Alien invaders cause the dead to return to life around the world. The living fight against all odds for their very survival as the numbers of the undead steadily increase. The key battle in this war, however, is being fought not in London, Washington, Moscow or Berlin, but in a small town called Asahi.
What if woodsman zombies rose from their graves and attacked you while you were attending a workshop on the meaning of life at a hotel in the middle of nowhere? Personally it’s exactly this “what if?” that has kept me awake at night for years.
John and Jennifer discover what appears to be a dead body just off the road, and while investigating John gets bitten. They escape on foot, and take shelter in their nearby cabin. In the morning they discover John has become one of the undead, and after an abortive effort to obtain professional medical assistance they return to the cabin to ponder their fate.
Experimental project “Operation: Sweet Death” (who knew that would go horribly wrong?) at the Hope Research Facility in New Guinea experiences a slight technical glitch and as a result the staff are turned into zombies. When communication is lost with the facility a special Interpol SWAT team (fresh from killing a group of terrorists barricaded inside the American embassy) is immediately dispatched to determine exactly what has gone wrong.
This film is an epic zombie masterpiece, combining insightful social comentary about the decline of rural life with a witty upbeat style that makes the subject matter palatable by fans of any genre. I feel certain that in years to come students of film will, without reservation, turn time and again to this undertaking as the pinnacle of b-movie film making, trying to capture a hint of the imaginative genious represented here.
Two escaped inmates meet with the local yakuza to evade the authorities. They find themselves double crossed, and after a brief fight with the yakuza, in which one gangster is killed and moments later rises as a zombie to attack his former companions, the surviving prisoner and a kidnapped girl run off into the forest.
A small pleasure cruise goes horribly wrong when the boat is first struck by a “phantom ship” then run aground just off a seemingly deserted island. The passengers and crew abandon the boat and row ashore hoping to find some help, or a means to repair their damaged ship. What they find instead is an abandoned hotel, occupied by a shipwrecked Nazi who tells them a tale of a secret German weapon from World War II.
An English university student receives word that his father has died in North Africa. While going through his fathers personal effects he discovers a journal documenting his wartime activities. It seems that his father was the sole survivor of a unit that had ambushed a German convoy in the desert in 1943, a convoy carrying gold. During a fierce battle his wounded father stumbled away from the battlefield, leaving it littered with bodies and a fortune in gold.
At the beginning of the 21st century girls aged between 15 and 17 begin to die around the world. Shortly after their death they rise as zombies and attack the living. Called “Stacies” the world struggles to deal with the consequences of having a good portion of the population either turning into zombies, or being eaten by them.
A gang of thieves knocks over a local jewelry store, then arranges to meet with a mob boss at an abandoned military facility to fence the goods. Unbeknownst to them a secret military experiment has gone horribly wrong at this facility, and they will have to survive not only a double cross by the mob but the legions of the undead hiding in the shadows.
