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Masters of Horror Episode 6 : Homecoming

Joe DANTE

USA200660min Beta Color

Synopsis

It is the US in 2008with the war on Iraq still waging on. US soldiers come back to their hometown not in flesh and bone, but as zombies. Opportunistic politicians tap into the political gains they might get out of the zombies' "homecoming." Yet, the living corpses beg to differ: they have different views from the politicians and fight to live their own life independent of the Administration's propaganda machine. Joe Dante turns to the horror movie's framework to shed a different light on the current politics. Joe Dante's cinematic mastery has created Homecoming, the most intellectual horror him of Masters of Series.

Diretor

Joe DANTE

In 1978, he directed his first feature, Piranha, followed by The Howling (1981). Spielberg hired him to direct his big budget scary movie Gremlines (1984). At his best, Dante manages to capture in his work the wonder-and humor-of 1950s and 1960s movies that first turned him on.