"sure to cause a shitstorm of controversey in right wing circles"

[im10ashus]

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of previewing an upcoming episode of the Showtime series, “Masters of Horror”. The episode, Homecoming, airs this Friday evening (which also happens to be the beginning of a Showtime free weekend). If you watch nothing else on TV this week, make sure you carve out 50 minutes to see this show. Here's a synopsis from the Showtime site:

Terror and scandal grip the nation when the media discovers that the living dead have swayed the Presidential election. This adaptation of Dale Bailey's award-winning short story “Death & Suffrage” blends zombie horror and contemporary political satire with chilling results.

Joe Dante (the director) and Sam Hamm (the screenwriter) have created a piece that is sure to cause a shitstorm of controversey in right wing circles. Why? The zombies are dead soldiers. And they express their views of war in a manner that the 101st Fighting Keyboarders brigade will certainly consider, well, unpatriotic.

Prior to my seeing the preview, Homecoming was described to me as “agitprop comedy”. Well, yeah. But for someone like me who is so tuned into the current political landscape (and the players who litter the landscape), Homecoming resonated because it spoke not only for the current travesty in Iraq, but for the general futility of all war. The political statement that Dante makes is powerful, to say the least — and especially in the current climate of intel investigation (think back to Harry Reid's recent calling the Senate into closed session). With the emerging questions about the selling of the war, even more so.

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http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=1759

[joefree1]

1. Zombie protest enrages brain dead repukes

Sounds good. We'll look for it.

[im10ashus]

2. I've never watched this series.

But this has certainly piqued my interest.

[zbdent]

3. There's a documentary about freepers?

wow . . .

[im10ashus]

4. LOL!

No. It's a regular series on Showtime. This one should piss them off though.

[LongTomH]

5. There was a 1930's anti=war movie.......

that featured "men with broken faces" rising from their graves to confront the war-makers. I don't think I ever saw this movie, just read a review. I don't remember the title.

Actually, in that pre-WWII period, there were a lot of anti-war movies made in the U.S. and abroad. I do remember seeing Claude ("The Invisible Man") Rains in "The Man Who Regained his Head." Rains played an ex-WWI soldier used for propaganda by munitions makers.

[LongTomH]

6. Here's a link for

"The Man Who Regained his Head on the Internet Movie Database site.

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. Damn, I wish I was going to be able to see this.

Anything to do with zombies interests me, and considering the nature of these zombies, it might prove especially intriguing. Also, in one of the preview clips on the Showtime website, did anyone else get the feeling that the opening was probably influenced by the first few minutes of Night of the Living Dead?

[im10ashus]

8. I haven't seen the clip on the website.

Is there a link?