Zombie mayhem descends on a high-school prom as the dead rise to eat the celebrating kids. It’s the geeks unable to get a date that are left to save the town from the undead, armed only with bats, garden tools and guitars.

Falling into the Idle Hands category of teen horror comedy, Dance of the Dead is the product of low budget filmmaking. It’s one thing to envision this sort of project under lesser funding, it’s quite another to actually pull it off. A certain plastic fantastic veneer is required emulate the kind of MTV movies this [...]