I Was a Teenage Zombie is a 1987 American comedy horror film.[1]
The film begins with teens looking to purchase some marijuana. The film plays with comedy horror conventions, when a drug dealer is pushed into the river and becomes a zombie.
Writing in the Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called it an “irreverent amateur parody of high school romance films in the Sixteen Candles tradition.”[2] Dendle cited the film as one of the forebears of the zombie romantic comedy trend of the 1980s and 1990s.[2]