Rating: Summary: The Living Dead can be "Funny" Review: This movie is a continuation of the 1968 Night of the Living Dead many years later. It tells of what happens when the storage units that contains the "Living Dead" are accidentally broke open. It start at a medical supply house where one of the cadavers use at medical schools is revived, cut into pieces and burned in a crematorium. As the dead is burned, it starts to rain and as the smoke is showered with rain and seeps in a nearby cemetery. Now the party begins!The move has less gore than the original and is full of humor but this does not imply that the "Living Dead" are any less creepy.
Rating: Summary: Return of the Living Dead ( A Must SEE!!!) Review: I like this movie because it is completely different than the George Romero Films. It is a mixture of comedy and horror. I would recomend this movie to any true horror fan. Yes the DVD was a minor dissapointment in how they realesed it but in this case there are more good than bad. There is a very enjoyable and educational commentary by Dan Obanion, and theatrical trailers and TV spots. I give this movie a rating of two thumbs up!
Rating: Summary: MOOOORE BRAAAINS!!!!!!!! Review: In the mid 80's when "Living Dead" films were pretty much faded out,Dan O' Bannon brought zombie films out of the dark and back to the light once more with this film mixing punk music, gory FX and hilarious performances and punchlines. Great dvd with an awesome interview with the director and a treat to lots of the storyboard and zombie conceptual art. I gives this oneTWO BRAINS UP!!! WAY UP!!!
Rating: Summary: "Send more cops." Review: It's funny what growing up can do for your outlook on films. I saw Return of the Living Dead when I was 14, with my best buddy Bryan. We were both VERY disappointed with the comedic aspects of the film, and trashed it to anyone who would listen. Now I'm 31, and I've come to the conclusion that TROTLD is a classic. A minor classic, but a classic nonetheless. A semi-sequel to the legendary Night of the Living Dead (It shares the same writer), TROTLD gives us this scenario: After a chemical spill that resulted in the incident which Night of the Living Dead is based on, the Army seals up the living cadavers and ships them off for study. Being the Army, S--T happens; The cannisters are misplaced for 15 years in a Medical supply warehouse, where they are accidentally breached by two dim-bulb employees (Thom Matthews and the HILARIOUS James Karen, who provides most of the films laughs); After overcoming a re-animated frozen corpse, and being dosed with the chemical themselves, they bop over to the nearby CEMETARY (You see where this is going..?) to ask their buddy Ernie (Don Calfa) to help them cremate the dismembered bits. Soon those ashes are seeding the rainclouds, creating a downpour of zombie-makin' goodness! The script is lively and fun; We even get to see Zombies that run, talk, use radios to call for more victims.....Very original stuff! It's amazing to see what they were able to accomplish with such a small budget. The disc includes both standard and widescreen formats (WATCH WIDESCREEN!!!!), commentary by Director Dan O'Bannon and Production Designer William Stout, a Designing the Dead featurette, Theatrical trailers and TV spots, William Stout's gorgeous design art, and coolest of all, the box cover glows in the dark!! (Plus Linnea Quigley dances buck-nekkid...) Lots of fun, if you don't mind some laughs along with your brain-eating......
Rating: Summary: Good old fashioned zombie gut crunching fun! Review: Aside from "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" this may be the best zombie movie ever. It is certainly the most FUN! The story is cleverly set in a medical supply warehouse. I love the "split dogs". It is campy, goofy and terrifying all at the same time. If you like horror, gore, camp, and LINNEA QUIGGLEY dancing around NAKED ON A ROCK this is the film for you!!!
Rating: Summary: Brains, Brains!!!! Review: Mmm... Yummy. I saw this flick when I was at Junior High school, and I got very scared with it. I love movies with crude ending, ... Dan O'Bannon did a great job directing TROTLD (I've been a die hard fan of Dan since Alien... He is its creator!), and Mr. Stout's zombie designs were very gross and spooky (check out the Tar man. That zombie really rocks!). I think this is the best movie of the Return trilogy...,and also is one of the milestones in the Zombie movies genre. It has all: Fun, cruel jokes, naked chicks, cool make up, bad words, lots of people are killed, etc etc etc. Buy it, baby! U won't regret it if U R a fan of zombie flicks
Rating: Summary: Funny and Scary Review: The Dead Walk(agian) When a pair of bumbling medical supply workers spill a mysterious army chemical in a graveyard they trigger a chain of events that lead to a traditional 80s horror flick. You can tell that this a post Vietnam pre-desert storm movie(the portrayal of the military at the end of the film.
Rating: Summary: Send More Cops! Review: Yay!! It is about time this movie made it to DVD. I first saw this movie when I was a kid, and I still love it. This is a movie that equals Romero's Dead series, but in its own way. Where Romero has created classic horror movies, this is a classic comedy/horror movie. A great story, hilarious acting, rockin soundtrack, decent extra features, and an all around great movie, you will not be disappointed with this movie.
Rating: Summary: I LIKE IT, IT'S A STATEMENT!! Review: Say goodbye to those old, bootleg VHS editions! Hello DVD! It's such a delight! At a bargain price, you'll get more than what you bargained as 80's era punkers, Burt & Ernie, and the American Establishment try to kill unkillable fast moving zombies to the sounds of TSOL and The Cramps. Thanks, MGM. Now bring on "Phantasm II"....
Rating: Summary: So So Review: The first half hour of this movie is excellent. The homage to Night of the Living Dead, James Karen's hysterical perfomance, a couple of [disgusting] site gags. Then when all hell breaks loose it does downhill. The teens - - in horribly dated 80's garb -- exist merely as snack food for the zombies. None is distinguishable from the other - so who cares! Linnea Quigley has a quick turn as the teen [idol] and is the only one who brings any life to the proceedings when the kids are on screen. Not gory enough for real gore fans, the humor gets strained as the film goes on and there are very few chills. I guess if you ssaw it once when it came out, that will be as good as this one ever gets for you.
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