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Summary: The 90s B-movie masterpiece
Review: Brian Yuzna's "Return of the Living Dead 3" is a film whose legend must surely grow-- its searingly intense performances, dark humour, and unique sensibility promise that it will be remembered. In many remarkable ways, this film is a superior companion-piece to Neil Jordan's adaptation of "Interview With the Vampire"; it achieves marvels of imaginative authority denied to that big-budget effort (despite its many charms). Yuzna achieves a kind of Ridley Scott look on a small budget-- and his camera angles and movements become more uncannily effective with each viewing, as with the magnificent shot that follows the cadaver into the lab in the first horror-scene of the film. But surpassing the intensity of the zombie-attacks is the existential crisis of Julie, our revivified heroine who can only maintain mental control through a masochistic descent into compulsive body-modification. The central relationship, with its Romantic sense of unavoidable doom, makes this film a kind of (serious!) zombie "Tristan und Isolde." It goes without saying that the film delivers horrifically on the decadent possibilities of Julie's masochistic urges, and the tug between "Wuthering Heights"-style love and utter disgust is incredibly compelling. And what a climax! This is a haunting, masterful work-- an art film that (like any other great horror film) is a grand philosophical statement.
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Summary: FEAR : THE FINAL FRONTIER - DEATH : THE FINAL FRONTIER ?
Review: Being a horror enthusiastic,owing every horror flick you can imagine- from the classics to the watchable ones-I,perhaps I am the most qualified person to say something about this movie.Definitely it's one the best !The story was masterfully told and shown.Part one is excellent.Part two is good,but this part three is among the best in horror history!Regardless of what narrow-minded /envious critics ,fake horror fans or would-be highbrow watchers say,it's wonderful.We all fear death and this is what it is about!It's about young people (a boyfriend and a kooky pretty girlfriend)who discover that death is not the final frontier, but a kind of unconscious state,from which escape is impossible because when resurrected /brought back to life and to the real world these people gradually lose what they had and can't be human anymore.They lose their sanity and their human side and become what we fear most : becoming barbaric,wild,uncontrollable animals.After paying an illegal visit to a military facility ,a youth and his girlfriend (MINDY CLARKE)discover that the army has been doing experiments with the dead!That's how the story starts!Mindy does an excellent job(always!) as a zombie girl full of love,compassion and conscience,a girl who knows what she has become and what she'll have to do sooner or later - kill.She changes from a sweet,lovely slaphappy teen to a frightening, scaring and scared zombie with conscience!This is what the movie is about! The special effects are extraordinary,Brian Yuzna is a great director,the plot is finely written.This movie is not suitable for those who do not love horror movies because they'l never grasp the full significance of what these films really mean!THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD SERIES,especially PART 3,IS and WILL ALWAYS be a MASTERPIECE- Enough said !
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Summary: THE BEST PORTRAYAL OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER EVER!
Review: As a 12 year veteran of the psychiatric profession, I invariably get stares from colleagues when we're discussing all the usual movie portrayals of psych disorders (Francis, the Bell Jar, Cuckoo's Nest) and I chime in "Yeah, but have you ever seen Return of the Living Dead Part 3? " First things first, the first one of these movies is a cult fave of mine, a textbook example of how to take old source material and refreshen it rather than rehash it (The second one is just the opposite, despite having the girl who does Bart Simpson's voice in it). But 3 turned out to up the ante of its predecessors. Melinda Clarke does an uncanny job of portraying the subtext of this movie, that zombie-ism is a metaphor for Borderline Personality Disorder (the inability to have close relationships, a perverse compulsion to self mutilate because it's the only way to FEEL anything, and a tendency towards sucking others into their angst). As the zombie-fication of Julie worsens, she stabs and mutilates herself to avoid consuming the only one who cares about her, her boyfriend. Brilliant!...also kudos for pulling Kent "OneAdam12" McCord and Sarah "Superman 2" Douglas out of obscurity.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I found this movie to be the best out of the RotLD series. Mindy Clarke gives an outstanding proformance as the zombified girlfriend. This movie, however, is not for the viewers who preferred the comedy of RotLD2. A true horrer movie, this one is a definite 5 stars.
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Summary: Not up to the standards of the previous two
Review: "Return of the Living Dead 2" remains one of my favourite horror comedies. It's a rare treat when a movie manages to spoof its genre and itself while keeping the characters believable and the story from degrading into just an excuse for gags.I knew that "Return of the Living Dead 3" was a more "serious" zombie flick, and I thought it might be an interesting twist on this series--RoLD1 was semi-serious, RoLD2 was over-the-top comedy, and RoLD3 sounded like it was going to get back to basics. It's too bad the writers and directors of this film mistook "serious" for "flat and uninspired." "Return of the Living Dead 3" could have been a twisted version of "Romeo and Juliet," in addition to a creepy zombie flick, but it fails to be either of those. The film has most the hallmarks of the previous flicks, but virtually none of the flaire. There is a sense that most of the cast are just going through motions. The acting is mostly weak, the characters are mostly uninteresting, the story is painfully predicatable, and all of these add up to a movie that most viewers simply would be bored watching. (I know I was!) There are two things that are worthwhile in this film: The make-up work is quite nice in most cases, and Melinda Clarke's performance as a reluctant brain-eater is the only decent acting job in the film. Her performance is moving at times and humourous at others. Clarke gets a star all by herself. RoLD3 *could* have been a chilling and even at times touching (something rare in any sort of film featuring cannibalistic zombies!) film, but instead it's just another fifth-rate B movie for the scrap pile, despite Melinda Clarke's stand-out performance.
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Summary: A zombie classic
Review: I love this movie. All the ROTLD series is frightening and fun to watch. Brain-eatting zombies are at their finest in this horror classic-in-the-making.
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Summary: A very beautiful gore movie
Review: Better than any other living dead movie from the 90's, this masterpiece is a true jewel. Great story, good acting (Mindy Clarke is wonderful), Brian Yuzna is the last genius of gore !
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Summary: With this being the 2nd WORST film of ALL TIME,...
Review: somehow a 1 star rating seems a little too high. And considering that Troma Studios actually made movies better than this is even more disturbing. This movie has an amazingly cheesy story that defames the term "plot", the characters are flat and one-dimensional, and the zombies behave almost like normal humans. The best part of the movie is when the Army brat and his girlfriend go into the incinerator because then you know the movie is finally over. If you want to see a zombie movie, Please see Night of the Living Dead (1990). That movie at least has redeeming qualities, such as plot, depth, good acting, chemistry among the characters, and constant intensity. If you want to see an annoying waste of film, watch this. Otherwise, give this "film" a wide berth and spend your money on a good, or at least tolerable, film.
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Summary: I Know What I Am Talking About!
Review: Yet another addition to the Return of the Living Dead series! This three-quel packs a great atmosphere in with some great sub plots to create a great movie! The main story is: A teenage boy and his girlfriend witness some top-secret government testing involving bringing dead bodies back to life. From there it turns into a great thrill ride! If you are a horror movie fan, you must see, or buy this movie.
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Summary: Return of the Living Dead 3
Review: I thought the movie was really good. I have never seen it before. I really enjoy zombie flicks, so I decided to check this one out. Really gory, fake fake fake. I love fake stuff. Good actors and story. Check it out sometime.
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