The Mortuary Collection (2020) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Sam is actually Charlotte Gibbons, a notorious killer known as the Tooth Fairy Killer. She was imprisoned in an asylum but escaped. Montgomery Dark lured her to the mortuary as part of a supernatural cycle, using the job listing to bring her back to Raven's End. When Logan's parents return, the truth about her identity is revealed, showing that she has been playing a role to get close to the mortuary.

Foreshadowing: Earlier in the film, Montgomery mentions that he has been collecting 'troubled souls' for his mortuary, hinting at his interest in Charlotte.

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• tooth fairy killer
• sam identity
• twist ending

Montgomery Dark has been running a supernatural game where he lures troubled individuals to his mortuary and traps them in an eternal cycle. After Charlotte kills the escaped patient and confronts him, Montgomery reveals they are both trapped in this supernatural scheme. He reconstructs her body after she dies and revives her, transforming her into the new keeper of the mortuary, continuing the cycle of despair.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery tells Sam that he has been collecting stories from Raven's End's troubled history, suggesting he has been curating people for his supernatural purpose.

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• supernatural trap
• mortuary keeper
• cycle

Emma attends a high-society party in the 1950s and decides to steal a wallet. Her curiosity leads her to a mysterious medicine cabinet in the house. When she opens it, a grotesque tentacled creature drags her into the abyss, killing her. Her seemingly innocent act of theft leads to a supernatural death.

Foreshadowing: The mysterious medicine cabinet is shown earlier during the party setup, emphasizing its strange appearance.

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• tentacled creature
• 1950s story
• medicine cabinet

Jake is a charming frat boy who meets Sandra at a campus party and preaches sexual freedom, but his true motives are darker. He begins experiencing a bizarre presence growing inside him, something is gestating within his body. The horror culminates when he ends up at Sandra's family home, where the entity inside him fully emerges, resulting in his tragic death.

Foreshadowing: Jake feels something growing inside him early in the party scene, and his fraternity brothers notice his discomfort.

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• creature inside
• frat boy
• sandra

Wendell Owens cares for his catatonic wife Carol in the 1970s, driven to despair by her condition. Dr. Kubler suggests that Wendell should ease her suffering, essentially implying she would be better off dead. Under this pressure and his own mental deterioration, Wendell kills Carol and dismembers her body, placing her in a bridal chest. However, Carol's corpse reanimates and attacks him, trapping him in a horrifying loop where he must recite wedding vows to her corpse.

Foreshadowing: Dr. Kubler's suggestion to 'ease her suffering' plants the idea in Wendell's mind early in the storyline.

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• carol
• catatonic wife
• dr. kubler
• dismemberment

All the stories are tales told by Montgomery Dark to Sam during her first day at the mortuary. They represent the troubled histories of Raven's End that have shaped the island. However, the frame story itself is part of a supernatural trap, Montgomery uses these tales to draw people into his mortuary and trap them in an eternal cycle. Each story ultimately connects to Charlotte Gibbons becoming the next keeper.

Foreshadowing: The film establishes early on that Montgomery collects stories from Raven's End's dark past, setting up the anthology structure.

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• anthology stories
• connection
• montgomery tales

Charlotte becomes the new keeper because Montgomery has been running a supernatural cycle where he traps souls at the mortuary. After her confrontation and death, Montgomery reconstructs her body and brings her back to life, but now she is bound to the mortuary as its new keeper. She awakens with an ominous voice and calls out to a young boy (Bill), continuing the cycle of horror.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery tells Charlotte they share a fate trapped in this supernatural game before her death.

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• mortuary transformation
• new keeper
• cycle

The Tooth Fairy Killer is Charlotte Gibbons, who murdered people and was imprisoned in an asylum. She escaped and ended up at Logan's house while babysitting, under the alias Sam. When she is discovered by the stranger (another escapee), she kills him in self-defense. After confronting Montgomery, she dies but is brought back as the new keeper of the mortuary, effectively trapping her forever.

Foreshadowing: The news alert about an escaped asylum patient foreshadows Charlotte's own escape and dangerous background.

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• charlotte gibbons
• asylum escape
• babysitting

The ending is definitively supernatural. The entire narrative operates in a realm where dead bodies reanimate, creatures exist in medicine cabinets, and the mortuary itself traps souls in an eternal cycle. Montgomery reveals their shared fate in a supernatural game, and Charlotte's transformation into the new keeper confirms that the horror elements are real within the film's universe.

Foreshadowing: All four anthology stories contain supernatural elements, establishing the film's reality as one where the supernatural exists.

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• horror twist
• reality vs nightmare

Montgomery Dark has been running the Raven's End Mortuary for decades, possibly centuries, collecting troubled souls and trapping them in his supernatural game. He needs a replacement because he is either immortal or bound to the mortuary himself, and requires someone to take over his role as keeper. Charlotte, as a notorious killer, fits his pattern of choosing broken, dangerous individuals to continue his work.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery mentions collecting souls and stories throughout the film, suggesting he has been doing this for a very long time.

• montgomery replacement
• mortuary succession
• supernatural keeper