Dead Of Night 1974 Screenplay by Alan Ormsby and direction by Bob Clark. Bob is the guy who directed A Christmas Story and Porky's. He made several horror films earlier in his career. It's was later retitled Deathdream.
An odd horror film about a dead soldier returning home from Vietnam. Richard Backus plays the soldier, John Marley plays his father and Lynn Carlin plays the mom. The parents are surprised when Richard shows up in the middle of the night, they'd recently had word from the government that he had died in Vietnam. Richard won't say much of anything and he acts oddly. What his parent don't know is that Richard's animated corpse has turned into a vicious killer, he killed the man who gave him a lift to town and he continues to kill while the police are investigating.
It's bit above average. I'd seen it a bunch of years ago and had forgotten most of the story. It's not a happy one and a few people die. Interesting sort of comment about PSTD at a time that many young men were coming home from the war all fucked up and no one much cared for them. It was an early film for make up artist Tom Savini. You can see it on YouTube in the link above. Sort of worth a look.
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