Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)

Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)
Director: Patrick Horvath
Cast: Joshua Grote, Parker Quinn, Liesel Kopp
Ken is a wandering and unassuming serial killer who enters a forsaken and empty diner during the graveyard shift. After a long conversation with the diner's lone waitress Rose, Ken kills her and promptly delivers the same fate to the diner's cook Fred. As Ken cleans up the bloody mess and deposits Rose and Fred in the walk-in freezer, company arrives. A young, unhappy married couple Rob and Kathy stop by the diner only to be followed by the arrival of Sheriff Duke Purdett. Ken now finds himself in the middle of a rousing game of cat and mouse which he manages well until the unthinkable happens. Back from the dead, Rose and Fred emerge from the freezer and start walking around! Once an unflappable serial killer, Ken now holds the young couple and wounded sheriff captive, trying frantically to escape the zombie predators.

A lone wandering young killer walks into a truckstop diner during its graveyard shift and kills the waitress and cook. Before he can dispose of the bodies the diner gets two new customers, a couple who are on the brink of separating. So the killer pretends he's running the place, which seems to work until a local sheriff whose familiar with the food joint turns up asking where everybody is, its then that they notice the once dead cook and waitress have risen from the dead and acting peculiar.

Running in at little over an hour this seems more in keeping with an episode of Amazing Stories than a typical modern horror movie. The characters are quirky enough and well enough acted but its just too tame a zombie romp that's squarely played for comic value (than say for action or chills) which for me at least, it failed to achieve as it wasn't actually funny. Not the worst zomcom out there, but there's many many more worth checking out before this.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 4½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 4/10]

Themes Included: Truckstop Diner ● Zombie Chef ● Zombie Waitress