A quiet night shift at the funeral home turns into something else entirely once a mortician is left alone with a body that refuses to stay still in this 2025 horror feature.
What is The Decedent about?
The setup is deceptively simple: a young mortician's routine work on a corpse turns unsettling the moment the body in her care belongs to a recently deceased serial killer. What starts as procedure — preparing remains, following the steps of an ordinary shift — gives way to a supernatural force that seems to have followed the body into the room. Director Andrew Bowser, who also appears on screen, builds the film around a single confined setting, leaning on atmosphere and dread rather than a sprawling plot, with the mortuary itself functioning almost like a character as the night stretches on. At 82 minutes, the film keeps its scope tight, favoring a slow, contained escalation over a wide horror ensemble.
About the cast
Zoe Graham leads the film as the mortician at the center of the night's events, with director Andrew Bowser also taking a role on screen alongside Paul Schwartz. The small cast fits the film's confined setting, keeping the focus on a handful of characters trapped together as the night unfolds.
Context & significance
The Decedent belongs to a familiar strand of horror that finds tension in ordinary workplaces after hours — a funeral home, in this case, rather than a hospital or office — where isolation does most of the work before anything supernatural even needs to happen. Bowser's dual role as director and cast member is worth noting for horror fans who track filmmaker-performers working close to their own material, and the film's short runtime keeps the pacing brisk rather than drawn out.
Watching The Decedent on Ktime
The Decedent streams on K-Time with a free account login, and Farsi-speaking viewers can watch with Persian dubbing or Persian subtitles — part of K-Time's effort to bring recent English-language horror to a Farsi-first viewing experience for the diaspora audience.