Return of the Living Dead [Special Edition]

Director: Dan O'Bannon

Overview

When a mysterious military chemical gets into the atmosphere it ends up soaking into a cemetery down in bayou land and the bodies are brought to life. It seems that after their healthy snoozes, these creeps have developed quite an appetite, but not for just any old food. These hungry zombies want human brains!

Product Details

Release Date:	09/11/2007
UPC:	0027616085474
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	R
Source:	MGM (VIDE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	4,215

Special Features

Audio Commentary With Cast, Crew and Undead; Audio Commentary With Director Dan OBannon and Production Designer William Stout; The Decade of Darkness Featurete; Return of the Living Dead - The Dead Have Risen Featurette; Zombie Subtitles For the Film; Designing the Dead Featurette.

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clu Gulager	Burt
James Karen	Frank
Don Calfa	Ernie
Thom Mathews	Freddy
Beverly Randolph	Tina
John Philbin	Chuck
Jewel Shepard	Casey
Miguel A. Nunez Jr.	Spider
Linnea Quigley	Trash
Mark Venturini	Suicide
Jonathan Terry	Col. Glover
Cathleen Cordell	His Wife
Drew Deighan	Paramedic
James Dalesandro	Paramedic
John Durbin	Radio Corpse
David Bond	Radio Corpse
Bob Libman	Tac Squad Captain
John Stuart West	Riot Cop
Ed Krieger	Riot Cop
Michael Crabtree	Cop
Robert Craighead	Cop
Paul Cloud	Cop
Leigh Drake	Dispatcher
Derrick Brice	Gunnery Sergeant
Terrence M. Houlihan	Yellow Cadaver
Allan Trautman	Tarman
Robert Bennett	Headless Tarman,Headless Tarman
Brian Peck	Scuz
Jerome "Daniels" Coleman	Legless Corpse
Thom Matthews	Freddy
Stanzi Stokes	Actor
Alexandre Trauner	Tarman
Cherry Davis	1/2 Lady Corpse
Matt Clifford	Composer
Barry Goldberg	Composer

Technical Credits

Rudy Ricci

John A. Russo

Dan O'Bannon

John Daly	Executive Producer,Producer
Tom Fox	Producer
Derek Gibson	Executive Producer,Producer
Graham Henderson	Producer
Rudy Ricci	Screenwriter
John A. Russo	Screenwriter
William Munns	Special Effects
Dan O'Bannon	Screenwriter
Ron Judkins	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Return of the Living Dead
1. Perfect Teeth [:09]
2. Army Secret [3:55]
3. Vapor/Main Titles [3:30]
4. On Call [3:03]
5. A Little Problem [4:28]
6. Dark Fantasy [:44]
7. Let Him Out [3:18]
8. A Big Favor [1:33]
9. Dust to Dust [5:13]
10. Getting Soaked [6:51]
11. Hungry [:35]
12. Technically Speaking [4:23]
13. They're Out There [2:02]
14. Under Siege [3:27]
15. Rigor Mortis [3:27]
16. Zombie Prisoner [4:35]
17. Send More Cops [1:05]
18. Transformation [2:50]
19. Escape Attempt [2:59]
20. Surrounded [2:57]
21. Call For Help [3:40]
22. In Case of Emergency [5:01]
23. Contingency Plan [:11]
24. Spectacular Results/End Titles [3:39]

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Language and Audio: English Stereo
Language and Audio: Spanish Mono
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Return of the Living Dead - The Dead Have Risen
The Decade of Darkness
Designing the Dead
Bloody Trailer
Even Blooper Trailer
Jeepers Creepers Trailer
Jeepers Creepers 2 Trailer
MGM Horror Films Trailer

Editorial Reviews

Like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, whose central premise it loosely reworks, this seemingly standard-issue gore-fest offers more than meets the eye. It's not a genre-defining masterpiece like the source of its inspiration, but it is a relatively clever popcorn flick with more gruesome imagery and self-aware humor than most such films that glutted the mid-'80s marketplace. The punk rock trappings of its young cast were years out of date by the time of release -- just like in the John Hughes movies that ruled the multiplexes at the time. And in many ways, Return of the Living Dead comes off like The Breakfast Club, dressed up, or down, in dingy horror movie threads. Played with a knowing wink and a splash of special effects, juvenile-delinquent stereotypes provide a convenient framework for the inevitable escalation of cannibalism and thrills. By positing that the original Night of the Living Dead was based on a real incident involving a chemical that turns human corpses into brain-thirsty monsters, director/co-screenwriter Dan O'Bannon gets to thread in a slyly humorous subplot about a vigilant army officer. Even better is the campy dialogue of the titular zombies and the queasily funny set pieces. One sequence involving a warehouse full of medical specimens suddenly come to life gives rise to the indelible image of a "half-dog" and an angry butterfly collection -- surely worthy twists on a concept Romero himself revisited again and again.