A
renegade alien is on the loose in an
alien spacecraft. It lets loose a
container of deadly type slugs and
unfortunately lands on Earth in 1958 as
the screen is black & white during
this year.
A couple stops their convertible as one
of them spots something in a ditch which
is the container with those slugs which
lands in a guys mouth and kills him.
Meanwhile an axe murderer that a main
police officer is after slaughters the
guys girlfriend.
Then
it is present day and the screen is in
color. A fraternity pledge named Chris
(Jason Lively) wants to date the most
beautiful popular girl in the fraternity
named Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow)
so he tries to get his physically
handicapped friend named J.C. (Steve
Marshall) to help him as he is a pledge
too but in order to join they must go to
the cyrogenic lab.
While they are there they awaken the guy
from 1958 as he spits the slug types into
the corners mouth and the coroner turns
into a zombie himself.
Then the corpse walks to the college and
sets the types of slugs there.
Suddenly, most of the students turn into
zombies including the corpse of the axe
murderer that Det. Ray Cameron (Tom
Atkins) buried there after he shot him
which that present day he is still
disturbed by.
When
I was a kid I loved sciernce fiction but
my dad and I were skimming through the TV
Guide of what was on that night and it
said this was. It was categorised as a
horror film and I was terrified of horror
flicks at the time except for the Alien
and Jaws films.
We decided to tune into it but I got too
scared. I found the film at a flea market
that if you buy 20 VHS movies they only
cost a dollar each and I bought this one.
Suddenly I remember the plot when I
watched a bit of it on TV and was
recenlty thinking of the film but
couldn't remember the name of it since I
wanted to check it out.
I was excited and had no regrets of
owning it.
The film was a total cheesy 80's
horror/comedy zombie film and I'm a nut
when it comes to cheesy 80's horror.
You could consider it a Return of
the Living Dead ripoff but not
in a bad way.
Watching it now I find it more silly than
scary. Check it out.
The acting was very 80's
cheese like. I enjoyed it though. Jason
Lively is a fair natural and have
seen him have supporting roles in Rock
N Roll High School Forever and Class
of Fear.
Jill Whitlow who played the most
popular fraternity girl Cynthia has the
right looks
Tom Atkins always does a good
job in the films I've seen him in.
Some women in the
fraternity home are taking a shower and
their breasts are revealed.
Neat special
effects.
In a dream sequenece there's a corpse of
an axe murderer
A cyrogenic's head is split in half
A coroner is bloodied
A cat's face is mangled into a zombie
A guys head is splattered open in a
public washroom
A women's face is cut in half with the
corpse of the axe murderer but it is
quick then his head is blown off in the
next scene but it is not too gruesome but
various zombies have their heads blown
off which is quite gory too.
The directing is very
cheesy 80's like the acting in it but
that's what makes it so exciting. It's
not bad at all.
Fred Dekker who also wrote this
film knew exactly what he wanted.
He was good at the scene where the corpse
of the axe murderer is ressurected and
terrorises around the campus area.
Also he did great at directing Jason
Lively when he tries to be the hero
by killing the zombies.
With Dekker's wit in horror he
was noted for working in a few episodes
on Tales from the Crypt.
The music was composed by Bill
Finnegan. His music for the opening
was cheesy but creepy too.
Detective
Cameron: Is this a homicide, or a bad
B-movie?
Detective
Cameron: Corpses that have been dead
for twenty-seven years do not get up and
go for a walk by themselves!
Chris:
Detective, other than confessing to a
murder, is there a point to this
conversation?
[answering
phone]
Detective Cameron: Thrill me!
Sergeant Raimi: Detective Cameron?
Detective Cameron: No! Bozo the
Clown!
[repeated
line]
Detective Cameron: Thrill me.
Detective
Cameron: I suppose Rip Van Winkle
would be the other body; where is it?
Sergeant Raimi: The other body
isn't here, sir.
Detective Cameron: What? Did he
have a date? Whaddya mean it isn't here?
Detective
Cameron: What's this?
Detective Landis: It was a grad
student. He was scheduled to work here
this evening.
Detective Cameron: Looks like he
worked a little too hard, huh?
Detective
Cameron: Well, girls, the good news
is your dates are here.
Sorority Sister: What's the bad
news?
Detective Cameron: They're dead.
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