The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)

Thing I never understood about zombie movies is why there were so many dead bodies lying around waiting to come back to life. In this one, we see the undead digging their way out of their graves, so it makes some sense. The regular living people recognize their old neighbors. A man recognizes some nice guys who died in a car wreck two years earlier. I guess it's possible with modern embalming.

The undead children made me sad. The living dead are drawn to things they did when they were alive. The children look for toys and candy. Bill Murray as police chief says, "I knew those kids!"

Bill Murray was pushing seventy. As in a lot of roles like this, it's better to have an actor who's too old than a more plausible age.

I would have liked the movie better if not for what they did at the end. They had a perfectly nice zombie movie, one about old people. They tend to talk calmly, in mundane terms. But then they talked about being actors in a zombie movie.

Tilda Swinton as a Scottish undertaker with a samurai sword.

Danny Glover, Steve Buscemi as a farmer in a MAGA hat, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tom Waits, Jahi Winston, Taliyah Whitaker, Rosie Perez, Carol Kane, Selena Gomez.

Even the kids playing child zombies had long lists of credits.