The Return of the Living Dead (DVD)

Release in 1985 and directed by Dan O'Bannon, The Return Of The Living Dead is a comedy horror (more comedy than horror by today's standards), and stars Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa. The film begins with a man who has just started a new job at a medical supply warehouse. While his boss is giving him the grand tour, he talks about a gas (Trioxin) that was developed by the military. He is then shown someone's remains contained in a machine in the warehouse's basement. Naturally the two men accidentally damage the machine and some of the gas it contains awakens that within. The men then make the situation a lot worse when they try to "kill" ...  Read the complete review

The Return of the Living Dead harks back to the days when zombie movies were a clunkier, but much more charming, affair, relying on dead-eyed extras in gelatinous make-up rather than CGI nightmares of doom. Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 horror comedy set during the Mohawk-sporting era of American punk, in which the sleepy town of Louisville finds itself at the mercy of the ravenous undead. The film is a spiritual successor to Romero's black white masterpiece 'Night of the Living Dead,' which was apparently inspired by a 'true event:' a toxic chemical leak in Pittsburgh which caused several corpses to suddenly reanimate. Of course the outbreak was ...  Read the complete review

Made in 1985, Return of the Living Dead is a classic zombie film in which a pair of warehouse employees (Freddy and Frank) start messing about with a bunch of old military chemical barrels containing a liquid known as 245 Trioxin which the military supposedly used to store corpses in as part of a top-secret experiment. Their messing around with the barrels causes one of the barrels to spring a leak, expelling a deadly green vapour that makes its way through the vintiation system and into a cadaver freezer, where corpses in bodybags hung from hooks begin to twitch.... Freddy and Frank ring their boss Burt in panic, and after dispatching a mummiffied, ...  Read the complete review

When I bought a copy of the Tom Savini remake of Night of the Living Dead, this film came with it. To say its of the same standard as the dead trilogy would be very offensive, its pile of crap but a FUNNY pile of crap at that. Basically a young man has just started his new job at a warehouse that supplys medical equipment like dogs cut in half and human skeletons. He is being shown around by the supervisor when they go down to the basement, he sees two cannisters and asks what they are. The supervisor tells him they are army cannisters that were delivered here by mistake, he young man than continues by accidentally opening one of them and it lets out a strange ...  Read the complete review

‘The Return Of The Living Dead’ is a first-rate example of the horror/comedy genre and in fact I can’t really think of a better example than this. The amount of humour in the movie is just about right and the film is extremely well written. In the film Freddy(Thom Mathews) has just started his new job at a medical supplies warehouse and is being shown the ropes by Frank (James Karen). Their boss Burt (Clu Gulager) goes home leaving the two alone. Freddy asks Frank about the weirdest thing he has seen while at the warehouse and Frank tells him about how the film 'Night Of The Living Dead' was actually based upon a true story. He goes on ...  Read the complete review