Somewhere in Kuwait during the Gulf War, a military unit uncovers and inspects an American helicopter that was accidentally shot down as a result of friendly fire. During the inspection, they find Master Sergeant Sam Harper's extra crispy, burnt, dying body, who springs to life and during his last breaths, kills a sergeant and major out of revenge before dying.

Weeks later, days before July 4th weekend, Sam's body is shipped back to the US to his family's home in Twin Rivers, New Jersey. His wife, Louise receives the casket containing his remains but upon discovering there's new room in her house for it, allows his sister, Sally to keep it who lives with her patriotic son, Jody. In addition to being pro-American, he also looked up to Sam as a role model, not knowing that Sam was a degenerative alcoholic who abused his wife and sister. And Jody absolutely hates it when anyone says anything negative about Sam, America, or war.

At midnight on July 4th, some degenerative teens are creeping around the graveyard, find an American flag and light it on fire. Some of the flames from the fire touch on Sam's empty grave, triggering Sam's corpse from within the casket to resurrect. Sam moves through the night and first kills some teenage kid in an Uncle Sam outfit and takes the outfit before.

The following afternoon on Independence Day at the town's local 4th of July picnic, Sam goes on a killing spree, killing anyone that crosses his path or who he sees as unpatriotic. With the body count quickly rising, young Jody learns the truth about who his uncle Sam (no pun intended) really was and his views of him change immediately. Because Jody has some sort of weird trance over Sam, he's aided by Sam's former commander, Jed to put down the sadistic, zombified Uncle Sam

Overall: There have been horror movies made about Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Years Eve, and now...Independence Day. I'd been wanting to see Uncle Sam to see what it was like so I gave it a watch this 4th of July. It's an okay film but it's not horribly bad. I suppose some better plotting could've gone into the movie. You're telling me that a man's only purpose--who fried to death over accidental gunfire in the war; for coming back to life is to kill off some people in a small town that you feel don't appreciate the country?? I don't buy it. Perhaps the biggest plot hole of all that I want answered in this movie is why there kids are in school in July? Aren't schools out for the summer in July? And you can't possibly tell me that all those kids in there are part of summer school class. Also the first half of the film is spent with I'll give this film props for making the Uncle Sam villain in this look like a creep both masked and unmasked. I'm not sure if the director meant for this film to be serious or not because if he did, it turned out to be extremely comical as I highly doubt anyone that's ever watched this movie and will ever watch this movie, will take it seriously. Somehow despite the bunch load of flaws contained in this movie, I still found myself enjoying it to an extent. I'm not sure if it's because I have a knack for bad-good horror films or if I just love old school horror movies no matter how bad they are. Overall, I guess you could give this a watch to see if it fits your standards. If you want to give this a watch, I recommend renting this from Amazon first to see if it'll meet your expectations and go from there. I guess I've found my yearly Independence Day horror movie to watch
Somewhere in Kuwait during the Gulf War, a military unit uncovers and inspects an American helicopter that was accidentally shot down as a result of friendly fire. During the inspection, they find Master Sergeant Sam Harper's extra crispy, burnt, dying body, who springs to life and during his last breaths, kills a sergeant and major out of revenge before dying. Weeks later, days before July 4th weekend, Sam's body is shipped back to the US to his family's home in Twin Rivers, New Jersey. His wife, Louise receives the casket containing his remains but upon discovering there's new room in her house for it, allows his sister, Sally to keep it who lives with her patriotic son, Jody. In addition to being pro-American, he also looked up to Sam as a role model, not knowing that Sam was a degenerative alcoholic who abused his wife and sister. And Jody absolutely hates it when anyone says anything negative about Sam, America, or war. At midnight on July 4th, some degenerative teens are creeping around the graveyard, find an American flag and light it on fire. Some of the flames from the fire touch on Sam's empty grave, triggering Sam's corpse from within the casket to resurrect. Sam moves through the night and first kills some teenage kid in an Uncle Sam outfit and takes the outfit before. The following afternoon on Independence Day at the town's local 4th of July picnic, Sam goes on a killing spree, killing anyone that crosses his path or who he sees as unpatriotic. With the body count quickly rising, young Jody learns the truth about who his uncle Sam (no pun intended) really was and his views of him change immediately. Because Jody has some sort of weird trance over Sam, he's aided by Sam's former commander, Jed to put down the sadistic, zombified Uncle Sam

Overall: There have been horror movies made about Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Years Eve, and now... Independence Day. I'd been wanting to see Uncle Sam to see what it was like so I gave it a watch this 4th of July. It's an okay film but it's not horribly bad. I suppose some better plotting could've gone into the movie. You're telling me that a man's only purpose--who fried to death over accidental gunfire in the war; for coming back to life is to kill off some people in a small town that you feel don't appreciate the country?? I don't buy it. Perhaps the biggest plot hole of all that I want answered in this movie is why there kids are in school in July? Aren't schools out for the summer in July? And you can't possibly tell me that all those kids in there are part of summer school class. Also the first half of the film is spent with I'll give this film props for making the Uncle Sam villain in this look like a creep both masked and unmasked. I'm not sure if the director meant for this film to be serious or not because if he did, it turned out to be extremely comical as I highly doubt anyone that's ever watched this movie and will ever watch this movie, will take it seriously. Somehow despite the bunch load of flaws contained in this movie, I still found myself enjoying it to an extent. I'm not sure if it's because I have a knack for bad-good horror films or if I just love old school horror movies no matter how bad they are. Overall, I guess you could give this a watch to see if it fits your standards. If you want to give this a watch, I recommend renting this from Amazon first to see if it'll meet your expectations and go from there. I guess I've found my yearly Independence Day horror movie to watch