Years ago, Roger Lassen (Clancy Brown) made a dirty deal somewhere in the rainforest. Now, he’s being called on to look at the body of a dead business partner, Dan King (Costas Mandylor). All that greed, all those underhanded schemes, they’re all about to come back to haunt him.

“”Ooh, I just love how your hair has groan out! A little scream rinse and conditioner, and it’ll look fa-boo! If you don’t look dead, we don’t look dead. Oh, hello, kiddies! You’re right on time for your appointment. You know, it was always one of my ghouls in death to open my own scare salon. Now, let’s see…a few shrieks in your hair would look good. A boo-faunt would look even better! Or maybe you’d like to try tonight’s die-fashion statement. It’s a nasty nugget that asks the question, zom-bie or not zom-bie. I call it “Halfway Horrible.””

Directed and written by Gregory Widen, who also directed The Prophecy and wrote Highlander and Backdraft, this has Martin Kove as a detective and Cheech Marin as a witch doctor. But yeah, Clancy Brown was also in Highlander and just like he did in that movie, he chops off the head of someone — a zombie — with a sword.

It turns out that Roger’s company has created a preservative called Exthion-B that is based on Brazilian black magic and ritual sacrifice. Anything to get ahead in the world, huh? Well, as stated above, it comes back on the CEO, making half of him a rotted zombie.

This episode is based on “Half-Way Horrible!,” which was in Vault of Horror #21. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Sid Check.