The film was released on February 13, 2026 in limited theater release. It will be on Shudder on March 26, 2026.
Plot
Rebecca is a woman with a troubled past who has taken a job at a mortuary. After she attends a narcotics anonymous group and obtains her 1 year sober chip, she is contacted by her boss Raymond and told they have had transfers from the city and she will have to come in and work the night shift. Rebecca comes in to work and proceeds embalming and burning a body, which she initially finds strange that the chart states to do both as this would be a waste of time but she proceeds anyway. Strange things start happening, she sees a shadowy figure and various hallucinations. She wakes up back at home and her sponsor Kelly is banging on the door. Rebecca reluctantly answers and Kelly states Rebecca had called her and told her to come over which Rebecca does not recall. Rebecca then loses control, her eyes go yellow and she begins violently attacking and eventually kills Kelly with a corkscrew through the temple. Raymond then calls Rebecca and tells her he knows what she is seeing is frightening and tells her to go back to the mortuary because it’s safer there and he will explain later.
While Rebecca is on the phone, the body of Kelly stands up and moves towards her before falling over when Rebecca turns to look at her. Rebecca runs towards the door to leave and when she opens it, Kelly is standing there having only just arrived, indicating she has hallucinated the whole thing. Rebecca runs past Kelly and returns to the mortuary where Raymond is waiting. Raymond begins explaining what is happening and exactly what she needs to do before Rebecca’s eyes close. Raymond begins calling Rebecca’s name and her eyes open and are yellow and she begins berating and attacking Raymond. Raymond runs out of the mortuary sealing Rebecca inside. Rebecca wanders the mortuary now no longer possessed and starts seeing her deceased father. She is called by Raymond and told to cut her wrist on a body and burn it which she does.
Rebecca continues to hallucinate as the burning of the body hasn’t worked. Raymond calls again and Rebecca tries to explain that it didn’t work, before Raymond says he hasn’t spoken to her since he left and tells her to find the tapes in the basement and to hang up the phone. Raymond’s voice changes from helpful to telling her to burn herself and inject herself with embalming fluid and she hangs up the phone. Rebecca goes to the basement and finds tapes which she plays and they are of Raymond explaining that to stop demons they need to be embalmed with reagent and burned reagent is shown in the tape to be blood from a woman he has locked in a box. Rebecca goes on to follow Raymond’s instructions and finds symbols written on the walls using burning paper to make them appear. She then hallucinates some more and finds the woman in the box in the storage room. Rebecca places the tablet with the name of the demon which she has found around the mortuary on a cadaver while it begins to question her she then burns it.
Rebecca awakens in the morning in the mortuary and goes back to the storage room and releases the woman in the box with bolt cutters. The woman begins to berate Rebecca and Raymond comes into the room showing a tattoo on his chest which makes the woman back up back into the box. Raymond tells Rebecca he will explain upstairs. Raymond explains to Rebecca that the woman locked up isn’t alive and died long ago. He tells her that he needs her blood to prevent others deaths and Rebecca used it too. Raymond tells Rebecca she will never be free of the demons but he can teach her to live above the fear. Rebecca leaves the mortuary and smiles as she sees ordinary people living their lives in a park nearby. She looks across into some brush and sees a demonic figure staring back at her with a grin. She looks back at it briefly before walking back into the mortuary.
On September 22, 2022, DreadXP and its parent company Epic Pictures Group announced the development of a movie adaptation of The Mortuary Assistant with Jeremiah Kipp writing and directing, and Willa Holland starring as Rebecca Owens and Paul Sparks as Raymond Delver.[4][5]
Release
The Mortuary Assistant was released in limited theaters on February 13, 2026. The film will be available to stream on Shudder beginning March 27th, 2026.[6]
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