No explanation is ever even given for Andy's return, what Andy has become or how Andy became that way, and none is really necessary. Just in Andy's case, he doesn't really return as the same species. After all, many soldiers who serve and are exposed to the misery, inhumanity and death of war clearly don't return home the same person. Though never really blatantly discussed, the anti-war sentiment rings loud and clear in this clever little film, which uses post traumatic stress as a metaphoric means to fuel its horror. Without it, he rapidly starts to age and will die. Little does she or anyone else realize, but Andy has somehow turned into a remorseless vampire-like fiend who needs fresh human blood to sustain himself. Christine thinks with a little time and understanding that Andy will eventually snap out of it. After all, who knows what kind of terrible things he witnessed in the war. Andy's father Charles ( John Marley), who has something of a drinking problem, gets fed up and frustrated in no short time, but Christine demands patience from the entire family. Andy spends his days and nights sitting in his room slowly rocking back and forth in a rocking chair and has a devilish grimace plastered on his face for no good reason. sometimes), but he's suddenly quiet, withdrawn, emotionless. Andy ( Richard Backus) does indeed return home, but the family's joy is short-lived upon the slow realization that their once kind, outgoing and upstanding young son has transformed into another beast entirely. As the old adage says "You better be careful what you wish for" just as one obscenely popular writer who shall remain nameless once intoned, "Sometimes dead is better." In this particular case, dead is definitely better.
Upon hearing the tragic news that her beloved son Andy has just been killed while serving in the Vietnam War, grieving mother Christine ( Lynn Carlin) wishes for his safe return, anyway.
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