Masters of Horror-Homecoming (2005)

"...ferociously topical, audaciously bold...  Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge

Editor's Note 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 by voting the party that sent them to war out of office.

	Beverley Breuer
	John Tenney
	Nathaniel DeVeaux
	Sean Carey
	Ben Browning - Producer
	Dale Bailey - Based On Short Story By
	Ed Shearmur - Original Music By
	Hummie Mann - Original Music By
	Joe Dante - Director
	Keith Addis - Executive Producer
	Marshall Harvey - Editor
	Sam Hamm - Screenplay

The Village Voice 9 of 10
How fitting that the most pungent artistic response to a regime famed for its crass fear-mongering would be a cheap horror movie. Jaw-dropping in its sheer directness, Homecoming is a righteous blast of liberal-left fury...Dante and writer Sam Hamm (Batman) adapted Homecoming from Dale Bailey's "Death and Suffrage," a 2002 short story that puts a morbidly literal spin on the idea of the dead being used to pad the Chicago voting roll...Though Bush is never named, Homecoming tailors its provocative scenario to accommodate a devastatingly specific checklist of accusations, from the underreporting of war casualties to last November's dubious Ohio count. - Dennis Lim