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From the great Dan O'Bannon who also wrote 'Lifeforce', 'Blue Thunder', & 'Total Recall'. This is his fantastic directorial debut! The best zombie movie ever made with the right balance of horror and humor. Came out at the same time as George Romero's 'Day of the Dead', but is much better, despite a slew of lawsuits.

The legendary opening sequence introduces two dim-witted medical supply employees, Frank (James Karen of 'Eight is Enough' TV series) and Freddy (Thom Mathews). The former tells an elaborate story claiming that '67s 'Night of the Living Dead' was actually a basterdized version of a true story, and the real zombies are now stored in the supply warehouse in which both men work.

Of course a canister containing one of them is accidently opened, and sends contaminated fumes into the air. A medical corpse promptly comes to life, wreaking havoc on the two numbskulls before finally being dispatched.

The company owner (Clu Gulager of 'Virginian' TV series) is drawn into the action when he and his funeral parlor friend next door try to incinerate the zombie corpse. This sends contaminated fumes into the air which the rain causes to settle and seep into Ressurection Cemetery. A carload of punks that are partying there propels naked punker Linnea Quigley to scream queen status after this scene.

Usually classified as a comedy, it is, above all, a horror movie through and through. This is not a campy spoof; it treats its subject with reverence and plays fair with the viewer, never condescending and always trying to deliver as many thrills as possible. The result is one of the best horror movies of the '80s.

Gulager and Karen deservedly earned a lot of genre work after this, but the entire cast nails their roles perfectly with a tricky script, which balances a wide variety of tonal shifts. There's also an impeccably chosen punk rock score and an unforgettable shocker of an ending that would never, ever fly with today's audiences.