Yea! What fools! I saw that movie on the Showtime free preview weekend.
(This is where Showtime tries to entice new subscribers to their movie channel by showing second run movies at least five years old, or movies where Pamela Anderson plays a walk on part.)
Anyway, unless there is a geeky kid with a totally hot girlfriend whose uncle works at the museum, the world is hosed if they open that coffin.
Plan B would be an alcoholic ex-cop who is too old for this kind of thing.
Plan C is the brilliant but underfunded scientist whose theories are scoffed at.
There is no plan D. Hollywood just recycles A-C.
Sure there is. There's got to be plenty of teenagers around for zombies to eat. And in any group of teens there will be...
A tough, square-jawed, stupidly good looking white-male, leader-type. And likely the same-type female. AND...they'll be from a restrictive home - think abusive military-type father, or maybe some sort of minister.
An incredibly smart Asian kid. Might be able to substitute a nerdy, skinny white guy. But only if he has glasses, and if they fall off at the worst possible times.
A tough, but sensitive Latino girl (may be black, or from PR)
A big dumb white football-type player.
A wisecracking black guy.
A sterotypical gay male, for comic relief.
And at least 1/2 dozen good-looking dumb blonde/brunette cheerleader types that like to run around with their clothes off.
Also, all of these people will be in High School, but will look about 25 or so, with no acne or other physical issues. They'll all have cars and be able to drive. All of them will drink, often to excess (and to the delight of the zombies) AND all of them will believe in hopping in and out of bed with each other, seemingly at random.
Wasn't that the way cliques in your HS were? Certainly was at mine.
I'll leave it up to you to pick which stereotype I was.