![]() ![]() George A Romero had given us the ‘rules’ when it came to zombies. O’Bannon had some new ideas about zombies, which did not catch on at the time but would become more of the norm decades later. O’Bannon merges heavy metal with nakedness and violence, with black humour from 1980s horror films being the cherry on the cupcake. It also contains all the things that seemed to earmark it as a mid 80s horror film punks, zombies speaking, over the top laughs and sticky special effects – obviously aimed at a specific audience. The Return of the Living Dead, with its mixture of satirised comedy and vulgar horror, was ripe to become a cult classic, giving the film a solid appeal to both horror and zombie fans. Once again, Dan O’Bannon has taken a genre and put his twist on it, and in this case it has bits of brains splattered all over the place. ![]() Rave around the graves, naked Linnea Quigley, the first time zombies want your brains, telling you its inspiration of right there in the title, and the Tarman… it could only be The Return of the Living Dead. ![]()
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