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9. Undertaking Palor

Four boys find out that the local undertaker and a pharmacist are in cahoots to murder rich locals and profit from their funerals.

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Jess, Norm, Aaron, and Josh ( Jason Marsden, Scott Fults, Aron Eisenberg, and Ke Huy Quan ), 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 ( Graham Jarvis ), and local mortician Sebastian Esbrook ( John Glover ), revealing that the two have been killing townspeople with poisoned medicine so they can split the profits of the funerals. When it is 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.

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