The movie opens with Danny and Denise, a very happy couple, getting married. The next 5 minutes is nothing but them being just so very very happy and planning their lives together that you just know something awful has to happen to them very soon. Sadly it does not happen too soon. Danny (Graham Sibley) and Denise (Tracy Coogan) ditch their jobs, give up their apartment, plan on moving to Portugal and go surfing. While they are relaxing in the sand a zombie, yes a zombie!, comes out of the water and drools a black slime into Danny's mouth Now see if you can guess what happens next.
Danny wakes up in the hospital after being clinically dead for ten minutes. He seems to have no side effects from his experience. Well okay maybe one side effect: He now has an insatiable appetite for human flesh! A morbidly obese jogger is the first to go and when Denise finds Danny in the bathroom chowing down he looks up at her and says "It's not what you think." Hoo boy! Well Danny tries to appease himself with rare steaks but he soon learns there ain't nothing like the real thing, baby. That's when the body count starts to rise.
This is one of those movies where characters incorporate the "F" word into every other sentence and there are long stretches of plot where nothing happens. Danny chows down on everyone in sight and casually wanders home clutching a severed arm. The smartest cop in town figures out something is really wrong with Danny but even he cannot guess the real truth . . . well not until the picture has less than 10 minutes to go anyway.
"Fangoria" magazine praised this film as a romantic horror/comedy but let's face it, Fango lost its journalistic credibility over a dozen years ago. What we have here is a role reverse rehash of the plot of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III with a man as the zombie and his devoted wife standing by him until the inevitable ending. Oh and that Tammy Wynette song? It plays over the end credits. If you are a country music fan you already know which song it is.
I found this movie in a 2for$20 bargain box. Even at that low price I felt cheated. You have been warned.
Danny wakes up in the hospital after being clinically dead for ten minutes. He seems to have no side effects from his experience. Well okay maybe one side effect: He now has an insatiable appetite for human flesh! A morbidly obese jogger is the first to go and when Denise finds Danny in the bathroom chowing down he looks up at her and says "It's not what you think." Hoo boy! Well Danny tries to appease himself with rare steaks but he soon learns there ain't nothing like the real thing, baby. That's when the body count starts to rise.
This is one of those movies where characters incorporate the "F" word into every other sentence and there are long stretches of plot where nothing happens. Danny chows down on everyone in sight and casually wanders home clutching a severed arm. The smartest cop in town figures out something is really wrong with Danny but even he cannot guess the real truth . . . well not until the picture has less than 10 minutes to go anyway.
"Fangoria" magazine praised this film as a romantic horror/comedy but let's face it, Fango lost its journalistic credibility over a dozen years ago. What we have here is a role reverse rehash of the plot of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III with a man as the zombie and his devoted wife standing by him until the inevitable ending. Oh and that Tammy Wynette song? It plays over the end credits. If you are a country music fan you already know which song it is.
I found this movie in a 2for$20 bargain box. Even at that low price I felt cheated. You have been warned.