Also known as The Horror Star and Body Snatchers, this is the tale of Conrad Razkoff (Ferdy Mayne), a horror film star who fakes his death or maybe not, but definitely exists beyond life and death as he wipes out a drama class.

Before that, Ragzoff is in a dentures commercial, and the director argues with him over his acting, so Ragzoff shoves him off a balcony. Then, he visits the drama school and faints from excitement, revived by one of the students, Meg (Jennifer Starrett).

That night, he decides to die and tells his director, Wolfgang (Leon Askin), what he wants for his funeral. As he expires — or fakes it — Wolfgang says, “The world is rid of you, and I am rid of you. Good night, sweet prince of ham!” The great actor rises and kills the disbeliever with a pillow.

Meg, Saint (Luca Bercovici, the director of Ghoulies), Bobo (Scott Thomson, Copeland from the Police Academy series), Eve (Carlene Olson), Donna (Donna McDaniel, Angel), Oscar (Alan Stock) and Stu (Jeffrey Combs, cast for his hair color, really) go to the cemetery after dark to see Ragzoff’s tomb. A film begins, cursing them, before they steal the body and head off to an old mansion in time for the coffin to explode and all sorts of murder, including tongue ripping, black magic and crypt gas.

By the end, the police show up to find Meg surrounded by her dead friends and Conrad rising from his grave to kill a fake psychic and joins his wife, at which point we see the video inside the tomb with the actor saying how much he enjoys being in Hell.

I’m obsessed with the films of Norman Thaddeus Vane, like The Black Room and Midnight. Plus, the scenes of Conrad being a horror star are really Christopher Lee in Uncle Was a Vampire. It’s strange and wonderful. That’s what I want in all my movies.

The Troma “Tromatic Special Edition” Blu-ray includes extras such as the DVD Intro featuring Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rechon, an archival audio interview with director Norman Thaddeus Vane, historical commentary with David Del Valle and David DeCoteau, audio commentary from The Hysteria Continues, the original trailer, artwork gallery, an interview with DP Joel King, Troma behind-the-scenes and music videos. You can get it from MVD.