Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
- cemetery
- dark comedy
- crematorium
- punk rock
- undead
- zombie
- paramedic
- attic
- warehouse
- night of the living dead
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. — Spider
- Brian Peck — Scuz
- John Philbin — Chuck
- Linnea Quigley — Trash
- Beverly Randolph — Tina
- Jewel Shepard — Casey
- Mark Venturini — Suicide
- Jonathan Terry — Colonel Glover
- Cathleen Cordell — Colonel's Wife
- David Bond — Radio Corpse #2
- Derrick Brice — Gunnery Sergeant
- Directed
- Dan O'Bannon
- Written
- Rudy Ricci, Russell Streiner, John A. Russo, Dan O'Bannon
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 2,349 ratings
- Studio
- Hemdale Film Corporation, Fox Films Ltd., Cinema 84
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1985 · You’re hereThe Return of the Living Dead
Where it starts.
Return of the Living Dead Part II
1988
Return of the Living Dead III
1993
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
