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The Return of the Living Dead
They're Back From The Grave and Ready To Party!
( Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi )


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US Runtime: 91 min

Premiere Date:
Aug 16, 1985   [USA]
 
Writers: Rudy Ricci   [story]   [story]
John A Russo   [story]   [story]
Russell Streiner   [story]   [story]
Dan OBannon
 
Music by Matt Clifford
Robert Randles   [additional music]
 
Edited by: Robert Gordon
 
Production Companys: Cinema 84
Hemdale Film Corporation
 


Special Effects:

Fantasy II Film Effects
Makeup Effects Laboratories Inc.
 
Wizards Inc.
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$4,000,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color (DeLuxe)
Laboratory:
Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
DeLuxe, USA - prints
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm
Production Dates:
04 Jul 1984 - 28 Aug 1984

Quotes:

  • Burt Wilson: I thought you said that if we destroyed the brain, it would die.
    Frank: It worked in the movie!
    Burt Wilson: Well it ain't working now Frank.
    Freddy: You mean the movie lied?
     
  • Trash: Have you ever fantasized about being killed?
     
  • Freddy: You made me brake my hand completely off, Tina.
     
  • Trash: Do you ever wonder about all the different ways of dying? You know, violently? And wonder, like, what would be the most horrible way to die?
    Spider: I try not too think about dying too much.
    Trash: Mm. Well for me, the worst way would be for a bunch of old men to get around me, and start biting and eating me alive.
    Spider: I see.
    Trash: First, they would tear off my clothes...
    Chuck: Hey, somebody get some light over here, Trash is taking off her clothes again.
     
  • Paramedic #1: You have no pulse, your blood pressure's zero-over-zero, you have no papillary response, no reflexes and your temperature is 70 degrees.
    Freddy: Well, what does that mean?
    Paramedic #1: Well, it's a puzzle because, technically, you're not alive. Except you're conscious, so we don't know what it means.
    Freddy: Are you saying we're dead?
    Paramedic #2: Well, let's not jump to conclusions.
    Freddy: Are you saying we're dead?!
    Paramedic #2: No conclusions.
    Paramedic #1: Obviously I didn't mean you were really dead. Dead people don't move around and talk.
     

Trivia:

  • Jewel Shepard originally took the role of "Trash", but declined the part after she found out what the wardrobe (or lack there of!) consisted of, So the role was assumed by Linnea Quigley, who became a B-Flick "Scream Queen" mostly because of this movie.
     
  • Tobe Hooper was originally slated to direct and it was supposed to be filmed in 3-D.
     
  • The eye-test poster (seen most clearly after Frank and Freddy run into Burt's office after hearing the first re-animated cadaver) in Burt's office actually reads "Burt is a slave driver" if you put the letters together.
     
  • The nuclear cannon at the end of the film was actually a WWII German Howitzer.
     
  • Dan O'Bannon purposely named the Burt (Clu Gulager) and Ernie (Don Calfa) characters after the Sesame Street characters of the same name.
     

Credits Fun:

  • The credits play over scenes of the movie that involve Frank and Freddy.
     

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