She's unperturbed by the ghoul horde, strolling among them and dicing them with her katana. The most capable character is the new undertaker at the Ever After Funeral Home, Zelda Winston ( Tilda Swinton). Hank Thompson ( Danny Glover) locks himself in his hardware store with fellow local businessman Bobby Wiggins (Caleb Landry Jones), who sells pop culture memorabilia at his gas station, including posters for horror movies that Jarmusch probably saw five times in theaters.

Frank Miller ( Steve Buscemi), the aforementioned farmer who accused Hermit Bob of chicken-stealing, barricades himself in his farmhouse. The other townspeople respond with varying degrees of panic and resourcefulness. Commercial radio goes in and out, except when a station plays Sturgill Simpson's 'The Dead Don't Die,' which, as Ronnie helpfully informs us, is the theme song of the film you're watching. What will they do when things fall apart? The news is saying the world has spun off its axis.

The police are are so used to routine that in the opening scene, when a local hermit named Bob ( Tom Waits) responds to their queries about a farmer's stolen chicken by shooting at them, they get back in their car and drive away. Their colleague, officer Minerva 'Mindy' Morrison ( Chloe Sevigny), is a wreck, like Veronica Cartwright cratering in the original ' Alien.' We know this because he says it no less than four times, until the phrase fills Cliff with both annoyance and dread. His second-in-command, Officer Ronnie Petersen ( Adam Driver), is convinced that things are sure to end badly. Chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray) hopes the zombie plague will be reversed, or recede on its own.

The local cops are our guides through this low-energy onslaught. When shot or slashed, the dead don't bleed, but instead emit puffs of soot. ('Skittles.') One zombie (horror film veteran Larry Fessenden) snacks on an arm as if were a turkey leg. Zombie children loiter in a ruined candy store, muttering brand names like incantations. You know the drill from all the other zombie films released in the last half-century-in particular George Romero's 1978 'Dawn of the Dead,' a satire on consumerism in general, American materialism specifically. Zombies take over the small town of Centerville (location unnamed, although the film was shot in upstate New York) and commence wandering the land they knew, repeating actions that once defined them, like swinging a tennis racket, or dragging a guitar or lawnmower around. Jim Jarmusch's style is so singular that if you fall in love with it, as some of us did over 30 years ago with 'Stranger than Paradise,' you'll believe there's no such thing as a bad Jarmusch picture, because you'll judge each new film in relation to Jarmusch's best, not what anyone else might've theoretically done with the same material. 'The Dead Don't Die' is far from Jarmusch's best, but there's something to be said for its zonked-out acceptance of extinction.

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