"Masters of Horror" Homecoming (2005)

Director:

Joe Dante

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Sam Hamm (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

2 December 2005 (Season 1, Episode 6)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A publicity official for the U.S. Army finds that he might have to be working a lot more than he imagined, when the deceased soldiers of the war come back to life, looking for a few good men.

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Election | Zombie | Satire | Fictional War

Cast

Jon Tenney	...	David Murch
Thea Gill	...	Jane Cleaver
Wanda Cannon	...	Kathy Hobart
Terry David Mulligan	...	Marty Clark
Robert Picardo	...	Kurt Rand
Beverley Breuer	...	Janet Hofstadter
Dexter Bell	...	Marine Guard #1
Jason Diablo	...	Marine Guard #2
Karen Austin	...	Mom
Daniel Wesley	...	Bobby Earl Beeler
Penelope Corrin	...	Registrar
J. Winston Carroll	...	Rev. Clayton Poole (as J.W. Carroll)
Nathaniel DeVeaux	...	Mr. Baker
Candus Churchill	...	Mrs. Baker
Jason Emanuel	...	Michael

Runtime:

58 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Italy:VM14 | UK:15 | Germany:16 | USA:Not Rated (DVD) | Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied) (2008) | Finland:K-18 (DVD) (self applied) (2007) | Argentina:16

Company:

IDT Entertainment

Trivia:

At the end when the zombie soldiers coming out of their graves the tombstones have the names of veterans of the horror and zombie genre, easy to read are: Jacques Tourneur, G.A. Romero ( George A. Romero), Jean Yarbrough and Delbert Tenney ( 'Del Tenney (I)'), harder to read are: Lucio Fulci, Victor Halperin and Gordon Douglas. The (readable) graves have this order: Romero and Tenney in the first line, behind them Fulci and Halperin and in the last line behind Fulci is Tourneur, who is in the middle of Douglas and Yarbrough.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The first Marine to return from the dead tells the Air Force sentry, "At Ease, Soldier." Air Force personnel are properly addressed as "Airmen."

Movie Connections:

References I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Political? Yes, but thoughtful, thought provoking, and well done

I disagree 100% with the reviewer who gave this short movie an "F" grade. Is this a zombie movie with an obvious political slant to it? Yes. But in the current political climate (movie was released in 2005) this particular political opinion and the discussion that it hopes to start by merely mentioning these issues has been horrifyingly missing from our national dialogue. I agree that it's a sad day when a low budget zombie film has to bring these issues into the national dialogue. But thank God that Joe Dante had the courage to do it. Now, if you're not interested at all in social/political issues there's no need to worry. This is a great little zombie movie that is entertaining and original. I loved it and would give it an "A"