Friday, June 23, 2006

Joe Dante's Homecoming

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I've been waiting for this one - Joe Dante (Gremlins) did an installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series called Homecoming, and it's finally coming to DVD on July 11th. Here's how it's described:

"It’s a few weeks before the Presidential election and an unpopular war still rages overseas. But when the Republican administration wishes that our dead troops could return to tell America how proud they were to serve their country, veterans begin to rise from their flag-draped coffins for the most horrific reason of all: to vote.Are they gloriously resurrected heroes or braindead zombie dissidents? And even if the administration can devise the proper spin in time to steal their re-election, will an army of men and women killed for a lie finally show our nation the true face of hell? Jon Tenney (THE CLOSER), Thea Gill (QUEER AS FOLK) and Robert Picardo (STAR TREK:VOYAGER) star in this provocative stunner from director Joe Dante (GREMLINS,THE HOWLING, PIRANHA) that The Village Voice calls “jaw-dropping…easily one of the most important political films of the era!”

Now that is what horror should be doing these days.
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