Directed by Gary Sherman
Written by Ronal Shusett and Dan O’Bannon
Story by Alex Stern and Jeff Millar
Starring James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, Nancy Locke and Robert Englund
USA, 1981
Strange murders are taking place in a small coastal town and the sheriff (James Farentino) and coroner (Jack Albertson) are on the case. The bodies pile up at an alarming rate and seemingly no one can be trusted as everyone in town starts to act increasingly weird – including the sheriff’s own wife (Melody Anderson).
As the small-town sheriff races around town trying to figure stuff out, I was reminded a little bit of JAWS. The nice thing about this little oddity is that there is a solution to the mystery that isn’t easily guessed and is a unique take on zombies. If you don’t want to know what it is, stop reading now, because it turns out the coroner is a mad scientist who has perfected a way to bring the dead back to life, and uses his skills as a mortician to keep them looking alive to the point where basically everyone in town is undead.
Even beyond this revelation there is one more small last-minute twist that buttons up this neat little thriller nicely.
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