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Actors: James Karen, Don Calfa, Clu Gulagher
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Return of the Living Dead |
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A parody of the classic Night of the Living Dead, this movie is a horror/comedy set in a medical supply warehouse, a mortuary and a cemetary.
Freddy is a new employee of the U-Need-A Medical Supply company and is staying late to learn the ropes from the warehouse manager. Eventually they come to the basement, where a secret is hiding: The military made a clerical error and shipped drums containing zombies to the warehouse.
The bodies are contaminated with a chemical called 2-4-5 Trioxin, which the two manage to accidentally release.
They discover to their horror that the smelly fumes have reanimated all the dead things in the warehouse: split dogs, butterflies pinned to a frame, and worst of all, a medical cadaver locked in a cooler.
They call in the company's owner, who decides to cover the whole mess up by cutting the bodies up. This doesn't work, as the pieces still keep coming after them!
--tiepilot912, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Return of the Living Dead |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Parody movie?
Yes
Horror film?
Yes
Kind of Horror Story
- the monster chased me!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- servant
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/medium straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- Very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- other weird color
unclothed?
- full frontal
Setting
Big cities?
Yes
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie
- funny
Comedy or somewhat funny movie?
Yes
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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