The Return of the Living Dead (DVD) Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Freddy (Thom Matthews) is just started his job at UNEEDA medical supplies. His boss, Frank (James Karen)shows him around all the weird stuff they have, including the dead body in the freezer. Freddy then asks Frank what the weirdest thing he ever saw was, big mistake. Frank explains to him that in 1969 the military developed a chemical, however it ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of the best horror movies of all time. It has everything you could ever want in a horror movie - gore, some nasty monsters, tension, humour and a surprise ending. The film takes place in what we would probably know as an industrial estate. The three major structures are a medical supplies warehouse, a crematorium and a ...  Read the complete review

This is definitely one of the best horror flicks of the 1980s, and one of the greatest zombie films of all time. Even for non-genre fans, this horror comedy has a great deal to offer, with thrills, spills and a great script to boot. The plot for this film builds from the interesting premise that the events in Romero's 'Night of ...  Read the complete review

When I looked up this movie on the Sky Digital TV Guide it said horror/comedy. When I sat down to watch this movie that opinion was quickly proved wrong. A kid called Freddy has started a new job in a factory and the guy in charge has something interesting to show him. He takes him down to the basement and reveals that there is a ...  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 ...  Read the complete review