It’s bleak, it’s scary, and it’s incredibly gory, but it celebrates the fun in all of those things (think Creepshow or Evil Dead 2). That is to say that much of its comedy is found in its horror. Return of the Living Dead is a horror comedy in the truest sense of that term. After all, this was the movie that established the trope that zombies crave brains. The nearby employees and a group of ’80s punks just looking for a good time must now try to survive the night and battle some of the toughest and smartest undead ever put on film. A series of truly bad decisions soon leads to all the corpses in a nearby graveyard being reanimated. He accidentally causes the shoddily built barrel to leak, which not only unleashes the zombie inside but infects the pair of woefully ignorant employees. One day, a worker at a medical supply warehouse is trying to impress a new hire by showing him a canister that apparently contains the remains of the “real” monster that inspired Night of the Living Dead. Essentially an early meta-horror movie, Return of the Living Dead takes place in a world where the Night of the Living Dead film exists (its actual connections to that franchise are fascinating and complicated).
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