# Name that zombie film. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949 "2008-01-02T00:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/1 "2008-01-02T00:30:00Z")
I saw it years ago on TV (most likely the SciFi channel). The main character was a teenager who worked in his uncle’s funeral home. He was picked on by a group of popular kids (2 footballers & 2 cheerleaders) and had a crush on the blond cheerleaders. While driving on the highway late at night after a party they crash into a tractor trailer carrying toxic chemicals and are all killed. The main character is called to pick up the bodies and drives them to the funeral home. That day while working on them (I remember him cutting the bra off the blonde) one moves slightly. He gets freaked out and calls uncle. The uncle explains that it’s just the muscles contracting gets a corpses fingers to slightly by holding a lighter near them and turning it on. Later that night the uncles leaves and their corpses come back to life. Does anybody know what the name of this movie was? It was made in the 80s or early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/2 "2008-01-02T00:50:27Z")
[Night Life](http://imdb.com/title/tt0097972/)? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/3 "2008-01-02T07:52:46Z")
Here’s a bump. I am ashamed to admit that you have stumped me with a on about zombies. Now that is horror. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/4 "2008-01-02T08:12:53Z")
**bbs2k** , do you not think it’s _Night Life_? The description seems to match pretty well. I was surprised that my wife had never heard of it. For that matter, she was surprised too; she’s got as comprehensive a knowledge of zombie movies as I’ve ever encountered. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/5 "2008-01-02T09:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] **bbs2k** , do you not think it’s _Night Life_? The description seems to match pretty well. I was surprised that my wife had never heard of it. For that matter, she was surprised too; she’s got as comprehensive a knowledge of zombie movies as I’ve ever encountered. [/QUOTE] Plot description from IMDB: > [@](#): > > Archie is a “brain” at a small town high school who works part-time at his uncle’s mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile accident, and the bodies are taken to his uncle’s mortuary. Archie is pulling a late night at the mortuary when he sees a storm brewing. **Lighting strikes!** They’re alive! The preppie bullies continue to torment him - as zombies. (boding mine, Klaus Nomi is rolling in his grave ) This movie is so obscure it doesn’t even have a wikipedia page. That says a lot these days. But yah, I’d say you probably did hit it. _:: listens to whoosh of Wikipediers heading over to make a page ::_ ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/6 "2008-01-02T21:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] **bbs2k** , do you not think it’s _Night Life_? The description seems to match pretty well… [/QUOTE] It’s definately **Night Life**. To bad it doesn’t seem to be availible on DVD. Jackelope, how did you find it so fast? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/7 "2008-01-02T21:54:04Z")
if i may borrow your thread **alphaboi867** , i have another zombie movie to name too. it was a _very_ long time ago, i have mostly forgotten everything and most likely remembered what little there is wrong. anyway it’s a romantic comedy(?). the female lead might be a zombie or ghost. story is in halloween. music. at one point there is a halloween party at someone’s house and a zombie (mistaken for someone in costume) started a thriller dance. i think that’s it. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/8 "2008-01-02T22:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Jackelope, how did you find it so fast? :eek: [/QUOTE] I went to the IMDb’s [Search keywords page](http://imdb.com/Search/keywords) and put in _zombie and mortuary_. I tried some other ones, but that was the one that brought back a manageable number of hits. **shijinn** , I’ll ask my wife about your movie. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/9 "2008-01-02T22:44:55Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] she’s got as comprehensive a knowledge of zombie movies as I’ve ever encountered. [/QUOTE] I hope that on your fiftieth wedding anniversary when you rise to toast your lovely bride you manage to work this into the speech. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/10 "2008-01-03T07:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I hope that on your fiftieth wedding anniversary when you rise to toast your lovely bride you manage to work this into the speech. [/QUOTE] Can do, bro. She’d love it. **shijinn** , after having boasted so of my wife’s zombie-lore, I’m sorry to report that she says there’s not enough info in your post to ID the movie. ---
**Author:** ![l0k1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@l0k1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l0k1)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/11 "2008-01-03T13:48:50Z")
Shijinn, The movie you’re thinking of is The Midnight Hour: [The Midnight Hour (TV Movie 1985) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089593/) ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/12 "2008-01-03T14:05:50Z")
hey, that is it. thanks! sorry **jackelope** , it’s a very old movie! ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-zombie-film/431949/13 "2008-01-03T15:08:56Z")
_Night Life_ is also known as _Grave Misdemeanors_. Search the web and you can find DVD-R copies.