![]() ![]() Of course, Freddy and Frank are headed for bad news themselves, as the virus slowly kills them and turns them into the same things they’re running from. Throw in Freddy’s girlfriend Tina, the only good girl amongst her hardcore partying punk friends (?), and you’ve got a recipe for some tasty Zombie dinner. Of course, Freddy fucks things up by “accidentally” releasing the seal on the thing, causing toxic gas to shoot up into the atmosphere and rain down on the cemetery conveniently located next to Uneeda.Ī fantastic sequence involving re-animated cut-in-half dogs, pinned-down butterflies and corpses on meat hooks follows, cementing the bent humor of this film and illustrating exactly WHY I love it so much. Opening at Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse, foreman Frank tries to impress new teenage employee Freddy by showing him a long-abandoned US Army container holding one of the Zombies from the original film. Like any good horror-obsessed-alternative teenager in the 80s, I saw this (it has The Cramps and The Damned on the soundtrack, for chrissakes!) before the original Romero Night of the Living Dead-a fine ground-breaking film in its own right, but without the glamour and glitz of this blood-soaked, special F/X-laden, naked punk-rock dancing girl extravaganza. If any movie cemented my love for Zombie apocalypses, it has to be 1985’s The Return of the Living Dead. My vote is six.31 Horror Movies I Own #11: The Return of the Living Dead There are the usual stupid attitudes from the characters but it is highly entertaining. ![]() This sequel is a comedy with action, with good special effects and creepy zombies. "Return of the Living Dead: Part II" is a funny zombie cult movie. Ed, Joey and Brenda run to Jesse's house and team up with Lucy and Tom trying to survive to the brain eaters. Soon the Trioxin awakes the dead in the cemetery and the town is crowded with hordes of zombies. Then the cable guy Tom Essex (Dana Ashbrook) arrives to fix the television and he recognizes Lucy from the high- school. His sister Lucy Wilson (Marsha Dietlein) tells him to do the homework. Ed and Joey go to the mausoleum and Jesse is released and runs home. Meanwhile the grave robber Ed (James Karen) hires Joey (Thom Mathews) to help him to pillage the graves and they go to the cemetery in a van with Joey's girlfriend Brenda (Suzanne Snyder). Then the bullies lock Jesse in a mausoleum and they decide to open the barrel, releasing the Trioxin and breathing the toxic gas. The two bullies find Jesse and they see the barrel. In the morning, the boy Jesse Wilson (Michael Kenworthy) is bullied by the older Billy (Thor Van Lingen) and Johnny (Jason Hogan) and he hides himself under a bridge nearby the cemetery. While transporting drums of the dangerous Trioxin gas, one of them falls from the army truck into a river. ![]()
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