From Burke and Hare to…this.

4. Hit and Run – R.L. Stine

Corpse handling has really taken a dive, it seems. I am, of course, only speaking of the disreputable kind- like in that disturbing lab in Phoenix that truly ruined the dignity of scientific body donation and like frolicked in the ruining. Another disreputable kind, that was funny in Weekend at Bernie’s if you know nothing about death and the body, takes place in Hit and Run, which is also a spoiler. But, really, with the abundance of stories where some teens hit someone with the car and are then tormented by it individually and collectively, wouldn’t you rather know these dumb teens didn’t kill anyone when they hit someone with their car this time? In a way, this makes the corpse mishandling worse because it was planned and repetitive and just to creep out some teens and how did the mishandled deceased not decompose too much to be helpful in such an environment of endless shenanigans? Damnit, Jerry, you should not be working at the morgue (understatement). You should be working at a wax museum…I just fixed the plot hole.

Salem is not currently dead, thankfully, so, he can be seen here looking into a future where his corpse will not be mishandled. He shall not know the Weekend at Bernie’s lifestyle of corporate corpse manipulation.

 

Ozma of the Living Dead knows how to handle herself and the living.