TomWeaver999 wrote:
Susan Douglas (the leading lady ... now married to Jan Rubes, the villain in DEAD OF WINTER) watched it again before she talked to me, and one of the things she did, very humorously, was pick it apart ("How come all the dead people turn to skeletons in the time it takes me to walk home?", "My character survived because she was pregnant and getting an x-ray. Pregnant women don't GET x-rayed!", etc., etc.).
It does seem unlikely that everybody would be "skeletized" in such a short period of time, but the "science" falls down in so many of these movies. In World/Flesh/Devil, the planet is encircled by radioactive dust (from "sodium isotopes") which is lethal for around five days. Why didn't everyone just take shelter for a week? Why isn't there a single corpse in all of Manhattan? Alas, if one analyzes too closely, the fun of these films falls apart.

C.