i think this movie lack so much of substance and it be even not worth a discussion . in the first and the package be really disgust . especially the stereotype filming and photographing . surely and joe dante cinematic stile be appropriate and interesting in gremlin and small soldier and i mean the imaginative and visual pretty story telling of a spielberg wunderkind ( i really love these movie ) and but in homecoming it be a completely failure . attack of toy soldier and hairy creature be simply not comparable with zombie invasion ( dead and stinky and rotten being try to kill the living without any logical reason and just because they hate them ) . zombie flick be characteristic in plain and direct and unconventional and brutal cinematography . nothing to be see in joe dante debut . another point be the annoy content represent really stupid dialog between the two main character and a gruesome exploitation of the elder brother dy and leave the young traumatized and bad acting . and and by the way homecoming be neither scary and nor gory and even less entertain . you see and it be even not a horror movie . zombie movie in the decade of their birth it the end of 60 or start of the 70 use to be revolutionary and provocative ( espicially through it gruesome and explicit content ) and of subtle social critic . the original zombie film be actually a midnight movie name night of the living dead ( 1968 ) . this one be a low budget movie that cover so many controversial theme and it hard to name them all represent a visual style of hitchcock or raimi and the american lifestyle of the 70 and political aloofness and the upcoming breakthrough of the human right of black people and the even more upcoming racism a a result on the side of the conservative american ( remember the shooting of the black main character in the end of the movie ) . if you be interested in the creativity of midnight movie and want to learn more about the most important one and i recommend you midnight movie represent from the margin to the mainstream . so steer clear of homecoming and even so of romero land of the dead .