I can really imagine the disappointment when you rented this movie on VHS expecting a film with all the elements the poster art promised. A zombie hand grabbing a sexy leg. Well, there aren't any real Romero-style zombies or sexy moments at all in this flick. It's so dull and boring that it doesn't work as a horror film nor as a screwball comedy.
Not even the eighties vibe could fix this tone deaf film of half-assed prudish ideas.

The only thing keeping it somewhat interesting were the actors like Virginia Madsen and Sherylin Fenn. Upcoming director Paul Feig also starred in it as a goofball, showing he couldn't ad-lib his horrible lines beyond coming off as obnoxious, something that would become even more apparent when he was running the 2016 "Ghostbusters" film, a film with some of the worst ad-libbing I've ever seen.

Most of the running time is wasted on a creepy and awkward affair between a biology teacher and a student played by Virginia Madsen.
It's the eighties equivalent of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight franchise, but without the consent. It halted every moment for horror or comedy.

Rebellious students disappear and return as reformed "zombies" to become our future leaders and CEO's, as the filmmakers wanted to force some superficial satire in there, and there's lots of boring "investigative" Nancy Drew stuff.

There're no kills nor any nudity, if you'd remove all the swearing it would've been a PG-rated film, and no interesting monster make-up except some interestingly done old-age make-up.

It's inept filmmaking with monomaniacal co-writer/producer Aziz Ghazal being the one mostly responsible for the finished product, someone who didn't know what worked or was needed for an entertaining horror movie. After receiving writer Tim Doyle's pages, he rewrote everything from a vampire story to what it eventually turned out.

Absolutely nothing resembling the craziness that's mostly associated with eighties horror, a complete waste of resources, money and film stock.