**SPOILERS** The movie "The Hearse" seems to hit all the wrong notes at all the right times to make it look more like a comedy then a horror film. This eerie black hearse with a creepy and scare-face driver behind the wheel is always stalking and trying to run down poor Jane Hardy, Tris Van Devere, who's spending the summer at her late Aunt Rebbecca's house, the Martin Place, in the town of Blackford.
Jane trying to get over a very stressful divorce left the big city of San Francisco to the quite country town of Blackford in order to get over her depression, how wrong she was. We find out that this weirdo hearse driver is actually the man she falls in love with at Blackford the strange eerie and unearthly Tom Sullivan, David Gaulreaux. Who also turns out to be the ghost of Robert who was Jane's Aunt Rebbecca's lover, back some thirty years ago, who turned her on to Satanism.
You notice right away that this guy, Tom, is not of this earth, he looks and acts more like he's come from under it. Nobody in the town of Blackford sees him but Jane who doesn't see what we all see that's the obvious about him, that Tom is Robert's evil spirit. Were later told by the drunken Walter Pritchard, Joseph Cotton,who's Jane's lawyer and real estate agent that her Aunt Rebbecca did practice Satanism with her lover Tom. Later after she died Tom was burned to a crisp when the hearse taking her body to the cemetery exploded into flames leaving nothing to be buried. There's a weird dream-like sequence in the movie where Jane goes into the hearse and ends up at the local church attending aunt Rebbecca's funeral. Then she gets up from her coffin and scares the hell out of Jane as well as the theater audience.
At the town everyone is very cold and avoids Jane because of her living in the Martin's house except young Paul Gordon,Perry Lang. Paul is very much in love with her Jane even though she's much older then him and looks at him as a friend not a lover. Jane is in love with the weird Tom Sullivan who's trying to get her, like her Aunt Rebbecca, in league with the Devil.
Pritchard later tries to scare Jane out of her house as he smashes the windows of the Martin Place in a drunken rage. Only to get himself killed by the runaway hearse and ending up hanged in the shower , by his tie, in the Martin Place's bathroom. Paul is also killed when he goes to the Martin Place to save Jane from her crazed and demonic lover Tom with Jane running for her life from Tom and his deadly hearse.
Late in the movie there a scene where the local preacher Reverend Winston, Donald Hotton, runs to the Martin Place and does an exorcism on it in what looks like a wind tunnel. The exorcism is so funny that it comes across as an episode straight out of Mystery Science Theather 3000.
Tom chasing Jane with his handy hearse ends up being slammed, by Jane's car, and knocked down a cliff and burned to a crisp like Aunt Rebbecca was some thirty years ago. The ending of the film "The Hearse" calls for a sequel but luckily for us the movie wasn't that successful to warrant one.
Jane trying to get over a very stressful divorce left the big city of San Francisco to the quite country town of Blackford in order to get over her depression, how wrong she was. We find out that this weirdo hearse driver is actually the man she falls in love with at Blackford the strange eerie and unearthly Tom Sullivan, David Gaulreaux. Who also turns out to be the ghost of Robert who was Jane's Aunt Rebbecca's lover, back some thirty years ago, who turned her on to Satanism.
You notice right away that this guy, Tom, is not of this earth, he looks and acts more like he's come from under it. Nobody in the town of Blackford sees him but Jane who doesn't see what we all see that's the obvious about him, that Tom is Robert's evil spirit. Were later told by the drunken Walter Pritchard, Joseph Cotton,who's Jane's lawyer and real estate agent that her Aunt Rebbecca did practice Satanism with her lover Tom. Later after she died Tom was burned to a crisp when the hearse taking her body to the cemetery exploded into flames leaving nothing to be buried. There's a weird dream-like sequence in the movie where Jane goes into the hearse and ends up at the local church attending aunt Rebbecca's funeral. Then she gets up from her coffin and scares the hell out of Jane as well as the theater audience.
At the town everyone is very cold and avoids Jane because of her living in the Martin's house except young Paul Gordon,Perry Lang. Paul is very much in love with her Jane even though she's much older then him and looks at him as a friend not a lover. Jane is in love with the weird Tom Sullivan who's trying to get her, like her Aunt Rebbecca, in league with the Devil.
Pritchard later tries to scare Jane out of her house as he smashes the windows of the Martin Place in a drunken rage. Only to get himself killed by the runaway hearse and ending up hanged in the shower , by his tie, in the Martin Place's bathroom. Paul is also killed when he goes to the Martin Place to save Jane from her crazed and demonic lover Tom with Jane running for her life from Tom and his deadly hearse.
Late in the movie there a scene where the local preacher Reverend Winston, Donald Hotton, runs to the Martin Place and does an exorcism on it in what looks like a wind tunnel. The exorcism is so funny that it comes across as an episode straight out of Mystery Science Theather 3000.
Tom chasing Jane with his handy hearse ends up being slammed, by Jane's car, and knocked down a cliff and burned to a crisp like Aunt Rebbecca was some thirty years ago. The ending of the film "The Hearse" calls for a sequel but luckily for us the movie wasn't that successful to warrant one.