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Night Life (1989 film)

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Night Life
Directed byDavid Acomba
Written byKeith F. Critchlow
Produced byCharles Lippincott
Starring
CinematographyRoger Tonry
Edited byMichael John Bateman
Music byRoger Bourland
Production
company
Creative Movie Marketing
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Night Life is a 1989 American zombie comedy film directed by David Acomba and starring Scott Grimes, John Astin, and Cheryl Pollak. It centers around a high school nerd named Archie Melville who is harassed from beyond the grave by the zombie corpses of his former high school bullies (recently deceased) after they are brought back to life by a freak lightning storm. It is also known as Grave Misdemeanors.

Plot

Archie Melville takes a job with his Uncle Verlin at the mortuary. When the local bullies die in a car crash, they are taken to the mortuary, where they become reanimated. The bullies, now zombies, become even nastier and begin to torment Archie and his friend Charly.

Cast

Reception

Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called the film "a routine and laborious living-dead exercise".[1] Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, called it a "rather minor teen effort".[2]

References

  1. ^ Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
  2. ^ Kay, Glenn (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.