The Return of the Living Dead
They're back from the grave and ready to party!
Overview
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $14,241,310
- Production
- Hemdale Film Corporation, Fox Films Ltd., Cinema 84
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Cast
Clu Gulager
Burt
James Karen
Frank
Don Calfa
Ernie
Thom Mathews
Freddy
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Spider
Brian Peck
Scuz
John Philbin
Chuck
Linnea Quigley
Trash
Beverly Randolph
Tina
Jewel Shepard
Casey
Mark Venturini
Suicide
Jonathan Terry
Colonel Glover
Cathleen Cordell
Colonel's Wife
David Bond
Radio Corpse #2
Michael Crabtree
Riot Cop #2
Robert Craighead
Cop #1
Drew Deighan
Paramedic #1
Leigh Drake
Dispatcher
John Durbin
Radio Corpse #1
Ed Krieger
Riot Cop #3
Crew
- Director
- Dan O'Bannon
- Producers
- Derek Gibson,Tom Fox,John Daly
- Cinematography
- Jules Brenner
- Composer
- Matt Clifford
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User Reviews from TMDB
Gimly
October 26, 2018
So. Much. Damn. Fun. _The Return of the Living Dead_ always takes me back to being a teenager. In a good way. _Trash is taking off her clothes again._ _Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._
CinemaSerf
October 17, 2025
“Burt” (Clu Gulager) is regaling new boy “Freddy” (Thom Matthews) with spooky tales in their medical supply warehouse and that takes them to the basement where the relics of the last zombie attack were stored in hermetically sealed metal jars. Rather stupidly, they open one and release not just it’s toxic gases but also one of it’s fairly peckish occupants! Fleeing for their very lives, they call in the boss “Frank” (James Karen) who in turn drags in the local funeral director “Ernie” (Don Calfa…