History Film / ZombieNightmare

* CanadaEh: Park Harpell is in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal.

* CassandraTruth: The cops on scene practically roll their eyes at the waitress' story that a giant was the killer, despite Jim Batten being impaled by a ''baseball bat''.

Flash forward to the present day, and Tony is all grown up (now played by Jon-Mikl Thor), playing softball on the same field. That evening, he becomes a hero in his own right, foiling a convenience store holdup. Unfortunately, as he walks outside, he's the victim of a hit and run courtesy of a bunch of idiot kids, one of whom is the son of the thugs that killed his father.

* AntiHero: The zombified Tony and Molly the HollywoodVoodoo lady. Also Frank, the JerkAss detective.
* AssholeVictim: ''Nobody'' mourns when Jim Batten is killed. That includes his parents, according to his father Fred, a friend of Churchman, tells him.
* TheBadGuyWins: If you consider Tony the villain, as stops attacking people right after he finishes killing everyone he had been raised to kill.
** However; Considering the fact that Tony was once a good guy who foiled a robbery and assault and was resurrected by a Voodoo Priestess to kill a bunch of mostly genuine Bad Guys, one can't really count this movie as TheBadGuyWins or a DownerEnding.

* BittersweetEnding: While a few sympathetic characters do die (usually as collateral damage or by the real doomed villains), the primary target of the zombies are a corrupt police chief and a group of young delinquents led by an annoying psychopath... who all get dispatched.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Jim [[DiscussedTrope claims]] that he wanted to have sex with his older sister.
-->'''Waitress:''' I'm old enough to be your big sister.\\

* CassandraTruth: The cops on scene practically roll their eyes at the waitress' story that a giant was the killer, despite having something as impossible as a body impaled by a ''baseball bat'' as their victim.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Churchman flat-out ignores the coroner's report and tells the press that the first zombie killings were a drug-induced murder/suicide.
* {{Delinquents}}: Our four teenage leads, most of who exist to pad out the runtime and the body count.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Churchman has killed Tony and Molly, and looks to to be about to do the same to Frank, when all of a sudden, Tony's zombified father bursts out of his grave and drags Churchman to Hell.]]
* DirtyCop: Captain Churchman, and maybe most of his department.
* DownerEnding: There's probably four surviving named characters, though you might consider this the VillainProtagonist variant, as Tony was sent in response to rectify terrible misdeeds, and it explicitly spares the most innocent and uninvolved characters (even if one of them still gets tossed around).
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: Churchman]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Churchman]] begs Frank for a MercyKill while being DraggedOffToHell, but Frank decides not to shoot him.

* ForTheEvulz: The apparent motivation for Churchman and Fred attacking and almost raping Molly in the first place can be seen as a mix of racism and sadism. The later hit-and-run averts the trope, since it was a genuine accident and Jim is the only one who feels pleased about it.
* GroinAttack: Subverted. Tony attacks a thief with his groin.
* HateSink: Jim Batten, the only teen who shows joy at killing Tony and later tries to rape a waitress. Not even his own parents can stand him, and they don't even mourn when he dies.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Pretty much the extent of the "voodoo" in this movie is Molly putting on skull make-up and bringing Tony back as a zombie to avenge his killers.
* IdiotBall: The incredibly violent suspect at the police station somehow fails to be restrained by three or four officers. Captain Churchman exacerbates the situation by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kicking the perp in the head, enraging him]].
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: Jim Batten is not beaten by a metal baseball bat, but '''impaled''' by it.

* LargeHam: Shawn Levy as Jim Batten. Adam West as Churchman.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Fred, Jim's father, was one of the delinquents who attacked and nearly raped Molly. His son is similarly evil, if not more so.

* MisplacedRetribution: Tony is sent after those who killed him (and his father). While [[spoiler:Churchman and Jim's father Fred]] were both actively involved in the assault on Molly, Jim's passengers didn't do anything except be in the same car that killed Tony. They're generally unpleasant people, but they had no agency in the killing (and are varying levels of shaken up about it, unlike Jim), while other unrelated characters who got in the way were spared (it also makes the other armed robber look like a KarmaHoudini by comparison).
* NeutralFemale: Tony's mother in the opening segment.
** The blond chick from Jim's gang, too. She's the only one who seems to have a conscience by feeling even the tiniest bit guilty about running down Tony. Yet for some reason, she receives the most brutal death out of any of the gang.
** [[UselessProtagonist Neutral Male]]: Frank.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Both characters helping someone in trouble get killed immediately, one as a direct result of helping, and the other by getting caught in a hit and run shortly afterwards.
* PoliceAreUseless: Churchman is more interested in closing cases than solving them. Frank at least tries to do a proper investigation, but he's not very good at it.

** He later harshly instructs the uniformed police, "Get her outta here."
* TheSociopath: Jim Batten is all but said to be a psychopath, given that he stalks and attempts to rape a waitress, throws food at his mother's face, and relishes snuffing Tony's lights out.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Tony successfully stops an armed assault and walks away, unlike his father. And then he's immediately killed by an unrelated car. In a bit of an exaggeration, everyone in the movie just knows he's dead immediately, even the reckless driver who wasn't paying attention in the first place (they only doubt it when they don't see anything in the paper). It's to the point that Tony's friends don't even bother calling an ambulance, and simply deliver him to his mother's lawn under a sheet.

** Pass by the exit sign when being pursued by a zombie. Also make sure to stop while still in the same room as said zombie.
** Sit in your car, and don't turn it on. Also be sure to leave the door wide open.
** Hide behind a window.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Peter and Suzie strip down to their underwear and climb into the hot tub at the health club. However, their intimacy is interrupted by the appearance of the zombified Tony. According to the janitor, this little hot tub celebration was traditional after their tennis matches.
* UselessProtagonist: Presumably, Frank ends up being the hero, through no extraordinary effort of his own. He was at least correct that the murders weren't caused by a common street thug.
** TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tony's mother features consistently in the plot and at first kicks off the whole zombie thing by calling in a favor. She eventually disappears from the movie, however, and when [[spoiler:Molly dies making sure that Churchman]] is dragged off, it's treated like the entire affair just wrapped itself up, even though a primary instigator is still out there.

* ForTheEvulz: The apparent motivation for Churchman and Fred attacking and almost raping Molly in the first place can be seen as a mix of racism and sadism. The later hit-and-run averts the trope, since it was a genuine accident that Jim is the only one who feels pleased about.