Hiram, that's not bad, not bad at all. It is almost pathetic: they simply want to be whole again, and the desire for life is one of the strongest urges out there. The audience can identify with that, and we can earn their sympathies by starting small and working up: an annoying dog, a flock of sheep, a pickup full of drunken cowboys leaving one of those roadside bars, then the farmhouse with the determined woman guarding her family to no avail. At some point we'll cross the line and the audience will be forced to decide if all life is valuable, or only ours. The art will be more difficult. Just animating skeletons is easy, and they'd be good for the entire movie. If we need partially fleshed skeletons, too, it would add to the budget. The other problem is the gruesomeness factor: the folks doing The Mummy managed to keep much of the ickiness off-screen and preserved their family-friendly rating. We'd have to ensure that teenagers everywhere would have access to this flick. Just thought of something else! We could have an ancient indian shaman seeing a vision of this, with an earnest young person from the Smithsonian taking it all down as "one of the old fairytales used to make children behave and stay close to camp" as part of the prologue. The interpreter (great-grandkid?) would be futilely trying to get the researcher to understand that it isn't an old story, it is a new story, and it hasn't happened yet... when the catalyst happens, and there is a glow in the northern(?) skies. Having a chronicler on hand is an old invention, but very useful to us storytellers. BTW, my handle elsewhere is Shahrazad... now you know why. :) Carolly