Instead Calvin naps on the couch and then a freak lightning storm from the strange electrical currents causes everyone who sees it to drop dead.

After he subdues her, his neighbor Ray shows up and tells Calvin Tina has bitten him and he had no choice but to kill her by striking her with a hammer.

[1][2] Flash forward two years and Calvin has adapted to his lifestyle of living in a world full of the un-dead.

He keeps his wife Ella chained up on the back porch of his house which is now a small fortress to keep the zombies at bay.

He even greets his former friend Ray, now a zombie after being bitten by Calvin's young daughter, as he drives away to run errands.

[3] One day some former inmates from a state mental hospital hear Calvin's broadcast on their car radio.

hostage and then to meet Reverend Mac who rules over the former inmates of the hospital, some of whom are clearly mentally ill, with the cult-like zeal of a Jim Jones.

Many locals from the Nacogdoches area performed as extras despite the East Texas heat and heavy layers of makeup.