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Rework, remake, homage, tribute, call Return of the Living Dead (1985) whatever you'd like, I just think it's a damn good film which achieves something not a lot of movies of its kind manage to do in successfully mixing two genres, those being horror and comedy, to create a third, which I call a `hormadey' (look at that, I just invented a new word right before your eyes...patent pending...quick, call the people at Webster's...I bet they pay good money for new words)...Sam Raimi did it in Evil Dead II (1987), although he called it `splatstick', Peter Jackson did it in some of his early like films Bad Taste (1987), and even more so in Braindead (1992) aka Dead Alive, and Stuart Gordon did it in Re-Animator (1985), just as Dan O'Bannon has done so with this film. Co-written and directed by Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Dead & Buried, Blue Thunder), the film features an excellent cast including Clu Gulager (McQ, A Force of One), James Karen (Poltergeist, Apt Pupil, Superman Returns), Don Calfa (Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, Weekend at Bernie's), and Thom Mathews (Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Alien from L.A.). Also appearing is Beverly Randolph, John Philbin (The New Kids, Point Break), Jewel Shepard (Hollywood Hot Tubs), Miguel A. Núñez Jr. (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Carnosaur 2), scream queen Linnea Quigley (Creepozoids, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama), Mark Venturini, who sadly passed away in 1996, and Brian Peck, the only actor to appear in all three Return of the Living Dead films.
As the film begins, we find ourselves at the Uneeda Medical Supply company `You need it...we got it'. It's Freddie's (Mathews) first day as a stockboy, and co-worker Frank (Karen) is showing him the ropes, along with the prosthetics, bedpans, skeletons, and yes, cadavers (man, they weren't kidding about having what I need, particularly in a nice bedpan). A curious Freddie inquires as to what's the weirdest thing Frank has ever seen during his long tenure at the company to which Frank relates a fantastic tale about how some years ago, a chemical created a chemical for the military that had a strange side effect, namely, it brought the dead back to life. The resulting mess was cleaned up, and the reanimated corpses were stuffed into sealed containers. Many of the supposedly true events were then turned into a film that we know as George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (nice acknowledgement), although a number of facts were changed to avoid litigation. Anyway, due to a military snafu, some of the containers were accidentally shipped to Uneeda, and have been sitting in the basement ever since, undisturbed...until now...while showing Freddie the containers, Frank slaps the side of one, a seal breaks, and the gas squirts out all over the two men knocking them out, and also into the air ducts, which, in turn, revives the corpsicle in the freezer. The boys begin to freak, and decide to call the owner Burt (Gulager), figuring he'll know what to do...after some debating, then end up hacking the lively decedent into parts, stuffing the parts into garbage bags, taking said bags across the street to the crematorium and asking the resident mortician Ernie Kaltenbrunner (Calfa), who Burt's been friends with for a long time (get it? Burt and Ernie? Ah well...) to burn the evidence. Ernie finally agrees, and the parts do burn into ash, but an unforeseen result is the smoke from the burning of the body is released through the chimney. This, coupled with the quickly approaching thunderstorm, causes the fumes to seep into the ground, causing a...reaction among the long dormant residents of the graveyard, the same graveyard Freddie's friends are hanging out at while waiting for Freddie to get off work...well, I think you can put two and two together and surmise, like the South, the dead shall rise again, and they do...and they're hungry...for juicy, juicy brains...
I think this is a great movie, for someone who can appreciate it...one of the best aspects of the film are the colorful and distinctive characters, played very well by the actors. There isn't a whole lot of development, but they're still interesting enough to keep you watching. Perhaps my favorite character of the film was that of Burt, the boss and owner of the medical supply company played by Clu Gulager. His pragmatism played off extremely well off the exponentially growing horror of the animated corpses, and created a sort of bizarre sense that he was more worried about how all this was going to affect business, rather than for his own mortality. Eventually he does realize the grievous nature of the situation, but up until then it was pretty funny, particularly because he didn't overplay it...my favorite scene involved the sequence after Burt and the boys hacked up the spastic corpse and then brought it across the street to the mortuary, in an effort to get Burt's friend Ernie to get rid of everything by burning it up in his crematorium. At first Burt tries to explain the wiggling bags as a shipment of rabid weasels, rather than tell Ernie the truth. After awhile, and many questions from Ernie, Burt finally does come clean, but his initial attempts at subterfuge are hilarious. A couple of other great performances are given by James Karen as Frank, the long time warehouse employee seeming happy to have a new apprentice, even to the point of showing off a little, and Don Calfa as Ernie, the gun toting mortician who develops a scientific interest in the corpses. Thom Mathews also did very well, especially near the end of the picture, as the sickness from inhaling the noxious gas earlier finally overtakes him. The walking dead were much more lively and active in this film, more so than I had seen in films previous, which added a nice spin to the notion that the reanimated dead are only capable of lumbering about. In terms of special effects and make up, the detail in the corpses was most excellent, especially that half woman corpse the group captures and Ernie questions in the latter half of the movie. Also, the Tarman corpse, the one that was released from the military container, was exquisitely detailed and the actor who played the part had his movements down perfectly, or at least in terms of how I thought a recently released from his barrel, rotting, festering, slimy corpse would move about. Everything worked so well together here, the directing, the script, quotable dialog, the humor, the nasty bits, the acting, all tied together with a carefully chosen soundtrack featuring bands like, among others, T.S.O.L, The Damned, The Flesheaters, Roky Erickson, and The Cramps. All in all, a completely harmonious balance and truly fun entertainment for the sick and twisted. Oh yeah, there's a couple of great nekkid bits featuring Jewel Shepard, who plays a punky girl obsessed with all things gruesome and morbid.
This DVD release features both the widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, along with a fullscreen version, both looking sharp and clean. The Dolby Digital audio also comes through very well and clear. As far as special features, there is an audio commentary track with director Dan O'Bannon and production designer William Stout (I was kinda surprised they didn't get any of the actors involved), along with a featurette titled `Designing the Dead' (13:37), conceptual artwork by William Stout, TV spots, and both an G rated and R rated trailers for the film.
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Tolles Futurepak jedoch was sollen die Filmangaben auf der Rückseite ?? Der Film ist natürlich Kult und der Wahnsinn !!
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Reviewed in Germany on June 19, 2018
Erst einmal zu dem Futurepak:
Ich dachte einfach nur Wow, als ich das tolle Lenticular Cover von dem Futurepak gesehen habe ! Es ist einfach toll gestaffelt und sieht fabelhaft aus ! Jeder der den Film kennt, der kennt auch das Cover das nun endlich ohne störender Schrift und in tollem 3D zu sehen ist.
Es ist Gott sei Dank der englische Titel zu sehen und auf dem Grabstein steht in deutsch "Verdammt die Zombies kommen". Das ist einfach toll und auch das das Lenticular, dass in einer Randprägung eingepasst ist, sieht klasse aus ABER, dann wollte ich es rausnehmen aber es ist doch tatsächlich reingeklebt worden ! Das geht für mich gar nicht aber trotzdem sieht es geil aus !
Dann klappt man das Futurpak auf und man sieht 2 tolle Conceptzeichungen aus alten Video und DVD Covern von alten Auflagen. Das sieht toll aus und hat auch kräftige Farben und auch der Futurepak Vorteil, nämlich das kein Mittelsteg stört, macht es um so schöner.
Nun aber kommt der starke Wehrmutstropfen:
Sie haben doch tatsächlich die ganzen Filmangaben, die normal auch beim Futurpak auf einer J-Card stehen, auf die Rückseite gedruckt !!!!
Was soll das bitte ? Da macht KSM so ein tolles Futurepak von einem Kultfilm und dann so was ? Das geht wirklich gar nicht mehr in der heutigen Zeit und vor allem, da sich die Futurepak's ja in der Qualität von den Steelbook's abheben müssen ! Wirklich, ich habe ewig rumgekratzt um endlich das Blatt von hinten zu lösen aber da war keines ! Echt Traurig KSM !!!
Es sind 2 Blu-ray's im Futurepak. Es sind die gleichen wie auch schon in dem 3 Blu-ray Mediabook jedoch natürlich nur 2 Blu-ray's. Es ist auf der ersten Blu-ray natürlich der Film drauf mit einigen Extras und auf der zweiten Blu-ray ist eine Work Print Fassund dabei, die ich mir aber wegen der schlechten Quallität noch nicht ganz angetan habe. Die Menüs sind toll gestalltet. Auf der ersten Blu-ray sind die beiden Zombis vom Lenti Cover zu sehen und beim Discmenü der zweiten Blu-ray das Vover mit den beidem am Grabstein. Es sind sehr viele Extras zu sehen, die ich aber noch nicht alle gesehen habe aber der Fan kommt voll auf seine Kosten und auch die alten Schauspieler sind fast alle zu sehen (wie sie heute aussehen).
Die Qualität des Films ist sehr gut, wenn man das alter und das Budget von damels betrachtet. Der Ton ist leider in deutsch nur in DTS -HD Master 2.0 zu hören. In englisch gibt es eine DTS-HD Master 5.1 Tonspur.
Das Bild ist wirlich sehr gut geworden und was mir besonders gut gefällt, in Vollbild auf meinem HD Fernseher !!
Fazit: Ein wirklich toller Kultfilm der endlich auch in Deutschland ab 16 Jahren freigegeben ist ! Ich habe ihn schon bestimmt 20 mal gesehen und ich entdecke jedes mal etwas neues. Der Ton ist leider nur in Stereo aber trotzdem ganz gut und das Bild ist sehr gut für das Alter aber nicht wirlich HD Quallität. Das Futurepack sieht wirlich auf dem ersten Blick sehr gut aus, aber das Lenticular Cover sollte man schon wegmachen können und darunter auch ein Bild haben aber es sieht trotzdem toll aus und das Lenti ist toll gestaffelt. Was wirklich gar nicht geht ist, dass auf der Rückseite die ganzen Filmangaben stehen ! Das muss KSM in Zukunft ändern !
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