Dead at the Box Office (2005)

After finding a mysterious film reel hidden in their ceiling, the well-meaning staff of a struggling movie theater assume that the film is an old B-movie preview trailer and play it before ... See full summary »

Director:

Shawn Stutler

Writers:

Casey Kirkpatrick, Ryan A. Markle,

Stars:

Michael Allen Williams, Isaiah Robinson, Jennifer Popagain

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Allen Williams	...	Ron Gordon
Isaiah Robinson	...	Curtis
Jennifer Popagain	...	Holly
Chris FitzPatrick	...	Michael
Carole Stueben	...	Michelle
John Paul Puglisi	...	Rich Hurley
Casey Kirkpatrick	...	Eric
Elyse Soto	...	Page
Riley Vickrey	...	Carl
Melinda Lawson	...	Gayle
Ryan A. Markle	...	Dr. Hans Eisner
Alex Malinovich	...	Mossad Agent
Derek McMahan	...	G-Man #1
Mark Horstmann	...	G-Man #2
Kevin Toth	...	G-Man #3

Storyline

After finding a mysterious film reel hidden in their ceiling, the well-meaning staff of a struggling movie theater assume that the film is an old B-movie preview trailer and play it before a midnight screening of the timeless George A. Romero masterpiece, 'Night of the Living Dead'. When the film is revealed to be a long-dead Nazi scientist's mind control experiment, their audience of horror movie fanatics is transformed into a mob of mindless zombies with a fierce hunger for the flesh of the living! Ten survivors struggle to stay alive as the cinema is overrun by shambling hordes of the undead, while outside, ruthless government agents plot to halt the spread of the mysterious outbreak by any means necessary. Sometimes creepy, sometimes campy, 'Dead at the Box Office' pays tribute to the low budget horror films of the '70s and '80s. Combining the elements of these "B" classics with a fresh twist on the zombie origin, 'Dead at the Box Office' is a tongue-in-cheek salute to horror fans...

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Plot Keywords:

mind control | zombie | living dead | b movie | cinema | 

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Taglines:

Now PREYING at a theatre near you.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 September 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Throbbing Temple Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

References Night of the Living Dead (1968)

User Reviews

Bad movie, even with the sound down.

30 seconds into the opening credits, I had this feeling that this was going to be a bad movie, but I didn't know just how bad. Then the actor playing the evil Nazi scientist opens his mouth and my friend and I decide that in order to survive this movie, we'll have to turn the volume down, make up our own dialogue and double the speed on the DVD. But that didn't help. About half way through we turned it off. Now, I've lived through some very bad movies before, both with and without the aide of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and "Svengoolie," but there are just some movies which I doubt even the Bots can save. The biggest part of the movie that bothered me the most was that the people hypnotized into believing they're zombies had rotting green skin. I guess they were all hypnotized into death, then hypnotized into rotting themselves. Stick to the real B-movie cult classics like "Plan Nine From Outer Space."