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The movie opens on a [[Action Prologue|news report]], being narrated by the [[Final Girl]], explaining the reasoning behind the movie itself. The main story line starts of with a group of film students, along with their sardonic boozing professor, making a classic cliched horror movie. When the group hears escalating radio reports of people coming back from the dead, the shoot falls apart, with monster-player Ridley departing in his sport car as the rest of the group leaves in a Winnebago.
The cameraman/director, Jason, decides to return to their university to pick up his girlfriend, Debra, but the Winnebago plows through a group of zombies on the road along the way; still skeptical that they are in fact the walking dead, {{spoiler|the grief-stricken driver, Mary, shoots herself}}. The others take her to a hospital, which turns out to be
Heading for Debra's home, they have encounters with the zombie-movie equivalent of [[Wacky Wayside Tribe
The group finds Ridley alive, but come to the painfully belated realization that {{spoiler|the rest of his family is dead or walking dead, and he has been bitten}}. Still wearing his mummy movie-costume, he ends up reenacting the opening horror movie scene; Tracy, the "victim" in the horror movie, becomes disgusted and drives off in the Winnebago. {{spoiler|Ridley}} kills two of the group, including {{spoiler|Jason,}} and the movie ends with {{spoiler|Debra, the professor and Tony}} watching from a "panic room" as a growing horde of zombies slowly breaks into the estate.
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]
* [[Action Girl]] / [[Heroic Bystander]]: In the opening scene, a female paramedic karate-kicks a zombie in the head.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: With horror movies, but clearly not with zombie movies.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: The Amish farmer Samuel kills himself some zombies and offs himself and the zombie who bit him by shoving a scythe through his and the zombie's head.
* [[Humans Are
** Which is odd, since the film didn't make any overall comment on humanity except for this last scene at the very end.
** Nor did it imply zombies are anything other than shambling killers with no value.
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