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The Return of the Living Dead

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The Return of the Living Dead
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R,1hr 30min
Genres:
Comedy,Sci-Fi,Horror
Released:
January 1, 1985
Director:
Dan O'Bannon
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa  ...more
Synopsis: Middle-aged family man Frank (Jim Karen) trains teenaged Freddy (Thom Matthews) for his new job at a medical supply warehouse. In an effort to impress and frighten his young charge, practical joker Frank reveals that the warehouse basement contains a cannister full of a mysterious chemical capable of bringing the dead back to life. It seems that the cannister fell off the back of an army truck during an accidental outbreak of zombiedom. Frank and Freddy unwittingly inhale the chemical and release ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, whose central premise it loosely reworks, this seemingly standard-issue gore-fest offers more than meets the eye. It's not a genre-defining masterpiece like the source of its inspiration, but it is a relatively clever popcorn flick with more gruesome imagery and self-aware humor than most such films that glutted the mid-'80s marketplace. The punk rock ... Full Review
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