THE BONEYARD

The film plunges into the nightmarish experiences of a depressed psychic named Alley Oates (Deborah Rose), whose involvement in a grisly child-murder case leads her and her detective partner, Jersey Callum (Ed Nelson), to an imposing, fortress-like mortuary. Chen (Robert Yun Ju Ahn), the owner of the funeral home and prime suspect in the case, claims the three mummified corpses in question are not children but ancient demons known as jiangshi. It seems the little monsters have been around for centuries as a result of an age-old curse and can only be placated with offerings of human flesh — with which the mortician has been supplying them his entire life. When Chen is jailed on murder charges, the under-fed ghouls awaken in search of dinner, trapping the staff inside the mortuary walls and devouring them. The survivors, including Oates and Callum, use every means at their disposal to combat the demons, which have possessed the bodies of morgue attendant Mrs. Poopinplatz (Phyllis Diller) and her poodle, mutating them into hideous monsters.

The survivors, including Oates and Callum, combat the awakened demons using every means available, facing off against mutated forms of both Mrs. Poopinplatz and her monstrous poodle.

The climax fuses supernatural horror with siege-movie tension, as the human characters struggle against both ancient evil and their own psychological burdens. The mutated forms of familiar characters highlight the film’s blend of grotesque humor and practical effects, emphasizing that in this mortuary, even comic relief isn’t safe from monstrous transformation.