The Return of the Living Dead

August 24th 2007 Posted in Movies, Reviews, Shopping by Nate Higley

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The Return of the Living Dead 
They’re back…They’re Hungry…And they’re NOT vegetarian. 

This is one of those films that just blew me away the first time I saw it. It was my first experience seeing, what has today become commonly refered to as, a zombedy (a term that I loathe). But, at the same time it was gorey and violent and I had to have more. From the half-dog to the punk rock zombies, I just ate it up. I dug the first sequel to this now classic zomble flick, but from part three and up, the series turned into a big mess a of uninspired plots and bad, bad, bad acting. So…here are my very short reviews for Return of the Living Dead, parts 1-5:

z1.jpg The Return of the Living Dead Awesome…classic…you’ve probably heard this a million times. Send…more…paramedics…
z2.jpg The Return of the Living Dead II Decent sequel with a nice amount of gore. Not as fun as the original, but still pretty good.
z3.jpg The Return of the Living Dead III This is where it starts to slide downhill. This is like Prom Night meets Saved by the Bell. Blech.
z4.jpg The Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (part IV) The first (of two) direct to DVD sequels that came out in 2005. I tricked myself into thinking this would be great, for the simple fact that I wanted this to make up for part three. Not true. I thought it could not get any worse, until…
z5.jpg The Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (part V) Pure shit. Don’t watch this unless you truly hate yourself.

 

And don’t forget…

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MGM Home Video is releasing a special collector’s edition of  The Return of the Living Dead on September 11th and it includes:

- Cast and crew commentary
- Remembering The Dead: Cast Recollections featurette
- From The Underground: The Rise of Horror in the 80s featurette
- Zombie subtitles

Now they just need to release a special edition for Part II and while they’re at it, burn the negatives for III-V.



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Comments

  1. Erik Zempel
    August 24th, 2007 | 12:01 pm

    I LOVE the first movie in this series. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

    We just watched Part II this past week! Look for a full review soon!

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  5. Calavirea
    April 8th, 2008 | 11:07 pm

    i agree 3 did bite the big one but i didnt thing 4 and 5 where that bad at all

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