Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

This surprisingly good low-budget (under $100,000) zombie film stars screenwriter Ormsby as the leader of a troupe of eccentric actors who travel to a small, lonely island on which there is a large cemetery and a house. Armed with the Book of the Dead, Ormsby digs up a corpse and names it "Orville," performing an elaborate ritual to imbue the body with life. Nothing happens. Disappointed but undaunted, Ormsby brings Orville into the house, and the troupe proceeds to have a party with the corpse as the guest of honor. After many (too many) bad cadaver jokes, the spell finally takes hold, and the dead in the cemetery begin to pull themselves out of the ground-...