Return Of The Living Dead...

[Lowrie Productions]

what did you guys think of this film?

to me this is one of THE worst films i've ever seen.

i almost threw the dvd against the wall and i would have if it was mine

the bit where the 'zombie' runs after somebody shouting "brains"...oh my god

Dan

[Creeping Death]

Return of the Living Dead is bullshit.
Tarman sucks.
Braiiiiins sucks.
The characters suck.

The only cool thing is the name of the virus: trixoin.

[Lowrie Productions]

i'm glad someone else agree's with me

Dan

[DarthJoe8]

Cough, cough I agree with CD on this one, cough....damn itchy throat...:lol: I'm not a fan of the RotLD series at all. The fact that you can't kill them pisses me off and the idea that a 50 yr old corpse can dig its way out of grave drives me nuts...:x Other than that they pretty much suck...:lol:

:drinking:

[Creeping Death]

The fact that you can't kill them pisses me off and the idea that a 50 yr old corpse can dig its way out of grave drives me nuts...:x Other than that they pretty much suck...:lol:

:drinking:

Even if the Trioxin virus doesn't reach them. :roll:
I think that Dan 'Obannon and John Russo screwed this one up....................Or all 5 of them. :lol:

[zombie surfer]

Man, you guys suck.:lol: only kidding but The Return of the Living Dead is one of the best zombie films ever, i know there are a lot of people here agree with me. Come on people, stick up for this film.:)

[UNDEAD FRED]

I agree with ZS, its one of the best zombie movies out there. Its one of my favorites. Who doesnt like a naked chick (trash) with orange hair dancing on top of a raised tomb. Great soundtrack to. Now ROTLD 2,4,5 were bad.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Cough, cough I agree with CD on this one, cough....damn itchy throat...:lol: I'm not a fan of the RotLD series at all. The fact that you can't kill them pisses me off and the idea that a 50 yr old corpse can dig its way out of grave drives me nuts...:x Other than that they pretty much suck...:lol:

:drinking:

Is there a zombie movie that you actually like There Darthjoe:lol:

[DarthJoe8]

Is there a zombie movie that you actually like There Darthjoe:lol:

:lol: A few, a few...:think:


Actually, I'm watching this now and it's not terrible but I stand by my earlier statements. If you can't kill them and you have ancient corpses rising, well I think that's pretty stupid...:roll:

[zmbvan]

Oh man I love Return of the Living Dead series up to the thrid one. The last two are complete shit because they just stole the franchises name and changed the whole story around. I can't believe a zombie fan wouldn't like these movies though. It is a parody of the genre and it is not to be taken seriously.

[BarnabusBlackoak]

Return Of The Living Dead? never hear of it ...:loon:

[detpat]

i love the first two as well, the third on up are shit. the first two are brilliant parody of the genre!

[BarnabusBlackoak]

Man, you guys suck.:lol: only kidding but The Return of the Living Dead is one of the best zombie films ever, i know there are a lot of people here agree with me. Come on people, stick up for this film.:)

THe first 2 were great fun. the last 3, yuck.

RotLD is one of the best zombie films of all time.

[zombie surfer]

I must be the biggest fan cause i love em all.:lol:

The 1st was class
The 2nd wasn't as good but still had cool bits like the power station part.:lol:
The 3rd was quite different i thought but actually one of my faves.:clap:

I agree that the 4th & 5th were scraping the barrel but still had some good :poo: in them such as the drumstick in the eye & the girl giving the blow job from hell.:lol::evil:

All in all love or hate it is still one of the biggest franchise in horror.:drinking:

[Victor Clark]

I'm acually very neutral on the ROTLD films. I love the humor and silliness of the films, but I hate the acting and the impace those movies made on non-zombie fans. Ever since that movie came out, every person in existance that isn't a big zombie fan thinks that zombies eat brains! ZOMBIES DON'T EAT BRAINS, THEY EAT FLESH! Overall, I thought the first 3 ROTLD movies were watchable, and that the 2nd one was the best of the 3 (although I absolutley hated the 2 cemetary workers and the girlfriend; they never stopped whining!).

[dead and loving it]

I didn't like ROTLD when it first came out, because it opened close to the same time as Day Of The Dead. I was a Romero fan even back then and felt they were stealing from the Romero films. When I finally did watch it I really liked it. I loved how it was played for laughs. The sequels went downhill in a hurry, however.

[RIP]

I liked ROTLD 2 the best of the whole series. I have parts 1 through 4 on dvd but the 5th one is utter garbage.

[zombie surfer]

the 5th one is utter garbage.

Yeah but as i said, you gotta love the blow job from hell.:lol::evil:

[RIP]

Yeah but as i said, you gotta love the blow job from hell.:lol::evil:

I don't recall that scene......are you sure you weren't watching a porn flick lol?:lol:

[zombie surfer]

I don't recall that scene......are you sure you weren't watching a porn flick lol?:lol:

:lol: Maybe, No it was the blonde girl & her boyfriend in the car but unknown to him she had become a zombie. Still kinda purdy though.:evil:

[RIP]

I didn't like part 3 that much and was greatly disappointed in it when I saw it in the theater but this is another film that has grown on me. Part 4 was pretty shitty but it was wayyy better than part 5.

I wonder why they used the same 2 lead actors from part 1 in part2?:loon:

[zombie surfer]

Don't you think the first part of the 3rd with the bike crash is virtually the same as Cronenberg's Rabid?

[RIP]

Don't you think the first part of the 3rd with the bike crash is virtually the same as Cronenberg's Rabid?

It's been ages since I saw Rabid so I really don't recall much from that flick.

[zombie surfer]

Check it out sometime cause i saw Rabid a while after Return 3 & thought i had seen it before until it clicked. Rip off?:)

[Flesh Jester]

:x I cant believe there is even a debate about whether or not ROTLD was good or not. You people should be ashamed. Tar man was the first memorable zombie ever for me. Screaming out "BRAINS!" and the ever more hilarious "More Brains!" Come on people UNKILLABLE Zombies, what more could a true horror/zombie fan want? Something realistic? PFT! I live in the real world, it bores me.

[RIP]

:x I cant believe there is even a debate about whether or not ROTLD was good or not. You people should be ashamed. Tar man was the first memorable zombie ever for me. Screaming out "BRAINS!" and the ever more hilarious "More Brains!" Come on people UNKILLABLE Zombies, what more could a true horror/zombie fan want? Something realistic? PFT! I live in the real world, it bores me.

I never said that I hated it. I liked parts 1 thru 3. Like I said before I think that part 2 was the best of the series though.:drinking:

[zombie surfer]

:x I cant believe there is even a debate about whether or not ROTLD was good or not. You people should be ashamed. Tar man was the first memorable zombie ever for me. Screaming out "BRAINS!" and the ever more hilarious "More Brains!" Come on people UNKILLABLE Zombies, what more could a true horror/zombie fan want? Something realistic? PFT! I live in the real world, it bores me.

Couldn't agree more. You tell em Flesh Jester.:)

[RIP]

Part 2 had some funny stuff in it like the stupid doctor in it when he gets into the car and recognizes one of his old patients whose now a zombie lol and then a severed hand grabs his nuts lol.:lol:

[Flesh Jester]

Part 2 had some funny stuff in it like the stupid doctor in it when he gets into the car and recognizes one of his old patients whose now a zombie lol and then a severed hand grabs his nuts lol.:lol:

Best part for me was in the hospital, when one of the zombies was down stairs eating a brain from a jar, and trying to talk that one kid into coming downstairs. :drool:

Actually, Id have to say I haven't seen ROTLD2 for like 6 years now, I'm going to watch it tonight! :)

[Creeping Death]

:x I cant believe there is even a debate about whether or not ROTLD was good or not. You people should be ashamed. Tar man was the first memorable zombie ever for me. Screaming out "BRAINS!" and the ever more hilarious "More Brains!" Come on people UNKILLABLE Zombies, what more could a true horror/zombie fan want? Something realistic? PFT! I live in the real world, it bores me.

Shame on you! :naughty:
Tarman is singlehandedly the worst zombie of all time.
"More Braiiiins!" is retarded :?

Tsk, Tsk. :roll:

[Flesh Jester]

Shame on you! :naughty:
Tarman is singlehandedly the worst zombie of all time.
"More Braiiiins!" is retarded :?

Tsk, Tsk. :roll:

Come on now! ROTLD is meant to be a comedy. Its funny :lol:

[UNDEAD FRED]

Tarman was great.

[DarthJoe8]

Come on now! ROTLD is meant to be a comedy. Its funny :lol:

FJ has a point..:think:...I just watched RotLD and there is no way that any of this movie can be taken seriously.

That said, even though I think that the entire premise of talking, running, thinking brain eating zombies is retarded, it's still kinda funny...:lol:

:drinking:

[retro zombie killer]

ROTLD is meant to be fun and that's it, folks. I think it succeeds. A friend of mine who has zero interest in Zombies saw this as a teenager and remembers it fondly. So the movie didn't do too badly for itself.It's just fun and funny!

[Creeping Death]

Come on now! ROTLD is meant to be a comedy. Its funny :lol:

I know it is, but Tarman is just pathetic. :poo:

Tarman was great.

Blasphemy! :naughty:
(cool pic by the way. :lol:)

FJ has a point..:think:...I just watched RotLD and there is no way that any of this movie can be taken seriously.

That said, even though I think that the entire premise of talking, running, thinking brain eating zombies is retarded, it's still kinda funny...:lol:

:drinking:

For a while it is, then its annoying.

But I bet everyone agrees:

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave......is the dumbest zombie movie ever made! :?

[detpat]

after the first two it all sucks horribly. three just came across as clumsy and mean spirited and the others were stupid and poorly made horror films with a stolen tag!

[EvilWeasel35]

This is a truely terrible film, but you have to admit, it has it's great moments if you DON'T take it seriously (which I don't think you're supposed to!). I watched this last week (as I had run out of films to watch) and although it's pretty lame it's also a brilliant piss-take on the Romero living dead films. You have to look at it as a parody of Romero otherwise you will see it as one of the worst films ever made. Watch it for what it is supposed to be - a comedy! :) I LOVE the bit when the zombie say's "Braiiiaaans!" and then see more people and says "More Braiiiaaan!s" It's classic! :lol:

[zombie surfer]

I know it is, but Tarman is just pathetic. :poo:

Change the record somebody.:lol:

[retro zombie killer]

after the first two it all sucks horribly. three just came across as clumsy and mean spirited and the others were stupid and poorly made horror films with a stolen tag! Shoot number two was a take off of number one!

[DarthJoe8]

The 3rd was quite different i thought but actually one of my faves.:clap:

This is the one that I like the most also....:scare: I wonder what that means?? :think:


:drinking:

[zombie surfer]

This is the one that I like the most also....:scare: I wonder what that means?? :think:


:drinking:

It means we have similer taste, also in zombie women it seems.:lol:

[mitzidemarco]

I LOVED this film. It's a classic! Out of the 2 zombie films that came out in '85, this one was WAAAAYYY better than that Day of the Dead shit with that moron Bub. Tarman can kick Bub's ass anyday.
I am not saying this just to piss anyone off, this is just my opinion so don't go calling me name and telling me off and all that crap. Dealt with that crap on the Dead Community forum. :evil:

[ZombieGore]

ROTLD is the movie that really got me into zombies. I think its great. You have to look at it as a comedy. Its still one of my favorites.

[mitzidemarco]

Yeah, it was more like a comedy. You're right but it's still great film! :)

[DarthJoe8]

It means we have similer taste, also in zombie women it seems.:lol:


:drinking:True dat!! :drinking:

[zombie surfer]

this one was WAAAAYYY better than that Day of the Dead shit with that moron Bub. Tarman can kick Bub's ass anyday. :evil:

Your'e dicing with death on here with that statement.:lol:

[RIP]

Your'e dicing with death on here with that statement.:lol:

I agree too lol.:lol::drinking:

[detpat]

I saw rotld at a free showing at the University of Pittsburgh. I loved it! i loved the second one too, just not as much. the little flashback scene in the car was classic funny. "it's like this has all happened before......you .....me......THEM" hahahaha:evil:

[RIP]

I loved the doctor in the car scene where he recognizes a patient that's dead lol and then a cut off zombie hand crunches his nuts lol.:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTyl2_rfj0

[detpat]

i thought they were both hilarious! I've even hosted rotld parties when my wife found a brain shaped jello mold. that was a hoot!

[Creeping Death]

I LOVED this film. It's a classic! Out of the 2 zombie films that came out in '85, this one was WAAAAYYY better than that Day of the Dead shit with that moron Bub. Tarman can kick Bub's ass anyday.
I am not saying this just to piss anyone off, this is just my opinion so don't go calling me name and telling me off and all that crap. Dealt with that crap on the Dead Community forum. :evil:

Whoah, Whoa, Whoa! :naughty:

Day of the Dead is classic, Return is bullshit. :poo:

[ZombieGore]

Comparing Day to Return is like comparing Night to Thriller. Both are great, just in different aspects. (I actually dont like thriller or MJ at all but it seemed like a good point lol).

[UNDEAD FRED]

Both Return of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead 85 are awesome, I can go with either one at 1am in the morning. One thing that kind of bugs me is having to put a 85 behind DOTD because of two not that good remakes, there is only one Day of the Dead.:lol:

[Creeping Death]

there is only one Day of the Dead.:lol:

Nuff' Said. :clap:

[LMOE]

I find it shameful that the common misconception about zombies is that can talk and eat only the brains. This only happens in the Return series.

Come on, the Return series is not that great. I personally like the first movie the most, it was pretty funny. The ones that follow try to copy the success of the first one.

Any true zombie fan has seen the series, but for me it's really difficult, I always wait til the movies finishes.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Return of the Living Dead 10/10
Return of the living dead 2 6/10, they changed the soundtrack when they put it on DVD, so it knocked it down a notch
Return of the Living Dead 3 8/10

ROTLD 4-5 someone should get a kick in the nards for these two

[DarthJoe8]

Return of the Living Dead 10/10
Return of the living dead 2 6/10, they changed the soundtrack when they put it on DVD, so it knocked it down a notch
Return of the Living Dead 3 8/10

ROTLD 4-5 someone should get a kick in the nards for these two


:think: I think I agree with you Fred, at least partially...:lol: It's been a while since we agreed on something....:drinking: Peter would kick Steels ass...

[UNDEAD FRED]

:think: I think I agree with you Fred, at least partially...:lol: It's been a while since we agreed on something....:drinking: Peter would kick Steels ass...

Maybe so Darth Joe, maybe so, I did think that ROTLD3 was way better than ROTLD2, That bully kid kind of got on my nerves. I have the VHS tape on ROTLD2, they changed the song when the zombies come out of the graves, totally ruined that scene. The original song was the same one in ROTLD.

[Kris1114]

I love this movie! It's one of my all time favorites! It's purely a cheesy comedy & nothing else. So many memorable lines like "send more paramedics!" and rabid weasels? and "watch your tongue if you like this job!" Come on! That's rich! It's so much fun! Just go with it!

[CityOfChicago]

I was a wee lad when this movie came out. I remember the radio ads with Tarman saying "Brains!" I watched the buh-jeezus outta this movie on VHS. It also helped that I was a mohawked punk back then.

Flash forward many years. I'm out at a neighboorhood pizzaria waiting for my pie, and I start flipping through a copy of Maxim. Suddenly I see an add for ROTLD released on DVD - and the release date was 2 days before! I literally ran to the counter and said - take the pie outta the oven and give it over! I hauled tail to the BestBuy and claimed my prize (along with Killer Klowns - double score!) and spent the evening killing the pie at home.

That story told - this movie is great. But you have to accept it for what it is - a comedic entry into the genre that was made in the 1980's. If you go into it expecting a Romero social commentary (an intentional one at least - you could argue that the punks and the bomb at the end are commentaries of the 1980's) or a Fulci gorefest, of course you're gonna be pissed. But we don't love the original Dawn for it's zombie make-up or CSPWDT for it's acting.

[XposedGuts]

If you go into this movie expecting it to be like its prior popular zombie movies sure you will be let down, but its not ment to be.

Personally one of my top 5 zombie films, and I have seen virtually everything.

[uberchief]

1st of all the one thing that gives away the whole movie is that what ever is reanimating that corpse is a virus, And Virus's die at extreme temperatures. The reason in the movie why the virus spread is from the smoke after insinerating the zombie. So the movie defies it's own meaning.

[ZedHunter]

Um..Okay?
I'm assuming you were just watching it, as I was.

But what you fail to see is...there is no point to this thread.

I,however, thought the movie was a joke. Very bad zombie movie.

[uberchief]

Um..Okay?
I'm assuming you were just watching it, as I was.

But what you fail to see is...there is no point to this thread.

I,however, thought the movie was a joke. Very bad zombie movie.

yes it was quite horrible to be a zombie movie

[ZedHunter]

Kind of like your common sense.

[DarthJoe8]

1st of all the one thing that gives away the whole movie is that what ever is reanimating that corpse is a virus, And Virus's die at extreme temperatures. The reason in the movie why the virus spread is from the smoke after insinerating the zombie. So the movie defies it's own meaning.

I don't think that they ever say what caused it except that it was part of a government project and they "lost" a few containers that were storing zombies. :think:

Zombies that can't "die" are dumb...what's the point.

[XposedGuts]

I don't think that they ever say what caused it except that it was part of a government project and they "lost" a few containers that were storing zombies. :think:

Zombies that can't "die" are dumb...what's the point.

They died when they burned em:evil:

[retro zombie killer]

I saw this again on AMC last night and enjoyed it even cut to shreds with out Trash doing her little dance! Awh!! It's one of the few Zombie Movies I can watch without getting upset that there are talking and running Zombies in it! I just think of ROTLD as a fun little flick!

[ZedHunter]

I liked the part with the midget zombie. THAT was funny.

[Cannon Jack]

ROTLD was a Zombie Comedy. It was a good film but should no more be categorized with serious works then Shaun of the Dead. One must also give credit to the directors and producers for the soundtrack. The collection of bands therein was revolutionary for its time. It still angers me that the later dvd release altered the soundtrack from its original state. This truly was the punk rock zombie film and is as important to the genre as any of Mr. Romero's works. Now for parts 2,3,4,5.... not so much. :clap:

[ZedHunter]

I thought SOTD was better than the ROTLD.
ROTLD was just...ridiculous. It wasnt even funny, it was failed serious/humor.

My 2 cents.

[CityOfChicago]

I love ROTLD. How can you dislike that movie???

[Eknytz]

I thought Necropolis and Rave to the Grave were okay.
Rest sucked.

[detpat]

i felt the same way about sotd, it wasn't very funny beyond certain moments and was just tedious. rotld was funny, just parody of my favorite genre. 2 was ok, but really just a remake of one with different faces [ok, well some different faces] the rest were just poorly made exploitation crap!

[Amish]

I liked the first two well enough. Third was crap four and five were eh... I liked the narcotics concept from the fifth (I thinks it was the fifth).

If it's not RotLD I or II, eh. Give me those two of the series and 4-5 sparingly.

[Thing]

one of THE worst films i've ever seen.

Worst? 'Return' was great!

And has become a cult classic. Trash (Linnea Quigley) was beautiful in that film!

[Dr GonZo]

I think that ROTLD is one of 5 best zombi movies ever made and I love all parts of movie:

- the story and Trioxin 2-4-5 gas (that gas really exists but he don't turn people in zombies; it's only deadly gas...about Trioxin I wrote on my blog HororFilm Playground) as the stuff that transform people and cadavers in zombies
- music (soundtrack is on of the best there it is in film history)
- actors (specially James Caren, Don Calfa and Clue Gulager)
- special effects and make up
- tarman the legend (on of best 10 zombies of all time)
- the end of movie and nuclear strike (Resident Evil lent that part)
- script and onliners
- and we have zomibes that you can't kill and if you inflame them you only got bigger problems

Only negative thing about this masterpiece is we get skeletal zombies (but if you see that this movie is black comedy you will ignore that litle thing) and that is that

I love and second part (but this one is only good horror movie not masterpiece like first part and we have Frank and Freddy characters again)
and the part three is good on his special way.
Part 4 and 5 are crap

[retro zombie killer]

I thought The Original was fun!

[MorganaLeFaye]

- the end of movie and nuclear strike (Resident Evil lent that part)


uh, this was WAY before Resident Evil

[zombiekilling101]

my favorite of the series and one of my fav zombie films. tommy is awesome and enjoy that he plays tommy again in friday the 13th part 6...yeah different character nut same name!

[SWAT Zombie]

i actually saw rotld before i ever saw dotd or notld so the concept of running zombies yelling "brains" didn't worry me. i actually really liked it. this movie got me a little interested in zombie movies initially and then i saw dotd78 and that clinched the deal. been a zombie freak ever since. liked 2, didn't mind 3 (the chick was smmmoking) 4 was ok, more of a traditional type than the others and 5 sucked so many dog's balls that it wasn't funny.
and Tarman utterly ROCKS!!! when i first saw his first appearance in the basement, saying "BBRAAAINNNS!!!" i thought he was the most awesome thing since princess leia put on a metal bikini.

[Rufus_Cane]

- the story and Trioxin 2-4-5 gas (that gas really exists but he don't turn people in zombies; it's only deadly gas...about Trioxin I wrote on my blog HororFilm Playground) as the stuff that transform people and cadavers in zombies


One of the first things I did when I started at uni reading chemistry was to figure out if 2,4,5-Trioxin could exist. Short answer NO. In fact the wording doesn't even make any sense. Disappointing and relieiving in equal measure.


Anyway, ROTLD is one of my very favourite films. Though I find it very difficult to describe it to people who haven't seen it. I find myself having to use the phrase 'very 80s' a lot. Which doesn't help much, because I, and most of the people I try and describe it to were only born in the late 80s :S

(also ROTLD2 I find hard to watch because the first time i saw it was when i was already drunk and was knocking back some bargain vodka and coke and was violently ill, so there's some association there.

But ROTLD3 is also excellent and has one of the strongest stories of a zombie film in that it follows one smooth arc, there's not too many acts or twists. Plus some of the sfx in the military compound are deliciously gruesome.)

[Tennessee Zombie]

The original is a fave of mine, love the premise, the locations, the two goobers in the warehouse & of course the tar-man was awesome. Top all that off with a naked Linnea Quigley & you really can't ask for more!

[SWAT Zombie]

gots ta luv a naked linnea quigley :evil:

[UNDEAD FRED]

Awesome movie, it is in my top 10 horror movies