The Return of the Living Dead

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Omar G Return of the Living Dead (1985). Some good shots, The three sexy chicks Beverly Randolph, Jewel Shepard and Linnea Quigley my favorite. A good cast Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Miguel A. Nunez Jr. Generational meeting of the fiftys and twentys year olds. 1969 in Pittsburgh, hospital for veterans. A chemical Trioxin-245 was spilled, it leaked into the morgue and made the corpses move as if they were alive. Dan O'Bannon director and screenwriter, Will Stout drew some scenes. I liked the shot of the old 50s car with the residue of the punks Suicide and Scuz. The name of Resurrection Cemetery. Good The soundtrack and the songs my favorite Surfin' Dead - The Cramps, with the sexy redhead guitarist Ivy Rorschach. The ending where the government destroys the city with all its tax-paying civilians, who later plagiarized O'Bannon in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). The walking decapitated corpse was before Re-Animator (1985). The zombies are very dangerous, gliding, running and almost invincible. The classic scene of interrogating a corpse in half by O'Bannon as in Dark Star (1974), Alien (1979), Lifeforce (1985). Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/09/24 Full Review Payton M Girl please put some clothes on. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/06/24 Full Review Dead I Love it‼️💯🪦 Never gets old‼️💯🪦 They can't and don't make them like this anymore‼️💯🪦 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Tyler B This is a hot, hot movie! I give it three wet kisses, and half of a punk rock punch! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/25/24 Full Review Chris D Funny. Scary. Short. Sharp. Perfect. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/23/24 Full Review Ben D The pinnacle of 1980s zombie-horror camp, The Return of the Living Dead was meta before meta became tedious and introduced many of the tropes we know today into the subgenre vernacular. Talking zombies who specifically want brains? This is where it comes from. On their own and as a concept, these zombies are not my favorite. They’re extremely smart — one uses the radio from an ambulance to call for “more paramedics” i.e. more brains — and they are basically impossible to kill. When they (Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Matthews) do finally kill one, “Murphy’s Law” ensues and the smoke that pollutes the air from the crematorium coats the adjacent graveyard and you can predict where it goes from there. However, the movie is so campy and fun that it doesn’t matter that our human characters don’t stand a chance against the ravenous horde. The practical effects are what you expect and want, most notably being the “Tarman Zombie” (Allan Trautman) and “Female Torso Zombie” (Cherry Davis (voice)). The punk/alt soundtrack adds to the kitschy pastiche and at times presents more like a music video than movie. According to the sentient “Female Torso Zombie,” they eat brains to dull the pain of death. Brutal. A must-see for horror aficionados and 1980s cinema. Part II is already on the list. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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