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i must have seen a different film!!

Excellent but underrated film

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Another poster called it the Citizen Kane of zombie movies. They were right. It's got some magic in it.If you heard the premise you'd judge this film in advance and in doing so you'd be missing a real horror classic. There's something about it that follows you out of the end. It's scored in a very interesting way, shot in a very interesting way and the whole thing has a dreamlike quality. Scott Grimes was superb in the lead. The very last bit really makes the film. Clever. The whole thing is well written. The dialogue is not hackneyed or trite, it's literate. Watching it I thought the director must have been really hungry because he spun this simple story into something gold.

"Archie Melville" (Scott Grimes) is a high school student who works at the local mortuary during the night for his uncle "Verlin Flanders" (John Astin). Unfortunately, this severely impacts his social life and the girl of his dreams "Joanie Snowland" (Lisa Fuller) wants nothing to do with him. Not only that but two jocks at the high school have made it their mission to harass him endlessly as well. To make matters even worse the only friend he has named "Chary Dorn" (Cheryl Pollak) tells him she is leaving town permanently. But things change quickly after a fatal car accident involving a toxic spill sends his two tormentors along with Joanie and her friend "Roberta Woods" (Darcy DeMoss) to the funeral home where he works--and then lightning strikes! Now rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a peculiar zombie film which had its ups and downs. For starters, there were some parts which I thought were extremely slow and I didn't think the humor was all that keen either. But the gore factor was quite high and having 3 attractive actresses like the aforementioned Lisa Fuller, Cheryl Pollak and Darcy DeMoss certainly didn't hurt. In short, while I didn't think this was a great zombie movie by any means it was okay for the time spent and I rate it as about average.

Review based on the full 88-minutes long, UK version, titled Grave Misdemeanours. Well meaning, but slightly dim, high school kid Archie works at his uncle's funeral home, with a convenient explanatory scene telling us, the audience, why he works there. When four jock idiots play another prank on him at the funeral home, his cruel and mean spirited Uncle, V. J. Flanders (played superbly by John Astin, in what is basically an extended cameo) fires him. When the four jocks are involved in a fatal accident later that night, V.J. recalls Archie to collect the bodies. Slow motion scenes of Archie coming to the crash and finding the bodies lends a surreal, hallucinatory feel, as life often does in, times of crisis like that. But are the four boneheads really dead?His cruel Uncle rotates one of their heads nearly 180 degrees, in a heartless effort to show that they are dead, for Archie. But again, are they really dead, or did the lightning, and truckload of radioactive crap they plowed into do something ... *strange* to them? Lightweight horror/ comedy fare, the real horror doesn't really kick in until the final 30 minutes, when the four do indeed come back from the dead, and seek revenge on Archie, and anyone else they happen across, in particularly gruesome fashion. Astin's Uncle character has an especially awful demise. That final 30 minutes, and John Astin's successful cast-against-type role make this a winner.

What a boring movie!!! I have hated every minute of it. First of all, it takes almost an hour before anything will happen, and when it happens, the Zombies aren't scary at all... I think it is more like a slapstick movie than a horror.