The Return of the Living Dead Reviews
Cinema Crazed
For pure eighties, punk rock, walking dead, brain eating mayhem, this is the film to watch.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Little White Lies
this overnight zombie apocalypse is a tongue-in-cheek brainload of hard-rocking fun.
Film Threat
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Ed O'Bannon and John Russo may have intended The Return of the Living Dead as a comedy, but it's just too damn gory, too scary and too good to be dismissed as a zom com.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Calgary Movies
Equal parts horror and comedy, Return of the Living Dead finds success on both fronts.
Projection Booth
Effectively announces itself as a horror movie deliberately pitted against customary cinematic values.
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| Original Score: B
Slant Magazine
A tongue-in-cheek, splatter-laden homage to George A. Romero's zombie pictures.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film Threat
A fresh and immensely entertaining take on the zombie genre
| Original Score: 5/5
Needcoffee.com
It's a shame that the franchise went straight to Campsville, because it had a good start.
| Original Score: 4/5
Juicy Cerebellum
The definitive splatterpunk movie. Takes perverse delight in being disgusting. Dan O'Bannon's screenplay hits your funny bone with a meathook and doesn't let go.
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| Original Score: 9/10
KFOR Channel 4 News
A funny, gore-spattered homage.
| Original Score: 3/5
About.com
Great re-interpretation of the Romero series. Scary in its hopelessness, funny in its extremity.
| Original Score: 4/5
San Francisco Examiner
A beauty of a cult classic.
| Original Score: 4/5
Film Freak Central
Turns a satirical eye on Reagan's hawkish heart, the sprung logic of Italian zombie movies, and John Hughes' brat-pack films.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Filmcritic.com
impressively ornate yet extremely cheesy
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
This isn't a sequel - it's a reinventing of how zombies had been seen on the screen
