“They're back from the grave and ready to party!”
The Return of the Living Dead
7.2
2,311 votes·1985
·1h 31m
·MovieComedyHorrorScience Fiction
Overview
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
Commercial Verdict
Super Hit
Revenue vs Budget3.6x
0x1x2x3x4x5x
Strong box office performer
Keywords
cemeterydark comedycrematoriumpunk rockundeadzombieparamedicatticwarehousenight of the living deadwalking deadfemale stripping
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
Derrick Brice
Gunnery Sergeant
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