# Any movies where people rise from the dead, WITHOUT nightmarish consequences? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042 "2003-04-16T08:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/41 "2003-04-16T21:22:08Z")
An arguable case is _The Man Without a Past_. Exactly, how we’re meant to take the “death scene” is a bit unclear, but the fact he apparently dies really has no great bearing on the rest of the plot, which only depends on his amnesia. Granted, he seems to be metaphorically losing his past by dying, but one could instead explain this as him forgeting it due to the coma. The consequences of the amnesia are pretty nightmarish, however. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/42 "2003-04-16T22:50:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > Actually, the first thing that came to mind was John Travolta pulling off a convincing back-from-the-dead trick in _Pulp Fiction._ Career-wise, I mean. Yes, but one of the consequences of that was _Battlefield Earth_. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/43 "2003-04-17T00:48:45Z")
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/44 "2003-04-17T00:50:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bonzer \* > \*\*Yes, but one of the consequences of that was _Battlefield Earth_. \*\* :eek: Yeah, that’s pretty nightmarish. I humbly withdraw the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/45 "2003-04-17T01:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*There was a Twilight Zone episiode from the original series where a young hillbilly type wakes up at his own funeral. There’s a big “Is he a Demon or his he Him?” question. Can’t recall the title right now – my copy of Zicree is at home. \*\* Since I came into this thread ready to post that one, allow me to provide the title: “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank.” Starring James Best (aka Roscoe P Coltrane from _The Dukes of Hazzard_) as Jeff Myrtlebank - the hillbilly that wakes up at his own funeral - and Sherry Jackson (aka daughter Terry from _Make Room for Daddy_) as his fiancee Comfort. Subtle hints at the very end that he is, in fact, not what he seems. But there weren’t any nightmarish consequences - the final Rod Serling commentary was: “Jeff and Comfort are still alive today, and their only son is a United States Senator. He’s noted as an uncommonly shrewd politician, and some believe he must have gotten his education…in the Twilight Zone.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/46 "2003-04-17T12:36:00Z")
Thanks, **Dooku,** seeing your name reminded me of another one: **Return of the Jedi.** ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/47 "2003-04-17T12:46:32Z")
A classic: **The Ghost and Mrs. Muir**. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/48 "2003-04-17T13:04:18Z")
"The Crow’: In this case, the nightmar was everything already going one, and the dead guy stopped it from continuing! ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/49 "2003-04-17T13:40:42Z")
If ghosts count - **Topper** (1937), its sequels, the tv series (1953), and the tv-movie (1979) would count. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/50 "2003-04-17T14:01:38Z")
Supporting Little Nemo’s classification - “Heaven Can Wait” And a movie surprisingly overlooked at the oscars - “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/51 "2003-04-17T17:53:08Z")
**Wings of Desire** … no one _actually_ comes back from the dead, but people change from being immortal to moral, if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/52 "2003-04-17T17:54:53Z")
that **mortal** not _moral_… damn, damn, damn ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/53 "2003-04-17T18:40:05Z")
Lord Of The Ring: The Two Towers ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042/54 "2003-04-17T20:36:00Z")
How about **Escape from New York** and **Escape from LA**? “You’re Snake Plisskin? I thought you were dead!” “I get that a lot…” On a more serious note, there was **Windwalker** , made sometime in the early '80s about an elderly American Indian who comes back from the dead to protect his grandchild from a hostile tribe that has wiped out the rest of his tribe. He wakes up on his burial platform, and we hear his thoughts…“If I’m dead, why are my feet so cold? Grandfather, this is not a very funny joke…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-where-people-rise-from-the-dead-without-nightmarish-consequences/169042.md?page=2)