Return of the Living Dead (O'Bannon, 1984): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
Time Out review:
Any film which features a dead, bald and very hungry punk lurching towards the camera screaming 'More Brains!'
gets my vote. Directed by Dan O'Bannon courtesy of George Romero, this is
an energetic cross-referencing of genre: not just a horror movie, but a
comic apocalyptic zombie horror movie. O'Bannon has his cake, eats it,
and then throws it up in the face of the audience. Warehousemen
unwittingly release a zombie interred by the CIA (of course) along with a
nifty gas which ensures that local graveyards are bursting at the seams
with brain-peckish corpses. Most of the film froths and bubbles
merrily: there is a deeply artistic sequence where a punkette dances
naked on a tombstone before being transformed into a zombie, and another
moving bit where para-meds get their heads munched.
Richard Rayner
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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