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Director
  
David Acomba

Music director
  
Roger Bourland

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror

Screenplay
  
Keith F. Critchlow

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Writer
  
Keith Critchlow (screenplay)

Release date
  
1989 (1989)

Initial release
  
September 16, 1989 (Philippines)

Cast
  
Scott Grimes
(Archie Melville),
John Astin
(Verlin Flanders),
Cheryl Pollak
(Charly Dorn),
Anthony Geary
(John Devlin),
Alan Blumenfeld
(Frank),
Kenneth Ian Davis
(Rog Davis)

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Tagline
  
There's good reason to be afraid of the dark.

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.

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Plot

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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

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  • Scott Grimes as Archie Melville
  • John Astin as Uncle Verlin
  • Cheryl Pollak as Charly
  • Anthony Geary as John Devlin
  • Alan Blumenfield as Frank
  • Kenneth Ian Davis as Rog Davis
  • Darcy DeMoss as Roberta Woods
  • Lisa Fuller as Joanie Snowland
  • Mark Pellegrino as Allen Patumbo
  • Phil Proctor as Randolph Whitlock
  • Reception

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

    References

    Night Life (film) Wikipedia
    Night Life (film) IMDb Night Life (film) themoviedb.org