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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]
John A Russo   [story]
Russell Streiner   [story]
Dan OBannon
 
Edited by: Robert Gordon
 
Production Companys: Cinema 84
Hemdale Film Corporation
 


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Special Effects Department:

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?
     
  • Zombie: Send...more...paramedics!
     
  • Freddy: But I don't care darling, because I love you, and you've got to let me eat your brains!
     
  • Frank: International treaty, all skeletons come from India.
    Freddy: No kidding, how come?
    Frank: How the hell do I know how come? The important question is, where do they get all the skeletons with perfect teeth?
     
  • Trash: Have you ever fantasized about being killed?
     

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.
     
  • The nuclear cannon at the end of the film was actually a WWII German Howitzer.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Dan O'Bannon purposely named the Burt (Clu Gulager) and Ernie (Don Calfa) characters after the Sesame Street characters of the same name.
     
  • Tobe Hooper was originally slated to direct and it was supposed to be filmed in 3-D.
     

Credits Fun:

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

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