Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse In Love

Combining genres is a risky venture at best, most of the time, you get none of the best of either genre and your movie just ends up being a huge mess. But, once in a while, someone decides to combine one or more genres and not only does it work, but it turns out amazingly! That's what happened here with the new movie, Graveyard Alive.



Here's the story: Nurse Patsy Powers is a sort of 'plain jane' nurse. She works hard and is up for the head nurse position in her hospital, but she has a problem. Nurse Patsy has a huge crush on Dr. Dox, but Dr. Dox is engaged to Nurse Goodie Tueschuze. Well, when a woodsman comes into the hospital...with an axe sticking out of his head...he and Nurse Patsy fall in love. When it turns out that her patient/boyfriend is a zombie, and that Nurse Patsy has been infected, things at the hospital are about to get interesting!

Now, don't go into Graveyard Alive looking for your standard gut-munching, limb-ripping, zombie affair. Graveyard Alive is a strange combo of zombie movie, romantic chick flick, Mexican tele-novela and comedy, I can't imagine how hard it was to put a story this complex together and still have it look this good. The movie is in black and white, which only adds to the story, if the blood was all vivid red and the hospital was all in color it would seem more modern, not the throwback to old-fashioned soap operas that this emulates. Oh, people are eaten, but these zombies are as interested in satisfying their labidos as their appetites! When Nurse Patsy is infected, she turns from frumpy nurse to hot seductress, the transformation is pretty amazing.

The hero of the piece is, oddly, Nurse Goodie, who is Nurse Patsy's main rival, since Nurse Patsy has her eye on Dr. Dox, who is Nurse Goodie's fiance...getting confused? Well, you won't be, you'll be entertained. This is a horror movie for the soap fans out there, with an ending that will make you wonder what the hell happens next! I'm giving Graveyard Alive, three out of four cigars,

because, as horror movies go, this one is less horror than I usually like. But, as a good movie, this one is all that and a bag of chips (forgive me, I just channeled 1992 there for a minute!) Graveyard Alive is a horror movie that you can watch with your girlfriend and both actually enjoy it! So, until next time, when I'll confess to actually watching the soap opera, Passions, for a long time...what was I supposed to do, the door to Hell opened up in someones bedroom closet...would you tune out??? Until then, remember that the best movies are bad movies!