Night Life (film)
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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)Similar movies Hotel Transylvania 2 , Inglourious Basterds , Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead , World War Z , Maggie , Zombie Isle 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

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.
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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".
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