never sleep. She turns around. She's got one of those hand rake things and just fucking beans it right into his head. The next day, her Aunt Cora comes over and she sees all this mist and fog coming out of the master bedroom. All this green light. So she opens up the door. Susan's inside. He's all possessed and demonic. Susan makes Aunt Cora levitate over the banister and you see her chest like rip open. He's like, holy shit. I don't know what this Aunt Cora did to deserve that, but she's just loving and caring. That night, Oliver is sleeping and he kind of wakes up and he sees Susan rocking back and forth in the rocking chair and she's like possessed. She's like full on demonic. Phones the psychiatrist and he tells him that something's wrong. Susan ends up seeing the psychiatrist and he ends up getting her into a trance. I'm gonna count to three. Yeah, three. That's all it takes is three. You wanna put me in a trance asshole? Take a lot more effort than that. The psychiatrist puts her under and right away she starts turning all demonic. Right away he knows that there's something wrong. He contacts a friend of his. She reads through the diary and gets sort of the family history and how to stop this demonic possession. There's a crown of thorns in the mausoleum that he's got to get to stop this whole thing. And that's where we're gonna end it. We wanna see what happens with Susan with the psychiatrist in mausoleum. Keep watching. Holy Christ, that was a fucking chore and a half. Trash or treasure? What is the treasure? Well, the kills. The kills in this movie are fucking fantastic. From when that guy's head explodes for no reason at all. He's like, okay, I know what kind of movie I'm watching here. The act, when her chest gets all ripped open, I wasn't expecting that to happen. I was expecting her to maybe fall on something. Which happens later. She wants that painting. He's like, well, you can't have it. It's been sold. Float some over that thing and just drop some on that Jordan thing. Jordan? What the fuck is that? How that thing is there. This is like the public. Well, back in the 80s when the malls had all those weird sculptures in them and everything. And that fountain thing? We used to have that. Yeah, like malls used to be cool. Yeah, now they're not. Another great kill is when that second gardener guy comes over to deliver those plants. And she seduces him too. His eye just falls out of the sock and he's holding his own eye. And that segues into the effects, right? All the effects are cool for the kills. They're all practical effects, right? This is before CGI. And they're awesome actually. And even the demon design for Susan is really cool too. Yeah, it's pretty grotesque. It's out there. It's a full body suit. Different parts of her are being cute. Yeah, it's got those tits. There's breasts. There's heads. What the hell is this? Another treasure is all the side characters in this movie are really good. We got the gardener. That gardener is fucking hilarious. He's gold, man. He kind of makes the movie. He's all eating. He's sleeping. He's stumped for no reason. All this useless work just to keep him busy. Sleeping on that dock or whatever. He's all fishing and everything. He had sandwich, all the food's all coming out. Reading that landscaping book. That's awesome. The maid, again, is a very good character. She's super funny. The kind of lighting and shadows in this movie is top notch, really. That's one of the hallmarks of this movie. Fog and the mist to signify the possession. The possession's happening. It's coming on. So you know to start watching out for Susan, right? I like the use of the shadows in the opening scene, the mausoleum where you see the shadow of the hand. The guy's head blows up. It's neat how they use the shadow. You see the shadow of the being. That's all you need. You don't need to see it. Then you see the demon later. Mausoleum is a good looking movie. It doesn't look cheap. And the music is fucking from the opening credits. It gripped me in. I was like, oh man, okay. We're in for a real fucking treat here. I was like genuinely getting a little creeped out by the music itself. Which brings us to the trash. The whole story makes no fucking sense. And they don't give it nearly as much explanation as you need. Just some diary with like the family history and any woman that goes into the mausoleum gets possessed by the demon. Like what? Where does this all stem from? Why is this one family haunted by this demon that lives only in the mausoleum? And from the 1600s like you think you couldn't figure this shit out by now. Like this happens every generation. We'll just tear down the mausoleum or move. Find a different place to bury your dead in this cemetery. It's so stupid. Yeah, we're not big fans of over-explanation. But this movie seriously needed more. The only way to get rid of the demon is put the crown of thorns on your head. Why is there a crown of thorns in the mausoleum? Like what does that have to do with anything? The psychiatrist guy learns that and then he has to get the crown of thorns. So then you're wanting this wicked showdown between whatever is living in that mausoleum that's our cofegous thing. And the psychologist guy and no he just pulls it off the door on the outside doesn't even go in. That's one of the biggest let downs ever. I was like oh I was all gearing up I was like oh god. He's going to have a crucifix. He's going to have some holy water stuff like that. No he just takes the thing off the outside of the doors and then leaves. And then goes to Susan and just puts it on again. He'll beg a little more than that. He went the fuck. The ending is very anti-climatic and that's another piece of fucking trash in this movie is that ending. I gotta go back to the mausoleum and do it again with that demon. But again nothing is explained or there's no action at all they just go in and they do it and it's like fuck ok maybe the second time around we're going to get a bit of a pay off or a bit of a show here. Nothing. I was like ahhh. What is she doing with these bodies? Why is she killing? There's no explanation why she's killing. See what she's doing with the bodies and there's still nothing to do with anything. They're all up in that attic. Which is all full of cobwebs like super cobwebs. It's like they got this maid that's there every day don't you clean that fucking room clean every room in the house except for that room. Super cobwebs. And she's got that chest that she's pulling all those dolls and shit out of. What is that all about? The only really good performance is Oliver as the husband he's pretty believable. You can't believe that he's in this situation but besides that it's pretty bad. I mentioned this in the treasure the creature design pretty good but at the same time it's also kind of trash too because it's almost too silly like with the heads and the breasts and it's like they show it too much like it should be more in shadows and like kind of get a hint of it here or there maybe at the end you get the full reveal tell the mouth doesn't move or anything it's just right. That's one thing this movie struggles with it walks the line between camp and serious and not really doing a good job but either. The movie's called mausoleum but it has nothing to really do with the movie. Don't be useless The name of the movie kind of doesn't really suit what the movie's really about you know. Not at all it should have just been called the possession of Susan or something like that would have been good enough ok so mausoleum trash or treasure. I still think this movie is a treasure. Yeah me too as much as we shit on it just now it's still such a fun watch. It's so crazy and entertaining that you can't help but like it. Exactly. Even though parts of it are kind of bad. Yeah and it mostly has to do with the explanation and the fact that they don't use the mausoleum enough right. Yeah and the poor acting but I think the over the top effects and kills and all that stuff really makes up for it. Yeah Any horror fan should watch this to have a good time. So until next time keep drinking and watch mausoleum mausoleum mausoleum