"Dead Man Voting"! An Iraq War HORROR Movie You Have to See!!

[leftchick]

I am posting this for a New DUer yknot who brought this to my attention in another thread!....


Dead man voting: Homecoming
Masters of Horror/Showtime

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0548,lim,70455,20.html

Dante's Inferno
A horror movie brings out the zombie vote to protest Bush's war

TURIN, ITALY "This is a horror story because most of the characters are Republicans," director Joe Dante announced before the November 13 world premiere of his latest movie, Homecoming, at the Turin Film Festival. Republicans, as it happens, will be the ones who find Homecoming's agitprop premise scariest: In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on "horseshit and elbow grease."

The dizzying high point of Showtime's new Masters of Horror series, the hour-long Homecoming (which premieres December 2) is easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era. With its only slightly caricatured right-wingers, the film nails the casual fraudulence and contortionist rhetoric that are the signatures of the Bush-Cheney administration. Its dutiful hero, presidential consultant David Murch (Jon Tenney), reports to a Karl Rove–like guru named Kurt Rand (Robert Picardo) and engages in kinky power fucks with attack-bitch pundit Jane Cleaver (Thea Gill), a blonde, leggy Ann Coulter proxy with a "No Sex for All" tank top and "BSH BABE" license plates. Murch's glib, duplicitous condescension is apparently what triggers the zombie uprising: Confronting an angry mother of a dead soldier on a news talk show, he tells this Cindy Sheehan figure, "If I had one wish . . . I would wish for your son to come back," so he could assure the country of the importance of the war. The boy does return, along with legions of fallen combatants, and they all beg to differ.

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"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see what a fucking mess we're in," he continues. "It's been happening steadily for the past four years, and nobody said peep. The New York Times and all these people that abetted the lies and crap that went into making and selling this war—now that they see the guy is a little weak, they're kicking him with their toe to make sure he doesn't bite back. It's cowardly. This pitiful zombie movie, this fucking B movie, is the only thing anybody's done about this issue that's killed 2,000 Americans and untold numbers of Iraqis? It's fucking sick." While gratified by the warm reception to Homecoming in Turin, Dante says he's eager for the right-wing punditocracy back home to see it: "I hope this movie bothers a lot of people that disagree with it—and that it makes them really pissed off, as pissed off as the rest of us are."

[yknot]

1. Ha, cool

Thanks leftchick

[leftchick]

2. My pleasure

This movie looks fantastic! The fact that a charecter ends up just like Cindy right before she makes the scene? Well that is just a damn good omen!

:)

[yknot]

4. Yeah it looks like a lot of fun

It made me think a little of the John Carpenter flick "They Live".

[hwmnbn]

3. Hi yknot, welcome to DU...

:hi:

I'll be watching this, thanks for the heads up.

[yknot]

5. Hi and thanks n/t

[Liberaler]

8. Ditto!

Took out series pass on my DVR for it. Might have missed it without this thread!

Thanks! :D

[warrens]

6. I just told a friend

And she's going to tape it for me.

[leftchick]

9. I don't have Showtime

I will have to find someone who does and get it taped as well.

[BreweryYardRat]

7. Think I'll watch this...

Normally I can't stand zombie flicks, but I'll make an exception for this.