Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

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Dr. Menard: The boat can leave now. Tell the crew.
Newspaper Editor-in-Chief: West, keep the British accent out of your prose. Don't take advantage of the fact that your uncle owns the paper.
Peter West: As if I would.
Peter West: What is all this about the dead coming back to life again and... having to be killed a second time? I mean, what the hell's going on here?