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Masters of Horror: Joe Dante - Homecoming
starring: Jon Tenney, Thea Gill, Wanda Cannon, Terry David Mulligan, Robert Picardo
directed by: Joe Dante

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013131446791
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Running Time: 59 minutes
Sales Rank: 71456
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: December 02, 2005

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It’s a few weeks before the Presidential election and an unpopular war still rages overseas. But when the Republican administration wishes that our dead troops could return to tell America how proud they were to serve their country, veterans begin to rise from their flag-draped coffins for the most horrific reason of all: to vote.Are they gloriously resurrected heroes or braindead zombie dissidents? And even if the administration can devise the proper spin in time to steal their re-election, will an army of men and women killed for a lie finally show our nation the true face of hell? Jon Tenney (THE CLOSER), Thea Gill (QUEER AS FOLK) and Robert Picardo (STAR TREK:VOYAGER) star in this provocative stunner from director Joe Dante (GREMLINS,THE HOWLING, PIRANHA) that The Village Voice calls 'jaw-dropping…easily one of the most important political films of the era!'

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Made for Showtime, the Masters of Horror series features films by renowned horror film directors, such as Homecoming by Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins). This satire about Bush's War On Terrorism is a one-liner, in which soldiers killed in Iraq rise from the dead to vote the president out of office as their last effort to end the war. Zombies fight for peace as the politicians concoct deadly schemes in this comedic film about the idiocy of our current government. Political consultants Jane Cleaver (Thea Gill) and David Murch (Jon Tenney) meet during a talk show panel, then watch in horror as the news begins to air footage of soldier zombies wandering the streets towards their local voting booths. Top political officials, unable to slay the undead, discover that the zombies die on their own after dropping their voting cards into the boxes. Zombies spark a small revolution by denouncing WMDs on television, urging citizens to follow suit. Though weak compared to Romero's great sarcastic zombie film, Dawn of the Dead, Homecoming features enough body parts squirting green blood to entertain. Over-the-top humor throughout recalls Re-Animator, yet the political message goes deeper. Dante's warped rendition of America’s recent history seems more relevant than ever. --Trinie Dalton

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- Neocon Bootlickers Are Gonna Hate This One
Homecoming is a very clever film focusing on the hypocrisy of flag-waving Chicken-Hawks. The film's main character is a Neocon political hack who boldly states that all the soldiers who died in Iraq loved the war and would vote Neocon if they could. In true horror-movie fashion, the dead do rise and become politically active, in a non-Neocon manner.

What I liked most about the film is how the director shows us the true evil monsters in the movie: The Neocons. But the main point of the film is presented in a clever and sometimes funny way. I see some Neocon bootlickers have already reviewed this film; to them "patriotism" means cowardly obeying the guy in the room with the most money, not defending the constitution. How sad.

We need directors and producers to make more movies like "Homecoming".

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- Story is much better, but movie's pretty durned funny.
Masters of Horror: Homecoming (Joe Dante, 2005)

I had no idea, when I first found about about this Joe Dante short from the Masters of Horror series, that it was based on my favorite Dale Bailey story, else I'd have endeavored to track it down a lot sooner than I did. And while Dante has a much heavier hand with the social commentary than does Bailey, Homecoming is still more fun than two-- yes, two!-- barrels of monkeys.

David Murch (Jon Tenney) is a professional spin doctor working for the current government's administration, who have gotten involved in a very unpopular war. (Sound familiar?) One night, while on a talk show, confronting a woman whose son was killed in the hostilities, Murch wishes, aloud, that her son weren't dead. Unfortunately, the dead hear-- and it's not just the dead from this war. They're all rising, and they all have a goal. But what? (That is the major spoiler, ... Read More

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- Political zombies
During a contentious presidential campaign, a government mouthpiece (Jon Tenney) publicly wishes that the soldiers killed in Iraq could come back long enough to let the American people know how they feel about being called on to make the ultimate sacrifice in that cause. Dead soldiers begin to return as zombies who are less interested in eating brains than casting ballots--against the current administration. This puts the right wing spin machine into overdrive, providing director Joe Dante with ample opportunity to skewer neo-conservatives for hypocrisy and cynicism.

Your opinion of this episode is bound to be colored by your feelings about the war in Iraq, so I'll be up front with mine--I've been against it from the start. Yet this episode still doesn't sit well with me. Conservatives are criticized for claiming to speak for dead soldiers to make a political point, but isn't that what Dante and ... Read More

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- My Jaw Dropped...
...in a bad way. This movie is astoundingly bad. The message it delivers is so ineptly handled with unfunny humor and bald-faced hatred that it fails as propaganda. It is not funny, so it fails as satire. And because it tries so desperately to be satire and propaganda, it fails as horror.

Clearly, the people involved in this sad project hate conservatives--which is fine. Many people do. But not many artists do to a degree that blinds their aesthetic judgments (Tim Robbins can churn out excellent parody, for example). The script seems like it was written by an angry co-ed. I came to this movie expecting to be entertained with some tongue-in-cheek horror. Instead, I was hectored by adolescents.

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