Dead of Night

Andy is back from Vietnam, as his parents always knew he would be - and that note the Army sent about his death must have been just a terrible mistake. Or was it? Andy certainly has changed. And strange things did start to happen around the time he came home….
Veterans as remnants of already bygone societies as well as zombies haunting their homes have been with cinema since WWI (at least), for example the amnesiac vet sleepwalking through a strange new world in Fridrikh Ermler’s monumental Oblomok imperii (1929), or, more recently, the zombie-vets rising and setting things right in their old neighbourhoods in William Lustig’s Uncle Sam (1997) or Joe Dante’s Homecoming (2005). Still, the most compact, forceful riff on this theme, and also somehow the most immediate, remains Dead of Night.