Just another day in the forest. Protestors busily chanting slogans at the loggers, loggers busy cutting down trees, trees busy infecting loggers with geneticically enhanced sap and the now infected loggers rampaging all over the protestors. So the cycle of life continues.

Poor Helena is officially having a bad day. She and her boyfriend had become lost, then just when they had begun to enjoy the rustic beauty of the “scenic route” had run over a local resident. The local resident then came back to life, bit her boyfriend who then tried to kill Helena. She’s now on the run through the Irish countryside with hundreds of zombies chasing her and only the local gravedigger for help. Although they’re never specific, it’s probably a typical Monday for most involved.

Offering a commentary on the dangers of recreational drug use this, the fifth in the “Return of the Living Dead” franchise, details the struggles of the survivors from ROTLD4 to identify the contents of suspicous barrels located in an attic, then to contain a zombie outbreak caused by their friends efforts to transform Trioxin5 into pill form for consumption by unsuspecting college students. Help is offered in the form of two generic Eastern-block Interpol agents that are unfunny when trying to be comedic, and funny when being serious.

Topless waitresses on vacation encounter an ancient quasi-evil which interupts their bi-sexual merriment. Can four vacuous women discover the secret of the perverted immortal monks in time to prevent a pointless prophecy from being fulfilled or will they perish in an explosion of superfluous nudity and bad acting, shredded by a script that doesn’t care and an audience that left an hour ago.

A touching story of Love, Jujitsu, self discovery and the end of the world as we know it as experienced by two fire extinguisher plant employees suddenly thrust into a world overrun with the living dead. Can they rise to the challenge? Do they have what it takes to survive while demonstrating that Jujistu is the best fighting method?

Rookie Officer Vitalio has a problem, his veteran partner has a habit of pulling over young women, handcuffing them and then driving them to a remote warehouse and taking them inside while Vitalio is ordered to wait at the car. Even as a rookie he has noticed that the young women go into the warehouse, but the only thing his partner ever brings out is a big black body sized duffel bag.

Francesco Dellamorte leads a humble existence, tending to the Buffalora cemetary by day and killing the reanimated bodies of it’s newest residents by night. It’s not this that causes him distress however. Discovering the woman of his dreams among the mourners causes him to re-evaluate his existence. Francesco finds that discovering true love is the easy part. Making it last is somewhat more difficult. Naturally the zombies don’t help matters at all, and when you add Francescos burning desire to escape Buffalora altogether you end up with an interestingly odd take on a zombie movie.

Ravenside Memorial Hospital has a bit of a checkered history. Now used to treat those with psychological problems, it used to be a military facility before it’s untimely demolition in response to a zombie outbreak. History is revisited when one of the patients discovers a sample of the zombie formula and accidentally exposes staff and patients alike. How will they survive?

When one of their friends is abducted by an uber-corporation on the way to a hospital, the rest decide that they will have to handle matters themselves. They break into the HybraTech facility with the assistance of a friend in the security center, and while rescuing their injured friend manage to release the zombies warehoused in the “Necropolis”. Only good luck and chaotic action sequences can save them now.

Curts Dad is the officer responsible for the most recent series of trials involving 245 trioxin. When Curts girlfriend Julie is killed in a motorcycle crash Curt sneaks onto the base, and uses Trioxin-245 to reanimate her. This, of course, has mixed results and the lovers have to come to terms with her new hunger for flesh, and his fathers efforts to contain the outbreak.