Friday, June 5, 2009

Working Stiffs (1989)

Consolidated Temp Agency or Con Temps for short, has a plan to make lots of money.  They kill their employees then bring them back as workaholic zombies.  This way their clients get great workers and they can pocket all the paychecks, thus increasing their profits.

The zombies look normal, unless they've been stabbed or if they eat salt.  Salt is the real detriment here as one taste of it and our temp workers turn into blue faced, hollowed eyed stiffs.

The only person who notices the odd behavior of the temps is a temp worker from another agency who asks her brother to help figure out what is going on.  At one point while her brother distracts a zombie worker, our non-zombie temp takes a hammer out and pounds repeatedly on the zombies hand and he never even notices.

For a no budget movie, this holds up really well.  The comedy often  falls flat, but it's not that painful forced comedy of many low budge movies.  It's not a great movie by any  means, but it does have it's own charm and I enjoyed watching it.

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