Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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Sometimes I miss the 80's, and sometimes I wanna hit myself with a large hammer for missing the 80's. However, some of the radest oddest horror films are children of that neon decade...behold The Return of the Living Dead. Punk charged and filled with stereotypical rock misfits "Return" could quite possibly be the quintessential 80's horror film.

Uneeda Medical Supply Company rests on the out skirts of town, smack dab next to a Cemetery, what a perfect place to start our tale. Freddy (Thom Mathews) has just started at Uneeda as a warehouse clerk and his new supervisor Frank (James Karen), who seems to really love his job, shows Freddy the ins and outs of running a medical supply warehouse. He even goes so far as to show him a cadaver hanging out in a freezer waiting to be allocated to a med school. After Frank shows Freddy around, they take a break in the office where Frank tells an eerie story about how the movie "Night of the Living Dead" was based on a true story. And that it was all caused by a chemical the government accidentally let loose. How does Frank know all this you ask? Well, the bodies of the living dead outbreak were placed in giant oil drums and one of them was accidentally sent to Uneeda and currently resides downstairs in the basement. Frank takes Freddy to see the Can O' Corpse. There's a window in the top of the drum and we can see a rotting head. Freddy gets scared about contamination. Frank brags that it's industrial strength and made in the U.S. of A. and punches the side of the can to emphasize good ole' American ingenuity...and a thick brownish smoke explodes from the side of the can. Jackass.

The credits roll as we watch the body in the can dissolve and muddy. The gas permeates the warehouse. As for the cadaver in the freezer it starts to jump around on its hook. Totally to the curb.

We find a mish-mosh of social miscreants walking down the street trying to figure out what they're gonna do for the night. The best idea they can come up with is picking up Freddy after work. He always knows where the party is. The gang is made up ...

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