Published at 8:30 AM on October 7, 2009

By Michael Saba

The Artist Formerly Known as Napoleon Dynamite Woke Up Dead in a New Web Series

Vampires may be the monster du jour, but the rambling, shambling zombie has been riding a decade-long resurgence of popularity as unkillable as the ghouls themselves. And most of those interpretations of zombie-dom hew fairly close to the standard depiction of the recently un-dead: nasty disposition, decaying flesh and an insatiable hunger for human meat. But what happens when one of the living dead is, more or less, just like you and me?

That's the premise behind Woke Up Dead, a new web series starring Jon Heder (of cult-favorite flick Napoleon Dynamite). After a truly miserable day of pounding headaches and discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, Drex Greene wakes up one morning in a body bag, in the morgue. Apparently, he died. Rather, he died and came back to life, and his boorish roommate has taken it upon himself to document his newly-zombified friend.

The first five episodes are available on Crackle, with more on the way. Peep the first one right here:

 

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