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The Wonkette household settled down last night to watch Joe Dante’s zombie political satire, “The Homecoming” and we can now report that it is even better than the concept of a zombie political satire about disenfranchised undead soldiers has any right to be. Reviewers had already pointed to the Ann Coulterish “Jane Cleaver” character, what we delighted in was the horse-legged-for-horse-legged duplication of Coulter’s TIME cover as Cleaver’s book jacket photos. Also good: The warning the protagonist receives about her, “Be careful son. She’s what we used to call a…skank.” The Karl Rove character’s dubious sexuality is a nice touch as is his spin on the realization that the only soldiers returning as zombies are ones who oppose the war: “Look at all the veterans who support our cause by staying in their graves!” Funny because it’s true. MORE »

Tonight, Showtime airs the most relevant political drama about zombies since “Night of the Living Dead’s” examination of race and violence…no, since “Dawn of the Dead’s” condemnation of consumerism… since “28 Days Later’s” disturbing allegory for the war on terror. What are we saying? Pretty much all zombie movies are politically relevant. But Showtime will be airing the most recent one, as part of their low-budget schlock horror series, “Master of Horror.” In it, dead soldiers returning from Iraq emerge from their coffins and demand voting rights, a cause that finds easy support among Republicans (and Chicago natives) until they discover that the “zombie dissidents” intend to exercise their franchise for “anyone who will end this evil war.” We had planned to have you insert your own Cindy Sheehan joke here, but apparently the film’s creator (”Gremlin” and “Toy Soldiers” helmer Joe Dante) already thought of it. We’re at a loss to envision how the movie could possibly be even more offensive to those likely to be offended by these sorts of things, though we hear some of the dead soldiers are gay. MORE »