The Return of the Living Dead

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Rating: 6.6 / 10 (228 votes cast)

In Theatre : Unknown
Director(s): Dan OBannon

Two employees of a medical supply company accidentally release a toxic gas that raises up the dead. Soon the town is overun with flesh-eating residents of the local cemetary who are hungry...for human brains.

"Do ya wanna party?" challenges the soundtrack to this freaky and funny reworking of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". Paced to the beat of a pounding rock score, this comic flesh feast delivers both laughs and outlandish gore. No longer lumbering, moaning creatures, these lithe, feral, and cunning undead claw their way out of the cemetery and into the skulls of a human smorgasbord.

They even master the art of home delivery: "Send more cops," croaks a corpse into a patrol car radio. Director Dan O'Bannon even takes pains to explain their motivation between the tributes to the granddaddy of zombie horrors.

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Return of the Living Dead (1985) Review by Decisi8...

It isn’t easy to do a movie about Zombies, and then make it funny…at least it isn’t easy to make someone like me laugh while watching one. Take for example the bomb that I call “Shaun of the Dea...

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Return of the Living Dead. A cult classic zombie flick that carries the 'DEAD' zombie torch that Romero began.. After the scary and gory 'DEAD' zombie movies there came Return of the Living Dead. A beloved 80's flick and...

The Return of the Living Dead Review by The Creatu...

This is one zombie film you absolutely cannot miss. It's a straight up classic that every horror fan must see. It's an unserious sequel to the original Night of the Living Dead and is directed by Dan O'Bannon, who is res...

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This movie is like punk rock meets “American Graffiti” meets “Night of the Living Dead,” when all mixed together you get Return of the Living Dead; probably one of the best zombie flicks that was ...

The Return of the Living Dead Review by gabs1515

If you were to describe this movie in one word, it would be FUN! This film has a special place in my heart because the first time I saw it was during Halloween night 2003. I rented 5 horror films I've never seen before a...

The Return of the Living Dead Review by TERRORWATC...

"Braaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnnssss", This movie must be possibly the best comedy horror movies Ive ever seen and ever going to see. It has everything to offer, loads of gore, loads of comedy and loads of fun, which makes a great...

Return of the Living Dead Review by Leon

The Return of the Living Dead series hasn't been praised much over the years and for good reason. The majority of these films flat out suck. With the exception of one. That one being the first...

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What is it exactly about a canister filled to the top with a noxious canister and a corpse that makes people want to be around it? Return of the Living Dead is the perfect zombie movie that takes its scares seriouly and ...

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This is my 30th review so im gonna write one on my fav type of horror movies zombie movies of course. in the year 1985 the world was introduced to a new type of zombie movie "Return of the living Dead" is no part 2 to Ge...

Return of the Living Dead Review by Googopqp

Return of the Living Dead is basically a sequel to Night of the Living Dead. Dan O' Bannon and George A. Romero each created Night of the Living Dead and they went their seperate ways in making zombie films. Dan O' Banno...

The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Review by Bla...

I have sinned. The Return of the Living Dead has been sitting in my DVD collection now for over a year and prior to this review I had refused to watch it. Now I have dusted off the cobwebs and taken it out of it's restin...

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