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The Return of the Living Dead
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
1985 · Directed by Dan O'Bannon · 91 min · Comedy · Horror · Science Fiction · 35 frames
Tagline
They're back from the grave and ready to party!
Crew
- Screenplay: Dan O'Bannon
- Cinematography: Jules Brenner
- Edited by: Robert Gordon
- Music: Matt Clifford
- Production design: William Stout
- Produced by: Tom Fox
Cast
- Clu Gulager as Burt
- James Karen as Frank
- Don Calfa as Ernie
- Thom Mathews as Freddy
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Spider
- Brian Peck as Scuz
- John Philbin as Chuck
- Linnea Quigley as Trash
- Beverly Randolph as Tina
- Jewel Shepard as Casey
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Hemdale Film Corporation, Fox Films Ltd., Cinema 84
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Box office: $14,241,310
- Themes: cemetery, halloween, dark comedy, crematorium, punk rock, undead, zombie, paramedic, attic, warehouse
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