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Return of the Living Dead
Middle-aged family man Frank trains teenaged Freddy for his new job at a medical supply warehouse. And when the duo accidentally releases a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
29 July 1960
1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
10 January 1961, Illinois, USA
3 January 1958, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1957
25 May 1955, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 May 1958, Davenport, Iowa, USA
28 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 August 1964, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1914, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1928, Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA
10 August 1964
27 April 1960, California, USA
2 February 1935, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3 December 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 13, 2007
Equal parts horror and comedy, Return of the Living Dead finds success on both fronts.
September 27, 2007
A tongue-in-cheek, splatter-laden homage to George A. Romero's zombie pictures.
September 19, 2010
Ed O'Bannon and John Russo may have intended The Return of the Living Dead as a comedy, but it's just too damn gory, too scary and too good to be dismissed as a zom com.
October 05, 2007
Effectively announces itself as a horror movie deliberately pitted against customary cinematic values.
October 14, 2012
For pure eighties, punk rock, walking dead, brain eating mayhem, this is the film to watch.
July 12, 2008
An amusing, punk variation on the familiar zombie theme.
February 28, 2017
[Return of the Living Dead] stood the test of time because it blended real scares and a few honest-to-goodness, heart-wrenching moments in with its humor.
June 08, 2012
this overnight zombie apocalypse is a tongue-in-cheek brainload of hard-rocking fun.
March 30, 2011
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January 18, 2014
an icon of the 80s
July 18, 2016
Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead is a classic of the zombie genre that delivers a good laugh with its silly, over-the-top nature, while also giving you several thrills along the way.
