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Director: David J. Francis Starring: Danny Ticknovich, Sandra Segovic, Dwayne Moniz, Steve Curtis, Andrea Ramolo, Deanna Wales John Cars Screenplay: David J. Francis, Amber Lynn Francis Country: USA

Now, pretend you have never heard of George Romero as you read this plot, otherwise it may sound a bit familiar. World War 3 has hit…bombs are dropping all over the place, and radiation is infecting everything… including the dead, bringing them back to life with a hunger, a hunger that can only be satiated by eating warm living human flesh!! This tells the tale of a group of survivors who are holed up in an abandoned factory, including Dave (Danny Tichnovich), Shelly (Sandra Segovic) and Keith (Steve Curtis), keeping the dead at bay from the outside, but finding that sometimes dissidents, like Derek (Dwayne Moniz) on the inside can eat away at a group like a cancer, and tear it apart.

This movie has many faults but I will give it credit for one thing: the script has more heart than most zombie movies of late, be them independent or big budget. This movie focuses more on the plight of the survivors, and how they are able to deal with each other when a scourge is ravaging the Earth. Unfortunately it is hard to appreciate that when you consider the acting is substandard, the direction is somewhat lacking and the soundtrack is choppy and badly dubbed at times, with the voice matching not even coming close on occasion. The story jumps around at times, and the passing of time is not always clear: at one point a group of people decide that they don't want to get stuck in the woods at night, and the very next scene shows them stuck in the woods at night. This is OK for a bad American sitcom, but is out of place in a horror movie. The zombies look OK, a cross between Dawn of the Dead zombies and Day of the Dead zombies: not quite grey faced ghouls with a little splattering of gore, but pretty close. As a feature under its own right, Zombie Night isn't much, but the influences are obvious and a love of the zombie genre shines through, and that makes it tolerable…barely.