Девушка проходит собеседование перед приёмом на работу в местном похоронном бюро, и её просят рассказать самые страшные истории. Результатом является сборник из четырёх самых страшных историй, когда-либо рассказанных за четыре десятилетия, начиная с 50-х и вплоть до 80-х годов.
Главные герои картины — четверо маргиналов — гробовщик, бывший жулик, бывший священник с суицидальными наклонностями и стриптизерша, которых причудливое стечение обстоятельств сводит вместе в сочельник. Лиотта сыграет освобождённого после 25-летнего заключения человека, нашедшего свою давно потерянную дочь.
Когда дрифтер подружился с чудаковатым гробовщиком, они, как ни странно, стали деловыми партнёрами. Скоро их охватывает паранойя и им обоим придётся смириться с тем, насколько хрупкой бывает дружба и верность.
В сексуальном, шумном ночном клубе пианист Персиваль живет по правилам, а Рустер, яркий ведущий артист клуба, расхаживает по сцене. Но все меняется, когда жадность, слава и убийства угрожают уничтожить их состав.
A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodeling." When they can't pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews to work at the funeral home to keep a watch on the debtors, but the nephews end up helping in the search for new bodies, and mayhem ensues when some undesirable types are re-animated.
Три гробовщика попадают в сети алчности и лжи, при участии погребенных сокровищ и запутанной любовной истории, в современном мистическом детективе, основанном на реальных событиях.
Issac, a young reclusive mortician who inherited his stepfather's mortuary business, meets a friendly waitress, Cassi. The two create an instant connection and after a night of terror, they pursue a revenge murder together.
After decades of working only around bodies, Eunice the mortician can't connect with people and she can't get laid. One night, alone and insecure, Eunice plays out her romantic fantasies when she comes across a 'gifted' corpse.
Documentary look at doomed male prostitutes in Prague, ages 15 to 18, who troll at the public swimming pool, the train station, a video arcade, and a disco. After the boys talk about how they got in the game, the camera follows them to the home of Pavel Rousek. Under the name Hans Miller, he makes gay porno videos, primarily for German distribution. Intercut with a movie shoot chez Rousek is an interview that follows him to his day job at a morgue, where he performs an autopsy as he talks about his work. The sex is without protection; the boys are without family. They talk about their bodies and souls, money, their sexual orientation, AIDS, their dreams, and death.
For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?
Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.
A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.
Mortician Lisa Taubenbaum is presented with the body of a woman named Dorothea Blum, who is said to have committed suicide. When an odd stranger insists on seeing the body and is murdered shortly afterwards, she takes a closer look at the case