[Bill McA]

A little boy was playing outside of a house with a volley ball (or soccer ball or similar size) and it goes into a small cemetery close by the side of the house (bout 15/20 yards away) and he runs and gets the ball. As he's headed back towards the house a body starts crawling up out of a grave. I beleive that was at the start of the movie. That's all I can remember. I think it was a black&white film but not sure.

The Return of Count Yorga

[Daryl L]

Thx Bill McA, I'll have to check that out.

[SteveGon]

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie - An agricultural experiment in bug extermination raises the hungry dead! Slow build up, but the gore is decent and includes the classic breast-ripping scene. I did want to scream at the characters, especially when confronted by the living dead in the graveyard: why the hell didn't they just run to their car and drive away instead of locking themselves in a mortuary and letting themselves get surrounded? Duh.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****

[Chris Gerhard]

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Originally Posted by SteveGon

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie I did want to scream at the characters, especially when confronted by the living dead in the graveyard: why the hell didn't they just run to their car and drive away instead of locking themselves in a mortuary and letting themselves get surrounded? Duh.

You go ahead and write a screenplay for the first zombie movie where everybody gets in their cars and drives away from the zombies. If it ever gets filmed, my guess is it will be a flop.

Chris

[SteveGon]

Well, yeah, but I'm just sayin'!

[Chris Gerhard]

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Originally Posted by Christopher_G

Could it be this one, with a real original name? An IMDb link to "Undead".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339840/

Chris

I remembered this and saw this DVD for sale used at a Movie Gallery today so I bought it. It sounds like a little different approach to the same old nonsense, so I am going to give it a chance.

Chris

[SteveGon]

Bone Sickness - Yet another in the endless stream of low budget, amateur zombie flicks, this one at least was supposed to feature an impressive onslaught of gore. Well, it is pretty damn gory (even if the constantly spurting blood looks like cherry Kool-Aid) but alas, the plot: a guy is suffering from a rare bone disease. His wife seeks the aid of his best friend, a morgue attendant and alternative medicine practitioner. The friend concocts a mixture of meat and bone marrow taken from, you guessed it, human cadavers! This eventually turns bone disease guy into a murderous "necro-junkie." It also raises the dead from a nearby graveyard (I'm guessing it was the fluid from a leaky corpse that we see running down a drain). The zombies go on a rampage, eventually wolfing down most of the main cast as well as a bunch of SWAT dudes. This is all fine and dandy but about midway through the story ceases to make sense with nightmare sequences and goblins (yes, there are goblins in this movie) being thrown into the mix. This wouldn't be so bad if the film weren't so damn dark. I know darkness is an important ingredient in many horror films, but it takes skill to use it effectively. Here it's just annoying and novice directors should really stay away from it (or at least spring for some lights). So what we have here is an overly dark, messily-plotted zombie flick with an impressive (and rather lengthy) zombie chowdown sequence. Your call.

If it helps, there is also some pretty good t & a.

** out of ****

Goreometer rating: **** out of ****

[SteveGon]

The Grapes of Death - Jean Rollin's answer to George Romero's The Crazies finds a rural French community turned into decomposing homicidal maniacs after drinking pesticide-tainted wine. Okay, they're not really the living dead, but whatever. Ya got naked hot chicks, some decent gore (including a grisly crucifixion/beheading) and gorgeous location shooting. Check it out!

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****

[SteveGon]

Homecoming - Joe Dante's entry in the Masters of Horror series is a zombie movie of a different sort: dead American soldiers have risen from their graves, but they're not hungry for warm human flesh - no, they want to vote! Spurred by political chicanery over an unpopular war, these zombies just want their voices heard. Did they die for their country or some politician's spurious gamble? Homecoming is a fairly effective political satire that works despite some unnecessary plot contrivances towards the end. How much you enjoy this will depend on your political leanings, though the message here transcends politics.

Spoiler:

I suspect George might even like this, if only to see the Ann Coulter character get her comeuppance.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ** out out ****