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Return of the Living Dead

Dan O'Bannon
Director

Zombies get unleashed at the Uneeda medical supply company.

Hugely entertaining tongue-in-rotting-cheek zombie film with James Karen and Don Calfa in terrific roles and then there's Linnea Quigley doing the zombie thing stark-bollock-naked.

-The Sloth

A near perfect horror comedy, buoyed by great performances (especially Karen), and marred only by pointless recycling of footage at the climax. The comedy is a bit blunted when you consider the ending is likely exactly how the government would react to a situation like this. Great soundtrack, too!

And where exactly do they get all those skeletons with the perfect teeth?

-Dave W.

Followed by a quartet of sequels, each exponentially worse than its predecessor: Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1987), Return Of The Living Dead III (1993), Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005), and Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005).

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Return of the Living Dead
16th August 1985
Cinema



91 mins
1.85:1

Return Of The Living Dead (Special Edition)
27th August 2002
DVD



91 mins
1.85:1

Return of the Living Dead
18th October 2022
4K



91 mins
1.85:1


18th October 2022
Blu-Ray





Clu Gulager
Burt
James Karen
Frank
Don Calfa
Ernie
Thom Mathews
Freddy
Beverly Randolph
Tina
John Philbin
Chuck
Jewel Shepard
Casey
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Spider
Brian Peck
Scuz
Linnea Quigley
Trash
Mark Venturini
Suicide
Jonathan Terry
Colonel Glover
Cathleen Cordell
Colonel's Wife
Drew Deighan
Paramedic #1
James Dalesandro
Paramedic #2
John Durbin
Radio Corpse #1
David Bond
Radio Corpse #2
Robert Libman
Tac Squad Captain
John Stuart West
Riot Cop #1
Michael Crabtree
Riot Cop #2
Ed Krieger
Riot Cop #3
Robert Craighead
Cop #1
Paul Cloud
Cop #2
Derrick Brice
Gunnery Sergeant Jefferson
Leigh Drake
Dispatcher
Terrence M. Houlihan
Yellow Cadaver
Allan Trautman
Tarman
Robert J. Bennett
Headless Tarman
(as Robert Bennett)
Jerome "Daniels" Coleman
Legless Corpse
Cherry Davis
Voice: ½ Lady Corpse
Rick Askew
Officer
Terrence Beasor
Narrator
Leslee Bremmer
Undetermined Role
Dan O'Bannon
Helicopter Loudspeaker Officer
Voice: Bum Outside Warehouse
William Stout
Wino on Street