Halloween 2007

Throughout October, read up on the best of the horror genre

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'Dead' Ringers: George A. Romero's Living Legacy

With the director's ''Diary of the Dead'' now in theaters, we look at the entire ''Dead'' genre his ''Night of the Living Dead'' gave life to — from the fresh to the decayed
| Feb 15, 2008
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave: Sci Fi Channel

''Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis'' and ''Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave''

(both 2005)

DIRECTOR Ellory Elkayem, who also shot and wrote 2002's Eight Legged Freaks

CALL THEM... The Ones That Aired on SciFi

PREMISE Necropolis focuses on the damage done by Hybra-Tech, a company that was not only on the front lines of the Chernobyl clean-up but also makes snack foods (!), first-person-shooter videogames, and bioweapons out of the dead (sound familiar?). In Rave to the Grave, a canister of the 245 Trioxin is used to make Z, a type of ecstasy. It's called Z because when you're tripping on it, you just stand there like a zombie — and eventually you turn into one. (Neither movie had a major release in theaters; they both aired on TV's SciFi network.)

BEST ZOMBIE From Necropolis: The futuristic female cyborg who has a circular saw for a hand and PVC tubing as hair.

GORIEST DEATH From Rave to the Grave: the zombie frat boy who gets drumsticks through his eyes.