Undertaking Palor story
Jess, Norm, Aaron, and Josh, a group of kids aspiring to be horror filmmakers, break into the local mortuary in order to see a real dead body. However, they soon stumble upon a sinister conspiracy of murder and greed, overhearing a conversation between the town's pharmacist, Mr. Grundy, and local mortician Sebastian Esbrook, revealing that the two have been killing townspeople with poisoned medicine so they can split the profits of the funerals. When it's tragically discovered that Josh's father was a victim of Grundy's tainted medicine, the boys plan to expose Grundy and Esbrook by taking the law into their own hands, hoping to film evidence of their murderous dealings. Directed by: Michael Thau. Story by: Ron Finley.
11 total · 4 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| adolescence | major | The story follows a group of four boys, who seemed to be in their early teens, as they uncover a nefarious plot by the town's undertaker and pharmacist to poison affluent people in the community and then profit from arranging their funerals. |
| greed for riches | major | A pharmacist and a mortician had joined forces to turn a quick buck in the following way: The pharmacist would surreptitiously poison the prescriptions of prospective rich and religious people in the community, counting on their families to hastily make use of the mortician's most expensive, and lucrative, undertaking services. |
| poison murder | major | A pharmacist and a mortician had joined forces to turn a quick buck in the following way: The pharmacist would surreptitiously poison the prescriptions of prospective rich and religious people in the community, counting on their families to hastily make use of the mortician's most expensive, and lucrative, undertaking services. |
| what if I became witness to a crime | major | After they broke in to a mortuary, one of the boys became witness to a conversation in which plans to commit murder most foul for profit were outlined. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Josh sat crying on his porch after his dad had died during the night. Putting two and two together, they quickly understood that his asthma medication had been poisoned. |
| fear | minor | The boys were initially challenging themselves to face their fears by entering a scary ass mortuary and shake hands with a dead body. |
| filmmaking | minor | The story started out with Josh accepting Jess's challenge to make a horror film depicting someone shaking hands with a dead body. The plot soon moved away from Josh fulfilling his potential as a filmmaker. |
| human pleasure | minor | The undertaker took a disturbing amount of pleasure in his work of preparing dead bodies for burial. |
| living corpse | minor | The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver. |
| spouse murder | minor | It came to light that the pharmacist Grundy had eliminated his wife by means of poison. |