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Zombies Part II

Part II - MORE ZOMBIES [i.e a bunch of ramblings about zombie media I wrote April this year.] Return of the Living Dead (1985) I would like to mention Return of the Living Dead for a moment. Return of the Living Dead is a really solid movie although it's sort of just its own thing which uses Night of the Living Dead (1968) as a vague backdrop for it. Basically what happens is that there's a medical warehouse containing cadavers and all of these cool dead things inside of it, but also something that's shown is a military experiment where a chemical was used to resurrect the dead - explained in somewhat dubious detail that "In 1969, this all happened. Due to a mishap, they shipped those bodies here. They had to change some of the details in the movie or else the guy who made it would be in real trouble." Anyway, so the whole movie is like somehow both extremely funny but horrifying all at once, and it just kind of works with this energy where people just have litera...