So, you went to Iraq and got killed. And now the President who sent you there for duplicitous reasons is using your death to justify furthering the deaths. Are you just going to sit there. . . um, I mean, lay there, mouldering and rotting? Is that the American thing to do -- just stay dead? Are you going to be -- apologies in advance for this one -- silent as the grave?
Hell no. And now we can all see what might happen -- on Showtime's Masters of Horror series Dec. 2 -- if some/a lot of those who have died could come back and speak Death to Power.
link on the flip.
The Village Voice has a great story
http://villagevoice.com/...
about "Homecoming". Here's a tasty bit of the review.
"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.
The director, Joe Dante, hopes "Homecoming" will function as a "wake up call".
But I think it's going to be a shitstorm. A shitstorm by design:
"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."
Thank you, Dante, for helping show the Hell we're in.