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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: Now this is what horror is all about. An enjoyable film with alot of scares, and alot of laughs. It's only really scary, if you watch it by yourself, wich is what I recommend doing. You laugh, you'll jump, a cold chill will run down your spine. Rent it first, then buy it!!!
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Summary: Brains!....Brains!.....
Review: A ghoulish good time in the form of gory zombie humor! Another fine achievement in the plethora of zombie flicks. I saw this filom years ago, and it is still one of my favorites. If you are a serious horror fan this one needs to be in your collection, or the collection simply isn't complete. The sequel, Return of the Living Dead II is also well worth checking out if you can find it. The third installment, well...they could have done a lot better. Four Stars!
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Summary: Great movie,little bit comedy more horror
Review: I just got this DVD, since I've seen ROTLD 2 and 3, I decided to look at the original. I tryed to rent it but no video store has it, so I went on and bought the movie, and the movie is fantastic. If you love a good zombie movie and nudity, well this is the movie for for you. This is a great horror movie, I didn't really think it had comedy in it, well it didn't seem like it. These are the kind of zombies that can't be killed, the only way to kill them is to burn them, plus these ones can run after you. Great horror movie I give it to thumbs up, WAY UP!!!!!!!.
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Summary: MGM does a wonderful job on this classic
Review: This DVD has it all from director commentary, to a featurette, conceptual art, tv spots, and theatrical trailers. All of them are very interesting and informitive to the films fans. The only thing that I thought was missing was deleated scenes, but maybe they originally used all of the footage. It's really cool to veiw the artwork and see how well it relates to the film. The artwork on the backside if the cover was bad though. It looks like one of those cheesy eurotrash zombie films, and this film is a lot more than that!!! I am so happy this film has been ressurected. Brains, Brains, Brains!!!
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Summary: DO THE DEAD,THE SURFIN' DEAD!
Review: Ah,I've always loved this movie!I caught it the first time at a midnite showing when it first came out.I ended up seeing it a few more times,then more when it came out on video.Sadly,the video was out of print for many years,while it's insipid sequels were readilly available.NOW it's on dvd!It looks and sounds great!The extras are good.The commentary track is enternaining as well.Fans will need this for their collections.
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Summary: THIS FILM ON DVD WAS WELL WORTH THE WAIT
Review: Well, Well, Well, here's a film that offers great brain food ... RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. This film was a surprise hit in August 1985 when this film was released theatrically. I think both cops and peramedics enjoyed this film as well.This film stars James Karen, Clu Galuger (Nightmare 2), Thom Matthews (Jason Lives : Friday the 13th Part6), scream goddess Linnea Quigley (who plays Trash in this movie), Miguel Nunez and Marc Venturini (whom both appeared in Friday the 13th Part5 - The New Beginning) and a bunch of other actors we all never heard of. This film pays homage to Night of the Living Dead - the George A. Romero 1960 classic. It also blends in horror along in with comedy (one of the first horror films to do it) with satisfying results. My favourite part of this film is when Trash (Linnea Quigley) visits the Resurrection Cemetary with her friends and tells them her fantasy of dying - to be attacked by older men and eaten alive - and Trash just happens to get her wish. This film deals with a medical worker (James Karen) and his assistant (Thom Matthews) encounter cannisters of dead cadavers, that splits open that awakes the dead and they turn to a crematorist for help - with disasterous results. The army eventually gets involved and the dead are ready to party. This film has a good sound mix for a film of the 80's era. A good 80's soundtrack that is now hard to find. A noted song in this film Tonight (We'll Make Love Till We Die) by SSQ was better known as Stacey Q who would later sign on with Atlantic Records the year later with the #2 hit "Two of Hearts". Unfortunately for Stacey Q, she was a one hit wonder, made two albums and was dropped by Atlantic Records in 1990. I have nothing but great things to say about this film and this DVD. MGM did a great job with the transfer of this film, both piture and sound quality wise. This film is presented in tis standard version and for the first time in widescreen (1.85:1) version. Extras include a soundtrack commentary, a "Featurette" with the writer and director Dan O'Bannon, tv spots and two theatre trailers. This film is a must have for fans of the genre and of this film. Highly reccomended for cops and peramedics !!!! This film and DVD is well worth the wait so do get your copy today !!!!
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Summary: movie is AWESOME, dvd [stinks]
Review: lets see where to begin, First off let me state that this movie is one of the greatest zombie movies ever made. But the DVD definatly could have been much better.They didnt even get the description on the back of the box right. Its a medical supply not an army surplus. Not to mention that if something isnt broken why would you try and fix it. By this statement I mean that the movie was great the way that it was, why would you need to go back and change and leave things out. example: The part when the gang is riding around in the car, going to the cemetary. They play a song there, BUT its not the original song, its supposed to be The Damned, and its not. They took that song out and put another one in its place. Then they turned it up so loud that you can barely hear what the people are saying. The laugh at the beginning of the song is the same, however the rest is not. Also, after tina goes and find freddie and the rest of the group meets up at the warehouse in the original they are playing the tall boys song over them talking and you cant really hear all their dialouge, in the dvd version first off the song isnt even in there, (they took music and tried to make it sound like the song minus the lyrics, but it didnt fool anyone) also you can hear everything that they say to each other in the warehouse, and the dialouge at that part isnt exactly the best ever. Then theres the part with the zombie telling the to "send more cops" the dvd does a very poor job of overdubbing the voice, why did it need to be fix it was perfect before. And last, one of the best music scenes in the movie, the part when burt goes to the creamatorium, there is a really awesome song playing then that fits the scene perfectly. In the DVD, it was decided to take out the song, and now there is silence, and it doesnt compliment the scene very much. As i said before the movie, (plot, characters, music) is very cool. And the DVD could have been much much better. I would take the 18 year old movie over the poorly made DVD anyday. The best thing about this being on DVD is that the picture is much better, but i would rather have the blurry video tape picture and have all the music and original dialouge, then have something that was remade.
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Summary: A modern-day horror/comedy classic
Review: Surprisingly, this film holds up well over time. The punk trappings don't date it (much) and the winning combination of horror and humor still has punch. A heck of a lot of fun. This DVD is a must-own if you're a Dan O'Bannon ("Dark Star") fan...which I most certainly am.
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Summary: Great movie! As for the extras...
Review: There are few movies I've looked forward to seeing on DVD more than "Return Of The Living Dead." Read other reviews for raves about the movie (and it deserves them all!) but here I'm writing about the "extras." I couldn't wait for the features on the DVD: running commentary! A featurette! Production design artwork! The artwork IS beautiful. William Stout's design obviously had a large influence on the look of the movie. I don't usually find the artwork features on DVDs to be very interesting, but in this case they picked such choice pieces that I was captivated. The featurette is revealing: Stout and O'Bannon talk separately about their experiences making the film, and O'Bannon hints that he was never very happy with it. It would have been nice to get some of the original cast involved, but they were sadly absent. Then, the commentary. I'm sad to say that the commentary has managed to dull my enthusiasm for the film, something I didn't think was possible. Dan O'Bannon spends the entire time complaining about the budget, the time constraints, and his own directorial style (though he does seem quite happy about his environmental effects and -- justifiably -- with the notorious "Tar Man.") William Stout is much more positive and informative -- he brings up some anecdotes that are illuminating, and brings attention to pieces of scenery that I would never have noticed (that painting of the crying child! The glued-on microphone popping off during the last scene!). But most of the time, just as Stout is launching into something fascinating, O'Bannon instantly cuts him off with a line I grew all too familiar with: "Today, obviously, this could have done better. But what can you do. We had no money. Oh, but that fog effect looks good." I also found myself wondering: with all of the extra footage floating around on the "rough edit" tapes, and pieces of the movie altered and shot for TV broadcast, why was this extra material not included on the DVD? Oh well, it still gets 4 stars for the beautiful transfer (you can zoom in, and zoom in, and zoom in...) and for the widescreen presentation, and simply because this film is a gem that has finally gotten it's due. But, oh jeez, stay away from the commentary...it's absolutely depressing.
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Summary: I am not amused
Review: Before we start. I want to affirm that I love this film. Great script, great performances, great soundtrack, great directing.
Also, regardless of the negative feedback I give this DVD, we are unfortunately obligated to buy it, if we ever want to see a special edition DVD.
Ok, here goes. Yeah it looks great. But it just felt wrong. I couldn't place the reason. I thought maybe it was a visual matter. But I quickly realized that what was bugging me was the soundtrack. It was inexplicably, utterly mangled.
Will someone tell me why? Why were the vocals for whole songs removed? I am sorely disappointed and angered by this. I am outraged by the George Lucas style of re-working your film for DVD, and abandoning the original theatrical cut. If you feel the need to improve your film, fine, provide an alternate cut, or additional scenes, or whatever, that's great. Give me the option on the menu to see the "improved version, or the regular cut. But don't alter a classic, and not even mention it and try to pass it off as the original.
There are so many examples of this butchering, that I can't name them all. I only watched it once last night, and am at work now, but a few definitely come to mind.
#1 The scene where Trash and Suicide and the gang are speeding towards the cemetery used to have the Damned song Dead Beat Dance as the background music. Well, not anymore! You get the inital maniacal laugh, and then nothing, a completely different song. Why?!
#2 The scene where the zombie says: "send more cops", with a thick new york accent. A classic scene right? We all loved it right? Well did you notice that they changed the voice? Did you notice that is was awful in comparison, and not nearly as funny? Was there a good reason for this sacrilege? Has Dan O'Bannon lost his mind, or was this the studios fault? In the end credits, where the best-of scenes replay a second time, we hear the "send more cops" line in all its original glory. So I know I am not imagining this.
#3 What's his name, the Pathmark guy (no slight intended, his performance was excellent), takes his own life by placing himself in the crematorium. In the original version of this scene is accompanied by the song Burn the Flames, which sports a haunting guitar solo at the exact moment the door shuts and we hear the man's tortured screams. It is actually one of my favorite scenes in the film. The haunting music enhances the sadness of the moment.
But not anymore. Now the music is faded out in a particularly unartistic way, and the scene plays silent. Sorry but this is a disgrace. I waited years for this film to be re-released and I feel betrayed. The soundtrack was perfect the way it was. In a different film it would not be as a big of a deal. But when you are the ONLY zombie/comedy/horror film with a punky soundtrack, and a damned good one, and everyone loves you for it, you don't go around meddling and altering, deleting and rewriting, compiling and defiling.
It go to the point where I held my breath with every song change, worried sick that they would ommit lyrics or do away with the track altogether. Waves of relief washed over me when I reached the scene where the zombies are attacking the funeral home (and our heroes are furiously nailing doors and windows shut)and I discovered that the Cramps song "Surfin Dead" was left intact. Thank god, or the devil, for that one.
Could I be wrong? Did I miss some sort of soundtrack feature, where mistakenly clicked something off or on? Or is the sad fact that this movie has been permanently altered...?
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