Nightlife (1989)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Nightlife |
| Original title | Night life |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 ( confiscated ) |
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| Director | David Acomba |
| script | Keith Critchlow |
| production | Charles Lippincott |
| music | Roger Bourland |
| camera | Roger Tonry |
| cut | Michael John Bateman |
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Nightlife , and nightlife , is an American low-budget - horror film from director David Acomba from the year 1989th
action
The provincial town of Walgren in the present. The shy student Archie Melville is a loner and outsider, who in his spare time works with his uncle Verlin Flanders, a gravedigger , and assists him in preparing the bodies. The young man leads a rather bleak existence. Only his friendship with the attractive car mechanic Charly enriches his everyday life. To make matters worse, four arrogant classmates - Allen and Roger and their friends Roberta and Joanie - constantly abuse him because of his sideline. They harass Archie so that one day he threatens to lose his unpopular job at the funeral home.
Before that happens, a serious traffic accident occurs at night with a dangerous goods transporter, from which a poisonous gas cloud escapes. Unfortunately, a clique of four young people, Archie's tormentors, are killed in this tragedy. The bodies are brought to Flanders' funeral home, where they are prepared and stored for burial . Even before the burial takes place, lightning bolts destroy the morgue's cooling unit during a storm . The dead come back to life at night as the undead , as so-called " zombies ", and henceforth seek Archie after life.
However, since they cannot get hold of him, there are attacks on uninvolved people. The living dead first fell victim to the local electrician, and later also to the Flanders gravedigger. Meanwhile, Archie flees to Charly to warn her, which he manages. Together, the duo fends off various attacks by the zombies and then flees to a nearby crematorium not far from the cemetery, where they attack the creatures without stopping them effectively. The zombies have unusual behaviors and simply assassinate the living instead of infecting or biting them.
Eventually Charly and Archie flee to the burial ground, where the final showdown takes place. The duo succeeds here in a show of strength in eliminating the walking corpses. At the end of the film, the danger is averted, Charly and Archie get closer in the happy ending .
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film was a "macabre horror comedy with bits and pieces of high school and zombie films."
Web links
- Nightlife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nightlife in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Nightlife in the lexicon of international films