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Summary: Great flick, great DVD, lousy packaging
Review: This is great spoof of the zombie genre, packed with gore and clever lines. Acting, directing, and writing are all above average. The DVD features a healthy assortment of extras, including a commentary, and featurette. Too bad the packing [is bad]. The actual cover and back are nice, but the lack of any sort of insert (not even a promotional one), means that the tabs usually used to hold the inserts are uncovered, meaning pushing down too hard on the cover will cause it too rip. Most MGM DVDs are like this, unless specified in the special features. Buyer beware. Other than that, this is a fine DVD.
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Summary: Fast-paced, Gruesome, and funny
Review: Dan O' Bannon's Return of the Living Dead gets its story from the Night of the Living Dead. And I'm not just talking similar stories. In Return of the Living Dead the entire story is this: George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' really happened, although not exactly as told in the movie, and the Army covered it up. The cause of the mutations was a certain type of poison gas, that the army has hidden in a warehouse.
Naturally, in the beginning of the 'Return of the Living Dead' the gas is found and let out into the night sky where it causes the dead to come up from their graves and loook for brains. From there on it is basically the exact same movie as 'Night of the Living Deda' with better creature effects, and a faster pace.
It's funny at points, it's gruesome; it's dumb fun.
I recommend it.
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Summary: The only high quality horror comedy I've seen. Others?
Review: Return of the Living Dead is a great movie of the 80's because is is so naughty. The concept of the US army nuking the city of Louisville, Kentucky because it is filled with zombies is just so in tune with the heavy handed star wars project. The cold war tension which contributed to punk angst is an integral part of this movie because so much of the talk about a nuclear holocaust was about the chances of survival in a nuclear winter. Unlike The Day After, where everyone is doomed, this movie is an escapist fantasy of pollution and the hopefully beneficial effects of an already toxic world. Its about the punk kids who go to visit their friend at the lab supply centre, and end up getting picked off by brain eating zombies. I want your brains!!! That is the joke that wouldn't work anywhere but in Return of the Living Dead, where the far fetched and the gross are laughable.
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Summary: IT'S PARTY TIME!!!
Review: This is by far the best zombie film ever made!It has everything you want to see in a zombie film!It's scary,it's funny,and it's bloody.When a teen and his idiot boss accidentally let toxic gas out, the test bodies in the factory come alive!Meanwhile a group of trouble making teens are on their way to see Freddy(the teen).The group dresses weird and has strange clothes.Suicide is the leader,his girlfriend Trash enjoys dancing nude,Scud is a punk rocker,Caisie has big hair,Charlie is a nerd,Spider is the layed back black dude, and Tina is the sweat normal one of the group. She's also Freddy's girl friend.Freddy and his boss become infected with the gas and become zombies.Pretty soon the gas gets out and goes into a nearby cemetary.The dead begin to rise and have a craving for brains!They soon start to feed on the teens!The best zombie is Tar-man! The zombie in the tank. The best scene is when the teens run inyo the cemetary just as the corpses begin to rise! Trash makes a great zombie! Another great scene is when Trash is resurrected and comes out of the ground. Great filming!
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Summary: It's party time...
Review: THE ultimate zombie film. I love Romero's trilogy to death (no pun intended), but this is simply the best zombie film ever made. It has wonderful 80's cheesiness, it has zombies craving human brains, it has chills, thrills, and even a dose or two of humor, it has a cast I have yet to see topped, it has an AMAZING punk soundtrack, beautiful cinematography, and most of all, it has Linnea Quigley doing a striptease in a graveyard on a tombstone.
If you're one of those types that takes horror too seriously, this probably isn't for you. If you're one of those annoying "Scream" fans that has no respect for the 80's and thought that Halloween: H20 was the TRUE sequel to Halloween...Well, I'm afraid this probably isn't for you either. However, if you can enjoy horror from ANY decade as long as the movie itself is solid, you might just have a winner on your hands. Clu Gulager RULES.
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Summary: A ZOMBIE CLASSIC
Review: I absolutely LOVE 'The Return Of The Living Dead'. Now this is a classic, one of the best zombie films right along with George Romero's Night,Dawn, and Day of the Dead Trilogy films. From start to finish does a film really get any better than this classic does. Not only is it dark with lots of scares but it's funny. It delivers in all aspects. I adore the settings and locations of where it takes place- the cemetary. I love the old D.C Comics style of the zombies. All the dialogue in the film is hilerious, the actors are superb in their roles. Well done to Dan O'Bannon for this classic. The extras on the DVD are really good, if your a die-hard fan you should be happy with the commentary and the designing the dead featurette.
By Justine Ryan
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Summary: An Entertaining Zombie Cult Classic...
Review: Up until very recently, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD was one of the most sought after horror films in any incantation... Original VHS tapes went for upwards of 40 dollars on internet auctions, online petitions for a special edition had signatures going up to the thousands, and hundreds on internet message boards lamented the fact that one of their favorite films had yet to see the light of day on DVD. Thankfully, MGM listened and now we have a great widescreen print of this fantastic zombie romp... You gotta love the cult following! The DVD format has become an important resource in the cult film scene, making films that were previously almost impossible to find (mostly obscure Italian gore flicks) now just hop, skip, and a jump away at your local video haunt (or, in this case, online store). I've always been a huge fan of horror comedies... Re-Animator is my favorite film of all time, and I can't get enough of schlocky bloodbaths like Dead Alive and Basket Case. However, this one had always eluded me until I finally got my hands on it via my friend's [poor quality]VHS tape. However, those days are over since now I own my very own copy, thanks to MGM. I'll never understand why this film isn't included in their great "Midnite Movies" series... It's got all the ingredients... Graphic violence, campy humor, a zany off-the-wall story, and an all-around fun mood. While you would definitely find this film in the horror section of your local rental place, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD functions much more effectively (as do most of these films) as a crazed black comedy. I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't gasping for breath on many occasions... That's the lasting appeal for these types of movies, and hence the large cult following that this film has gathered over the years. The film is essentially a dark parody of Romero's Dead Trilogy, even referencing them at the beginning. The plot zips along at a frantic pace and, as the number of victims keep piling up, so do the walking cadavers. In a stroke of genius, they even have witty one liners and hilarious dialogue ("Send more cops"). However, most of the humor isn't really in these scenes but in the frantic antics of the few survivors that are scurrying around. Two sequels would follow this one, none of them even coming close to matching the brilliance that you see here. Although it's not the greatest horror comedy ever made, it's definitely in the top ten and is a definite keeper for the one who likes their humor with a little "bite" (yeah, I know... I hate puns too). MGM deserves much praise for finally bringing this seminal zombie film to DVD!
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Summary: Do ya wanna party?
Review: From punk rockers in a cemetary, to full frontal nudity, to brain cravin zombies, this film has it all! While classified as a horror movie, it's mostly a spoof of Romero's "Living Dead" series, like how the living dead don't "die" when whapped in the head. ("The movie lied!?!", exclaims one of the characters), and when they run,not shamble.
Yeah it has an 80's look and atmosphere, but who cares if they have tape decks instead of CD players, or the computer has a deathray green screen(like so many American elementary schools of the Reagan 80's)? The movie's still fun!
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Summary: Brains, Zombies, Blood, wut more could you want?
Review: I think that this is a great movie. First of all let me just say the music in it is GREAT! Awsome plot. Good Special FX. The acting aint to shabby either. Out of all three Return OF The Living Dead movies, i feel this one is the best! It is kinda like a sequal to the one made in the 60s, but its the first one in this series. I recomend this movie alote. They show on the SCI-FI channel about 6 times a year ( thats how many imes I have seen it this past year). But it's deffintly a great movie to on on DVD!
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Summary: Fun Campy Horror
Review: This film is very enjoyable for anyone that enjoys horror movies, or just anyone who enjoys that sort of cheesy movie that could have only come from the eighties. However, this movie is a cut above most horror movies that were being released during the eighties. There's a lot of really juicy, creepy looking zombies, and a good amount of campy humor and gore. This a really enjoyable horror movie, although, it wouldn't win any prizes for plot (it leaves it up to another movie to explain), but I really like it, and it's a good DVD.
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