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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: 20398
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: December 02, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A horror film with a political message HOMECOMING comes from director Joe Dante (GREMLINS THE HOWLING). With a war going on abroad and an election coming up the Republican party is anxious about getting enough votes to seal the deal. But when they wish for the soldiers who died in the war to come back to life and speak on their behalf they never expect it to actually happen. Rising from their graves the undead men and women set out to tell their own version of events and to get revenge.System Requirements:Running Time 59 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 013131446791 Manufacturer No: DV14465
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - One-Line Joke From the "Gremlins" Director
It's made-for-TV, so adjust your expectations accordingly: The effects are cheesy, and the acting even cheesier. The movie's nothing more than a one-liner, but it's a brilliant one-liner. "Homecoming" is bound to offend just about everyone, from Republicans to military families to anyone with any sense of decency...but if you're watching a zombie flick in the first place, you're not looking for good wholesome entertainment, right?
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