Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

MJB784 I thought the movie was mostly boring and aged. It looked too 70's and was underlit. The darkness was difficult to identify the scenery. There's no interesting characters aside from Andy or any discussion of him coming back from the dead after the mom wished for it to happen. No psychology of how to fix the problem.

utgard14 A couple receives word that their son has been killed in Vietnam. The mother refuses to accept this and stays up all night wishing over and over that her son return home. Which he does, but not like she hoped. He's very weird and says next to nothing. Soon there are murders happening in their small town with people drained of blood.Cool low-budget horror movie from Bob Clark. It's a variation on the Monkey's Paw story -- "Be careful what you wish for." The cast is pretty good, particularly the actors playing the parents, John Marley and Lynn Carlin. Richard Backus plays the son and was apparently cast for his creepy stare, which he uses to great effect throughout the film. Chilling at times with a great atmosphere throughout, thanks in large part to the budgetary limitations. Low-budget '70s horror films are some of the grittiest and creepiest ever made. The first half is much better than the second, which is why my score isn't higher. After awhile the strangeness gives way to a more traditional vampire type story. I'm not sure if we can even call this a vampire movie but it has the primary element -- undead person who craves blood from the living. Tom Savini handled the special effects in one of his earliest films. It's an interesting and worthwhile horror film you should check out.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** It was the fallout of the war in Vietnam that brought this tragedy upon the Brooks family with their son Andy,Richard Bckus, coming back, after being reported killed in action, as a blood drinking and flesh eating Zombie who ends up destroying his family and those close and dear to him. It's Andy's dad old man Charlie Brooks, John Morly, who at first suspects that he's not exactly normal when in an unprovoked fit of rage killed the family dog Butchy who with his canine and animal instincts smelled something rotten about him. Its Andy's overprotective mom Christine, Lynn Carlin, who looked the other way in what a monster her son had become, due to the war in Vietnam, that had him get away with all the damage that he did in the movie.Zombie-like and showing no emotion Andy at first murdered and drank dry, of all his blood, the nice kindly and a bit drunk truck driver David Gawlikowski, who gave him a lift home from the cemetery. Now home with the family Andy plans to murder and drink the blood of the family doctor Philip Allman, Henderson Forsythe, who like the late family dog Butchy smells something foul about him, as well as his unkempt and unsocial way of doing things, who plans to go to the local police and report him for the possible murder of truck driver Gawlikowski whom he examined for the police department.****SPOILERS**** Andy soon gets the upper hand on Dr. Allman by breaking into his office, in the dead of night, and doing a number on him by strangling and drinking his blood to keep him from talking. It's finally when Andy is reunited with the girl he left behind Joanne, Jane Daly, by his kid sister Cathy, Anya Omsby, and her boyfriend Bob, Michael Maze, to go on a double date to the local drive-in that he really shows his true colors. It's old man Charlie Brooks who in trying to prevent any more murders committed by his son Andy who, in not having the guts to do it, ends up blowing hi s brains out instead. In the end Andy ends up just where he started in the local cemetery with him mom, now completely out of her mind, doing her best together with Andy in burying his rotting and putrid corpse as well as the horrors that he brought along with it.

Paul Celano (chelano) I know this is from the 80s and it has the typical bad acting and editing like most horror films at that time. But I did really enjoy this film. Richard Backus plays the creepy Andy in this film. He is dead and he needs human blood to stay alive and young, yet he takes it like heroin which is very strange. There isn't much music at all this film except for an ear piercing scratchy violin whenever something bad is going to happen. So once you heard that violin, you knew something good was coming up. Lynn Carlin plays the mother of Andy and she was a favorite in the film because she would not let anyone take Andy away, even when they found out he was a zombie. She at points gets really annoying on how much she loves her son, but they wanted her to act that way and she did a great job. So this is an interesting take on a zombie film and I cannot stress enough how creepy Richard Backus was. So give the film a change and don't let the fact that it has about twenty movie titles fool you.