The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Overview
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $4,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $14,241,310.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 19.632 |
Directed By
Dan O'Bannon
Crew
Tom Fox
John Daly
Derek Gibson
Dan O'Bannon
Matt Clifford
Dan O'Bannon
Jules Brenner
Frederick B. Van Brunt
Bernie Pock
David Zellitti
John Gillespie
Scott Javine
Monty Cox
Fernando Celis
Kim Robert Koscki
Sara Lee Wade
Ed Nielsen
Robert Jackson
Hank Calia
Michael Bennett
Julio Macat
Ron Judkins
Kenny Myers
Alexander Hendrie
Erik Cord
Pattison Newberry
Wendy Hogan
Tony Rupprecht
Robert M. Amerian
Karen Altman Morgenstern
Clayton Hartley
Robert Randles
Jesse Tango
John Penney
Douglas J. White
Ronald J. Pure Jr.
Belinda Vidaurri
Erik Cord
Mark Helfrich
Bob McCarthy
Blair Burrows
Ethan Wayne
Barbara Benz
Michael Carr
Bruce W. Morgan
Brian J. Williams
Ray West
Richard Lorenzana
Dan Muscarella
Ralph Garrett
Gene Hartline
Paula Moody
Richard Mall
Gary Jensen
Lucien Jervis
Pete Kleinow
Timothy 'Guido' Magaraci
Gene Warren Jr.
Gardner Doolittle
Spiro Razatos
Ray Saniger
Marty Carrillo
Christena Alcorn
Richard Padgett
Robert L. Blatman
Yvette Bliss
Craig Caton
Gary Jensen
Barbara Pokras
Byron Quisenberry
Michael Gastaldo
Rory Flynn
Adam Johnston
Chris Carpenter
Emilie Robertson
Andreas Crawford
Joel Kramer
David M. Robertson
Josh King
Larry Odien
Lesley Levin
Julie Feiner
Dale Johnston
Bob Minkler
Vivian Hengsteler
Grahame Jennings
Bob Stephens
John A. Russo
Ken Kaufman
William Munns
Robert Lucas
Robin L. Neal
Graham Henderson
Russell Streiner
Stanzi Stokes
Allan A. Apone
Rudy Ricci
William Stout
Robert Howland
Robert Gordon
Bob McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
TOP CAST
Clu Gulager
Burt Wilson
James Karen
Frank
Don Calfa
Ernie Kaltenbrunner
Thom Mathews
Freddy
Beverly Randolph
Tina
Linnea Quigley
Trash
Brian Peck
Scuz
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Spider
Mark Venturini
Suicide
John Philbin
Chuck
Jewel Shepard
Casey
Jonathan Terry
Colonel Glover
Cathleen Cordell
Colonel's Wife
Drew Deighan
Paramedic #1
James Dalesandro
Paramedic #2
John Durbin
Radio Corpse #1
David Bond
Radio Corpse #2
Bob Libman
Tac Squad Captain
John Stuart West
Riot Cop #1
Michael Crabtree
Riot Cop #2
Ed Krieger
Riot Cop #3
Robert Craighead
Cop #1
Paul Cloud
Cop #2
Derrick Brice
Gunnery Sergeant
Leigh Drake
Dispatcher
Terry Houlihan
Yellow Cadaver
Allan Trautman
Tarman
Robert J. Bennett
Headless Tarman (as Robert Bennett)
Jerome 'Daniels' Coleman
Legless Corpse
Cherry Davis
½ Lady Corpse
Similar Movies
Four Shades of Brown
An eccentric millionaire dies at a manor in Dalarna in Sweden, leaving behind three sons and a mistress. One of four parallel stories about parents and children. Four sides of Sweden. Four shades of brown.
The Zombinator
College students from Youngstown, Ohio were planning a simple fashion blogging documentary before a zombie invasion changed their film, and their lives. Teaming up with an ex-soldier turned zombie-hunter, the co-eds face threats from the undead and their corporate overlords.
Undead or Alive: A Zombedy
Elmer Winslow is a soldier on the run from the Union Army, and Luke Budd is a cowboy with a broken heart. When the two misfits rob the corrupt sheriff of an old west town, they have no idea that a plague of zombies is sweeping the country, or that Geronimo's sexy niece may be their only hope of survival.
Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead
A psycho scientist sent in to inoculate the luscious young student bodies against a new virus makes a little error in judgment, resulting in a not-so-little flesh-eating zombie problem. Now, with most of the school and all of the teachers running amuck, eating each other, having rabid sex and juggling, it's up to Aki and her new found allies on the Girls Swim Team to take care of business.
Zombacter: Center City Contagion
Professor Jake Northrop is horrified to learn that his experimental, bio-computer bacteria turns people into flesh-eating monsters. While most of his accidental creations are lumbering idiots, some are very different. They can outrun you. They can out-think you, and they're hungry. With the help of Bill Santini, a homeless veteran, and a small group of survivors, the professor must run a gauntlet of ghouls to escape Center City and find a cure for the zombie plague.
Bad Laugh
Schools out in the 1970's, and what are three boys to do but to journey into the psychedelic realm. Their foolish naivety leads them to grossly misread the gravity of their situation and blunder to safety.
Dead Moon Rising
A mysterious disease overtakes the world, and the infected develop a hankering for human flesh. Jim and his fellow Cheapskate Car Rental clerks are oblivious to the changes going on right outside their door, until it literally gets right in their faces. Jim struggles with disgruntled customers, hordes of cannibals, the barely legal April, his certifiable ex-girlfriend Vix (the sexy "Terminatrix"), reconciling issues with his brother, an aversion to guns, and the "pants thing." Can Jim pull it together and rally Louisville's remaining bike gangs and defeat the infected hordes? Maybe with the help of 1000 rounds a minute minigun...
Die and Let Live
Comedy - Benny throws a party to help woo his crush Stephanie. But when bloodthirsty zombies crash the party, Benny and his friends find themselves fighting for their lives! - Josh Lively, Zane Crosby, Sarah Bauer
There's No Such Thing as Zombies
In a world that’s deeply divided into zombie deniers and zombie believers, Carlotta, Colin and Paul are having a love triangle – only one of them is of the undead. In a world where the media's unsure how to report about the zombie outbreak without angering the sponsors, Carlotta invites her ex Paul into her house, ignoring the fact that he's actually a zombie - much to the dismay of her husband Colin, who had (unbeknown to her) killed Paul in the first place.
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
The First Wave
Following the outbreak of an aggressive virus, a young woman awakes in a hospital bed. As the horrifying events that led her there are revealed, it becomes clear that the cure is just the beginning. This short film is a prequel for the feature film, The Third Wave, which was written at the Binger FilmLab 2012. The project also won the Best Story Pitch award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, June 2012.
Cemetery Man
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.
Hard Core Logo
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
Monster
A horror drama short film about how a salesman's visit to a house alters a perfectly normal day for him.
Zombie Lake
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.
Doghouse
A group of men, heading to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce, soon discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.
Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill
When a group of college kids stumble upon a small abandoned town of Sunset Valley, they must fight a band of Zombies led by a Confederate soldier seeking retribution for his grisly execution.
Dead Man Walking
Alex and her boyfriend, Henry, struggle to connect in their secluded home in the woods after the recent death of Alex's father. However, following a trip to the market and a recent outbreak, Henry is attacked by a presumably homeless person forcing the couple to realize how much they truly mean to one another. As the film progresses the couple's newfound connection is met with even greater strife.
Bukraken!
In 2016, journalism student Susana Rojas disappeared without a trace while making a documentary for her end-of-career work. After several years, her project is finally uncovered.
Dead & Breakfast
Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner and chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. But that's only the beginning as nearly all of the town's quirky residents become possessed by an evil spirit and pin down the friends inside the B&B.