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The Return Of The Living Dead [1984]
VHS ~ Clu Gulager

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Product details

Actors: Clu Gulager, James Karen
Directors: Dan O'Bannon
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Language English
Classification:
Studio: Tartan Video
VHS Release Date: 25 April 1994
Run Time: 86 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(26 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004CJV1
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,012 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme.

There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up.

The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

Synopsis
Two medical supply company workers unwittingly release several zombies from cylinders, where they've been trapped for many years. The nasty brain-eating creatures are starving hungry... Also available as part of a double pack. See 'Night Of The Living Dead / The Return Of The Living Dead'.