This is one of those strange '80s oddities that dispenses with a logical plot in favour of special effects, the film making not a lick of sense, but providing viewers with several manky zombies, some gore, and a little T&A. It's superficial fun for a while, but wears out its welcome long before the end credits roll.
The film's shuffling undead emerge from a television set (no explanation given) that is delivered to the wrong address. The owner of the house is killed by the zombies, who dress him up in party gear (no explanation given). Three months later, the property is sold to new owners, the Blair family, whose teenage children, Zoe (Roxanna Augesen) and Jeff (a terrible performance from Rocky Duvall, whose acting career started and ended here), arrive at the house to get it ready for their parents, who are in Saudi Arabia (no explanation given).
Jeff finds the television set and is teased by a blonde who appears on the screen, and then in his room totally starkers (no explanation given). The blonde disappears back into the TV where she is killed by a man who calls himself 'the Garbageman', who tells Jeff that he is in danger and that he must put the TV in the basement and place a mirror against the screen. Jeff does so, but even though he has apparently trapped the evil in the TV set, zombies wander the woods outside, waiting to attack (no explanation given).
Zombie expert Joshua Daniels (Sam David McClelland) arrives to lend a hand, informing Jeff that mirrors can be used to ward them off, while copper bells will warn of the approaching undead (an interesting idea, but, again, no explanation given). Writer/director Robert Scott gives us a handful of half-decent zombies, and some enthusiastic blood-letting, including the dissection of a zombie by chainsaw, but the lack of anything resembling a coherent narrative makes the film hard to remain invested in.
The film's shuffling undead emerge from a television set (no explanation given) that is delivered to the wrong address. The owner of the house is killed by the zombies, who dress him up in party gear (no explanation given). Three months later, the property is sold to new owners, the Blair family, whose teenage children, Zoe (Roxanna Augesen) and Jeff (a terrible performance from Rocky Duvall, whose acting career started and ended here), arrive at the house to get it ready for their parents, who are in Saudi Arabia (no explanation given).
Jeff finds the television set and is teased by a blonde who appears on the screen, and then in his room totally starkers (no explanation given). The blonde disappears back into the TV where she is killed by a man who calls himself 'the Garbageman', who tells Jeff that he is in danger and that he must put the TV in the basement and place a mirror against the screen. Jeff does so, but even though he has apparently trapped the evil in the TV set, zombies wander the woods outside, waiting to attack (no explanation given).
Zombie expert Joshua Daniels (Sam David McClelland) arrives to lend a hand, informing Jeff that mirrors can be used to ward them off, while copper bells will warn of the approaching undead (an interesting idea, but, again, no explanation given). Writer/director Robert Scott gives us a handful of half-decent zombies, and some enthusiastic blood-letting, including the dissection of a zombie by chainsaw, but the lack of anything resembling a coherent narrative makes the film hard to remain invested in.