Zombies rise again, in a new movie being filmed this month, with the help of a zombie master and the villain of Twin Peaks, Kenneth Welsh.

Welsh, who played the evil failed agent Windom Earle on the 1990s Twin Peaks, has been tapped for the cast of a movie by zombie king George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Monkey Shines and many more).


According to the website for Variety, the plot is about "inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure."

Welsh has worked in a number of movies and television shows since his stint on David Lynch's haunting mystery about the death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, including roles on the X-Files, Law and Order, Tilt, Smallville,  The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the Day After Tomorrow.

The film, which has no title yet, will be released in 2009.