Trailer for The Mortuary Assistant film released ahead of February 13 debut

Pcgamer reports the first trailer for the big-screen adaptation of The Mortuary Assistant has arrived ahead of its February 13 theatrical debut. The Mortuary Assistant was a surprise hit in 2022 that puts players in the role of a newly graduated apprentice mortician called into work late one night to handle unexpected embalmings and, eventually, occult rituals to ward off demonic forces.

Luke Winkie wrote in his 2022 preview that "The Mortuary Assistant is pockmarked with whiplash-inducing scares, but I think the game shines the most with its genuinely uncompromising presentation of what morticians do on a day-to-day basis," adding that the processes of draining blood, wiring jaws, and preserving eyeballs "is wondrously, euphorically disgusting." The article's writer said the trailer "doesn't land quite as well for me as the game did," arguing it plays more like a conventional demonic-invasion movie in which the mortuary setting mainly supplies reanimated corpses for jump scares.

The trailer, the piece notes, lays out an "entity" that must be banished back to hell and signals a film with lots of yelling and screaming rather than the game's slow-building, hands-on tension. The Mortuary Assistant is set to debut in theaters on February 13. The article's writer added that being different does not mean the film will be bad and expressed hope it is as well-received as the game.

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