Return Of The Living Dead

Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon has been a sporadic genre talent at best, his screenplays ranging from the interesting (ALIEN; BLUE THUNDER) to the awful (DEAD AND BURIED). RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, his directorial debut, is a horror parody of George Romero's "Living Dead" trilogy based on a story by John Russo, who coauthored the script to Romero's original film and shares story rights. Set mostly in a medical supply house owned by Burt (Clu Gulager) and run by Frank (James Karen), the movie details the events of a night in which an experimental nerve gas pioneered by the military leaks and brings the dead back to life. Frank explains to a young employee, Freddy (Thom ...