The Groundskeeper
The Groundskeeper
10/1/2026 | 15m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
After Nick steals a precious necklace, he accidentally awakens all the dead in Oakmont Cemetery.
After Nick steals a precious necklace, he accidentally awakens all the dead in Oakmont Cemetery. Part of "WQED's Dead Air" this short George Romero-esque film by a local Pittsburgher, proves that everyone loves zombies.
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The Groundskeeper is a local public television program presented by WQED
The Groundskeeper
The Groundskeeper
10/1/2026 | 15m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
After Nick steals a precious necklace, he accidentally awakens all the dead in Oakmont Cemetery. Part of "WQED's Dead Air" this short George Romero-esque film by a local Pittsburgher, proves that everyone loves zombies.
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Whoa, whoa.
Easy.
I'm Nick, the new guy.
We spoke on the phone.
Oh, sorry.
We've been having a lot of unwelcome guests around here lately.
Yeah.
Grave robbers.
I'm Owen.
That's Sean.
You'll be working with him.
Actually, I'm glad you called, cause we don't get too many people that want to work in a graveyard.
Don't mind as long as you're paying.
Yeah, well, I got to run into town.
A couple jack offs tore a hole in the fence, so I got to go and find something to patch it up.
Anyway good luck to you, kid.
This the lady everyone's been talking about?
Wealthiest woman in Oakmont.
No one even showed up to pick out her casket.
Sad.
Wonder what will happen to all that money?
Can't take it with you.
Shame.
Grab a side.
All right.
Where's the hole?
That well dig ourselves.
I prefer to have her in the ground by now, but.
Well, good thing she's not going anywhere, right?
All right, now we'll fill it.
You got anything to eat around here?
We'll eat dinner later.
Well, what about something to drink?
You know the dirt.
My throat.
It's awfully dry.
Are you serious?
Stay put.
I wont move a muscle.
Can't take it with you.
Hey, what are you doing in there?
Oh, it looked like it was popping open.
Just wanted to add an extra nail or two.
- Get out of there.
We still have to fill it.
Then we'll eat.
For your throat.
Thank God were done.
Grant her sister Edith may sleep here in peace, and awaken to your glory.
We are the resurrection and the life.
Amen.
Now we can eat.
You pray every time.
I do.
Don't you think it's a bit theatrical?
I get if the family's there, but if they got no one, it's like.
Who are you saying it for?
You say it for them.
Something funny?
I don't know, it just seems like horse[____].
Horse[____].
Burying someone and begging the Lord to take their soul isn't horse[____].
What do you think happens when we die?
That's it.
Poof!
If you want to play make believe, that's fine, but I'm not gonna.
We owe it to that person to show them enough of decency and respect for the life they've lived.
That isn't a person in there.
It's just meat.
How can you say that?
Haven't you ever had someone you cared for?
Everyone I know got what they had coming.
I'm sure everyone here did too.
Better watch your mouth.
Get your hands off me!
Hey, man.
The cemetery is closed.
What the hell?
That isn't a man.
We got to go.
This is bad.
We gotta go.
Come on.
Where are we going?
We're getting the hell out of here.
[___]!
Come on!
Get up!
Come on.
What the [___] are those things?
The dead.
You're kidding.
- I am not.
Well, what do they want with us?
Did you do anything out of the ordinary today?
Something that would anger the dead.
You can't anger the dead.
Theyre, they're dead.
Well they seem pretty angry to me.
By the bench should be an old pistol in there.
So what do we do?
- In the back of the cemetery, there's a hole in a fence.
We squeeze through.
We can get to the main road.
When I left you alone down by the grave.
Are you sure nothing happened?
Sean!
Give me your gun.
- What?
I have an idea.
Alright, go!
The exit is just right up there.
If you go now, you can make it.
What, you're just gonna lie here?
I don't think I'm in much shape to come with you kid.
I took her necklace.
I found this on the ground by the shed.
I figured you dropped it.
Why didn't you say something?
I had faith that you would do the right thing.
Look, there's still a way for you to fix this.
How?
- You have to return it.
How the hell am I gonna do that?
She's in the middle of all of them.
That's why I'll distract them for you.
You can barely walk.
I'm still faster than them.
We can find another way.
I believe in you, kid.
No, Sean.
Sean!
Come get me!
Over here!
Come on!
Edith.
Here to return your necklace.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Sean.
Sean.
Dear Lord.
I'm not very good at this, so forgive me.
You know, I'm just going to restart.
Dear Lord, grant that our brother Sean may sleep here in peace.
He was.
He was a good man.
Grant that he will be reunited with his family.
I think that's what he would have wanted.
Amen.
I wanted to be a zombie so bad.
And no, you're not good enough.
So they made me played a stupid character named Sean.
- Hes the main character.
Yeah, so.
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