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In some other zombie faction it didn't work there even a zombie mutated after it set on fire thus rapidly regenerated its flesh and harden it or a zombie that suddenly mutated some part of it flesh into bone for extra durability....or another one that suddenly grew like six arm and stated crawling like a spider. ........
Also a deep sense of tragedy. When the worker burns himself in the cremation chamber to avoid the pain of being permanently consciously dead. Pretty dark stuff.
@@connarkent282 That and they're smart. Despite suffering from intense decay, their minds are as clear as they were in life. Next, they are in a state of constant agony and the only relief they can get is in your skull. They will do ANYTHING to make it stop.
Return of the Living Dead terrified me as a kid because there was no winning against it. I actually love its concept that zombies were coherent and suffering in a way that compelled them to kill for brains. I can't help but wonder, will we ever see this idea taken further?
I doubt we'll see it taken further in anything big budget. They got close in some of those Teen style movies though. Warm bodies, as bad a movie as it was, used the idea of the zombies having intelligence and a goal/reason for eating brains. I feel as though we really do need a new movie with zombies like this that takes it further. Instead of the zombies becoming more human like they always seem to become more Monstrous. Imagine how much better TWD would have been had the zombies been capable of mimicking or just capable speech. the room for the idea that there still is awareness in a zombie but inability or no desire to not eat people, while feeling everything from gunshots to their own flesh rotting away. Almost every "big scene" in the show gets 100x creepier. There are some rather boring tv shows that use the idea, but they never take it in the right direction and always end up too teen drama. sorry long post.
@@trebot9292266 Oh yeah, I remember Warm Bodies. Super Teen chick flick, I was actually surprised by some of the deeper depth it superficially played with.
When the paramedics turn on the headlights and there's zombies everywhere...scared the heck out of me as a kid And the suicide cremation scene was hard for me too as a kid. Probably shouldn't have sneaked and watched it at 9 years old lol
What's worse than a Zombie? a Person, cause you never know their true intentions and plan better way to kill you... but what's worse than a Person? an intelligent Zombie...
Despite its dark humor, I consider "Return of the Living Dead" to be the scariest zombie film ever made. The zombies invincibility, speed, speech, and intelligence make them such a terrifying presence. Tarman gave me countless nightmares as a kid.
Sort of like "military grade" seems to give people a sense of superior quality and gives us Vets a sense of dread because it was built by the lowest bidder.
@Soloman Grundy I mean there’s connective tissue, obviously, else it’d just fall all to pieces the second it came out of the ground, so maybe that’s how it’s moving? Like how necromorphs from dead space use essentially useless flesh like organs and such to add on more musculature, maybe the trioxen mutated the connective tissue into something like a living creature all on its own, able to move the whole thing like a line of ants moving in unison with each other to take down an obstacle. I don’t know, I’m not a fuckin’ doctor. I am a lore master though
Literally one of the most terrifying virus, it so deadly not even a headshot or dismemberment could stop them. This is why we need elemental weapons now.
Bill Clinton Oh hell yes. I saw it when I was about 7 or 8 and it scared the shit out of me for those same reasons (particularly Tar Man). But as time went on, this movie took on kind of a mythical place in my mind. When I was a teen, I started chasing that same level of fear I had watching RotLD as a child but of course could never reach that same level once I was older. I think that is what set me up on a lifelong obsession with horror, though.
What I want to know now is how it knew that immediately. Do these zombies have the ability to identify other zombies? How can they do that? This is why I love this movie, it's full of interesting stuff like this to think about.
X. X. I think the Trixie-infected zombies can spot non-zombies from the smell of their brains. This is just from memory... but around the final scene in the movie - while Tina has locked herself in the attic above the mortician’s room, I’m pretty sure Freddy says something about being able to smell her brains as he’s trying to get her to let him in the room.
It's a good point, but Freddy and Frank weren't actually dead yet, hence all the coughing and vomiting. The cadaver attacked Burt because he was directly in it's line of sight
@@Neon_Ghost1 - Ya, it makes sense that as soon as they woke up they were essentially dead at that point, and if their pulse was checked it might confirm that. What I don't get is how they turned into zombies in the sequel. They hardly had any exposure to the gas.
It actually has a pretty good amount of dark comedy in it. Not in-your-face or slap-stick like the bullshit sequel but there are definitely some funny parts. Probably the best zombie movie out there. If you haven't seen it, I highly, highly recommend it.
This is a scary film for those that may never have seen this or little kids. I watched when I was 3 or 4. The only thing that scared me was when seeing all the zombies running around and when Tarman says Brains (especially in the second film). I didn't realize it was a comedy until I was about 15. So teenagers and young adults would find it a kick. Lol
This is one of the first horror movies I saw, as a child, with my dad, and still one of my favorites. We rented this and Evil Dead while living out in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Suffice to say they terrified me at the time, but I grew to love them every year and couldn't and can't stop watching them to this day. Nice video!
Thanks Michael, the same thing happened to me here in Australia with ALiens. I watched it with my dad in Perth as a 7 year old and suffice to say, I couldnt sleep for a few night lol oddly enough, I still watched it every year without fail :)
Love those movies, could've been a great double feature. Evil Dead perfectly terrifies the audience with demons possessing humans taking over humanity and is unnerving, RotLD explores an existential threat of never dying. Excellent childhood movies.
This is one of the best movies ever made, and perhaps the best zombie movie ever. The 1985 movie Life Force is also a masterpiece, but with alien vampires that turned people into zombies.
The scene where the paramedic turns on his headlight to a gang of corpses was horrifying to see as a kid and even now as a grown man I still think that's what I'd see at night when the lights come up 😂
This was the film that got me started with the zombie genre. At the age of 10 I rented this movie at my local video store. If you are wondering how a person of that age was allowed to rent this movie, let's just say the times where different. I was also able to purchase cigarettes for my mother without any problems, again the times were different.
It's a standing testament to the ongoing debate of practical vs CG effects. My opinion is that practical wins out almost every time. I imagine when they eventually remake this movie (you know it's coming they've been remaking everything from the 80's/90s/early 2000's) that CG will be inevitably used because it seems they've grown too dependent on it and no longer use practical effects.
@@Dragonking1984 I think a mix of practical effects and CGI should be used. When both are utilized tactfully, they provide fantastic results. I think Jurassic Park is the best example of an appropriate balance between CGI and practical effects.
@@thescarecrowman I agree if you're going to use CG use it as a complementary enhancement for practical. The prob is Like i have said once they seen how much easier it is to green screen things and knowing how much work goes into practical (more then CGI) the path of a lazy lack luster future of CGI spoogefests (looking at you star wars movies) was made clear. And they haven't looked back.
In Germany the movie is called "verdammt die Zombies kommen" ="damn the zombies are coming". And he was banned until 2011 here. But it looks really cool, thanks. I will watch it.
@Juan Sanchez Apparently it was more explicit in the older drafts of the script, but they decided to tone it down to just hints like his gun and choice of music.
Imagine my disappointment when listening to the commentary on the DVD I find out she's wearing a mirkin. They used flesh colored latex to cover up Linnea Quigley's naughty bits.
Thanks for covering this I love this movie I remember watching it as a kid and thinking to my self “wouldn’t that be some crazy shit if that actually happens”
Silver Fox The zombies were put in tanks from the hospital, which means the zombies were actual people that rose from the morgue, before being “killed” and put in the trioxin tanks.
@SgtBaker16 I think the second and third movies expand on this. Trioxin zombies are largely indestructible, yes, but they can be disabled with a kind of taser weapon and 'incapacitated' for an amount of time (it's how the army clears up the outbreak at the end of the 2nd and 3rd movies), so they seem to be weak to electrical disruption/stunning. They probably discovered this by accident during the initial outbreak, then shocked the hell out of the bodies and stuffed them into the drums.
The fact that the zombies eat human brains to briefly avoid eternal pain is horrifying and to date the scene that reveals this fact is one of the most chilling I have ever seen. It's the closest thing I can imagine to hell on earth.
In 1985, I was glued to my VCR watching this masterpiece. The horror of the zombies was only matched by the Army's willingness to nuke civilians. What an ending! Only after I saw it again in the 90's did I realize the humor in this gem. Dan O'Bannon was a great storyteller. This is a must-watch classic for any student of horror films
This movie was the introduction of the "track star" zombie. Add the facts that they are intelligent and unkillable makes them the most dangerous zombies in history. Of All Time
Logan Waltz Doesn’t that just make them better? They’re still always there, its just that there’s so much more panic and fear and bewilderment when they’re fast.
@Logan Waltz Oh, they're not unkillable. They just never found the right method. In the sequel, it's discovered that electrocution ends them permanently. Their nerves fry. Trioxin is a nerve agent, you see. Another thing is that these zombies feel pain, allowing you to hurt them. It needs to be incredibly brutal (like powerful acid directly in the face and eyes), but it can send them reeling, thrashing around in pain. All that aside, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. How does their speed, durability and intelligence negate the fact there is no place safe and they are always there?
One of the best scary movies of the 80's ! So graphic without the cg's, they don't make movies like this anymore. 1. Tarman was scary & made your heart race getting so close to eating Tina 2. The girl dancing naked in the cemetery was funny 3. Freddy creeped me out, especially after he found them in the loft at the end 4. The ending was good, since the whole disaster started over again
I always wondered, since Freddy and Frank had breathed the gas in the beginning of the movie and caused Freddy to turn (Frank didn't because he cremated himself before he could), if you were walking around with an open wound and that rain that contained that gas, would you also slowly turn into a zombie like Freddy did?
@@paulysmallz8095Wrong, only direct exposure to the gas causes infection, aside from that you need to first be dead and then resurrected to become a zombie. Just having it fall on you isn't enough, this is due to it being diluted in the clouds, that's why for example the nukes would 100% work as any moisture would be evaporated past the point of rain being possible.
@@TheAverageProgram Yup the best way was too electricity electrocute them like part 2 but in part 3 they froze them with that gun and in part 4 and 5 head shots work.
This movie scared the shit out of me when i was younger because i had never seen make up effects like this, and the zombies were unstoppable. Didnt they all die in the end and the town was a complete loss?
God, this movie scared the living piss out of me when I was a kid. I remember the disclaimer at the beginning stating it being based on true events, but I didn't get the joke till I got older.
I remember being so involved in this and the second movie that I would try to figure out the compound in the gas, the effects what trioxide actually means. Scared my grandmother when I was little. Hehehe
The first time I saw this as a kid, I walked out and couldn't finish it because of the sheer notion that theres no way to completely kill the zombies and that they were intelligent terrified me lmao
Fun fact: there's an alternate ending to the film where the nuke was successful at stopping the problem, pretty much killing a lot of people. The dirt that was in the area affected was gathered and stored in four railroad cars on an abandoned railroad somewhere.
Ok I remember the fist time I saw this, I absolutely loved this even being born in 2005 and having scarier and more realistic horrors. It's just the vibes it gives off and how different it is compared to horrors from today.
It’s funny how the two actors who accidentally exposed themselves to the chemical are also in Return Of The Living Dead 2 but play completely different characters.
One of my faves. Seen it as a kid and it blew my mind. Running, talking, hard to kill zombies. Also with a great soundtrack. The Tall Boys track is killer.
This is the best zombie movie of all time. Chilling and with a dark comedic value. One of the most memorable scenes was the female zombie saying "I can feel myself rot "
Great video! One of my favorites in my Zombie Library! It does have comedy bits but it always still seemed more serious to me. Enjoyed it AND this video!
@@etangbose4755 I wasn't saying the movie itsself isn't meant to be funny, just that we had a unique sense of humor and would laugh at moments no one else would
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"These things don't leak, do they?"
"Hell no! This was made by the US army, core of the engineers!"
*breaks*
Damn I love that scene!
Following by that iconic awesome theme song! Love that!
Irony...gotta love it
Guy was a former marine perhaps, word is they break everything.
The u.s. military/government can be incompetent in situations like this
@@yann2850_ i was a kernel in the marine core and i can tell you he's right
"I thought you said it would die if we destroy the brain!"
"It worked in the movie!"
"You mean the movie lied?!"
In some other zombie faction it didn't work there even a zombie mutated after it set on fire thus rapidly regenerated its flesh and harden it or a zombie that suddenly mutated some part of it flesh into bone for extra durability....or another one that suddenly grew like six arm and stated crawling like a spider. ........
"Not a bad question burt"
It's like tfp "aim for the head"
"What why"
"I have seen human horror films"
°_°
"AT DRIVE IN THEATERS"
An SCP keeter class threat
"I hit the fucking brain!"
Also a deep sense of tragedy. When the worker burns himself in the cremation chamber to avoid the pain of being permanently consciously dead. Pretty dark stuff.
And the music playing in the background. Little nuances make a huge difference.
That whole scene was conspired by the actor. Everything from sacrificing himself to pulling off his real life wedding ring to put on the lever.
Burn... Muuuhahahahaha... Now burn.... Burn the flame.....
-Roky Erickson
@Soloman Grundy Have you watched the movie since posting that? Are you now as sad as we all are?
Such a powerful scene ingenious improvisation of James Karen
Man slaps the machine,
"This bad boy can..."
The machine fails
"Oh, never mind."
Zombies don't usually scare me, but these ones really unnerve me.
Your name scares me
I think it's because they're really hard to kill
Me too. Maybe because they are still human in a way?
@@connarkent282 That and they're smart. Despite suffering from intense decay, their minds are as clear as they were in life. Next, they are in a state of constant agony and the only relief they can get is in your skull. They will do ANYTHING to make it stop.
@@Bluesit32 they also look way worse
Moral of the story don’t mess with mysterious military containers
Also call the number printed on the tanks so you're not held responsible if any substances in the tanks gets released.
Curiosity killed the cat...though this time it wasn't a cat....but like thousands of people....
Moral of the story, don't make zombie chemicals.
If humanity is looking for immortality u picked the right or wrong chemical
Lol
I've always thought this film was more terrifying than funny.
Its scary as hell
Terrifyingly funny.
Its a good combo of both
You always wonder if there’s a disease that can mimic the transformative process of trioxin
The tar man terrified me as a child
Return of the Living Dead terrified me as a kid because there was no winning against it. I actually love its concept that zombies were coherent and suffering in a way that compelled them to kill for brains.
I can't help but wonder, will we ever see this idea taken further?
I doubt we'll see it taken further in anything big budget. They got close in some of those Teen style movies though. Warm bodies, as bad a movie as it was, used the idea of the zombies having intelligence and a goal/reason for eating brains.
I feel as though we really do need a new movie with zombies like this that takes it further. Instead of the zombies becoming more human like they always seem to become more Monstrous.
Imagine how much better TWD would have been had the zombies been capable of mimicking or just capable speech. the room for the idea that there still is awareness in a zombie but inability or no desire to not eat people, while feeling everything from gunshots to their own flesh rotting away. Almost every "big scene" in the show gets 100x creepier.
There are some rather boring tv shows that use the idea, but they never take it in the right direction and always end up too teen drama.
sorry long post.
Actually, it was proven that they can be electrocuted to death.
it has really dark ending with the town getting nuked
@@HippobuttgodCrackerjack I want a reboot only based on this movie because these zombies are the most dangerous in this one
@@trebot9292266 Oh yeah, I remember Warm Bodies. Super Teen chick flick, I was actually surprised by some of the deeper depth it superficially played with.
When the paramedics turn on the headlights and there's zombies everywhere...scared the heck out of me as a kid
And the suicide cremation scene was hard for me too as a kid. Probably shouldn't have sneaked and watched it at 9 years old lol
I always got a kick out of the names of the lifelong friends (the warehouse owner and the mortician):
Bert and Ernie
oh no bert theres a zombie in our house
STOP READING THAT BOOK AND HELP ME!
Lee Martinez yes...they were lifelong :ahem:....”friends”....
the two paramedics were Tom and Jerry
Come in, Dispatch. Send... more... paramedics.
Bert and ernie are gay
What's worse than a Zombie? a Person, cause you never know their true intentions and plan better way to kill you... but what's worse than a Person? an intelligent Zombie...
or ya know...a demon..
Its better to have a person as a enemy than a friend becuase you can atleast know who to watch out for.
And one you can't just kill by shooting them in the head.
@@dinocha0s
Or a Vergil... Ehh?
that's what my dad says, hes more scared of the living than the dead
Despite its dark humor, I consider "Return of the Living Dead" to be the scariest zombie film ever made. The zombies invincibility, speed, speech, and intelligence make them such a terrifying presence. Tarman gave me countless nightmares as a kid.
And they look gnarly AF. All rotten and gross. It’s truly DEATH.
8:41 Nearly all flesh is rotten, but he still has a healthy pink tongue xD
Don't forget that a skeleton still had eyeballs XD
He obv brushed/brushes his teeth for 2 minutes every day
"Leak? These things were made by the US Army Corps of Engineers!"
I'm an Army combat engineer and I find this hilarious!
You’re reserves ain’t cha
Sort of like "military grade" seems to give people a sense of superior quality and gives us Vets a sense of dread because it was built by the lowest bidder.
Hilarious how bones can move without muscles 😂😂😂
Oh yeah like that’s the only thing scientifically wrong
Not ta mention tendons // ligaments
That’s literally the thing that bugs me the most about Zombie movies in general.
No heartbeat, no muscle movement.
@Soloman Grundy I mean there’s connective tissue, obviously, else it’d just fall all to pieces the second it came out of the ground, so maybe that’s how it’s moving? Like how necromorphs from dead space use essentially useless flesh like organs and such to add on more musculature, maybe the trioxen mutated the connective tissue into something like a living creature all on its own, able to move the whole thing like a line of ants moving in unison with each other to take down an obstacle.
I don’t know, I’m not a fuckin’ doctor. I am a lore master though
It’s also crazy that dead people come back and eat people 😂
You get a thumbs up for pronouncing the “2,4,5 Tri” chemical compound so well!
Literally one of the most terrifying virus, it so deadly not even a headshot or dismemberment could stop them. This is why we need elemental weapons now.
Captain Awesome Still it's scary AF.
It's also a movie
lmao
Get those Origins staffs. Ill take the Ice Staff.
I mean, burning the bodies would just spread the chemical more.
Saw this as a kid with my father and it had me shook up because it was no way to kill them and everyone died at the end!
Bill Clinton Oh hell yes. I saw it when I was about 7 or 8 and it scared the shit out of me for those same reasons (particularly Tar Man). But as time went on, this movie took on kind of a mythical place in my mind. When I was a teen, I started chasing that same level of fear I had watching RotLD as a child but of course could never reach that same level once I was older. I think that is what set me up on a lifelong obsession with horror, though.
You did not have sexual relations with that woman
@@shadowbrosstudios yes he did
Head shots didnt kill them ?
@@12frenchy1 Nope. Only way to kill these zombies is with intense heat.
Wow, now I just realized why the cadaver in the freezer only attack Burt when they free him... Burt is the only one alive in the building
Honestly, I had never put 2 and 2 together until you mentioned it.
What I want to know now is how it knew that immediately. Do these zombies have the ability to identify other zombies? How can they do that? This is why I love this movie, it's full of interesting stuff like this to think about.
X. X.
I think the Trixie-infected zombies can spot non-zombies from the smell of their brains.
This is just from memory... but around the final scene in the movie - while Tina has locked herself in the attic above the mortician’s room, I’m pretty sure Freddy says something about being able to smell her brains as he’s trying to get her to let him in the room.
It's a good point, but Freddy and Frank weren't actually dead yet, hence all the coughing and vomiting. The cadaver attacked Burt because he was directly in it's line of sight
@@Neon_Ghost1 - Ya, it makes sense that as soon as they woke up they were essentially dead at that point, and if their pulse was checked it might confirm that. What I don't get is how they turned into zombies in the sequel. They hardly had any exposure to the gas.
Wait, horror comedy? I thought this was just a normal 80's horror film
It actually has a pretty good amount of dark comedy in it. Not in-your-face or slap-stick like the bullshit sequel but there are definitely some funny parts. Probably the best zombie movie out there. If you haven't seen it, I highly, highly recommend it.
Horror comedies used to be made so well that you couldn't tell where the horror aspect ended and the comedy began.
This is a scary film for those that may never have seen this or little kids. I watched when I was 3 or 4. The only thing that scared me was when seeing all the zombies running around and when Tarman says Brains (especially in the second film). I didn't realize it was a comedy until I was about 15. So teenagers and young adults would find it a kick. Lol
horror comedy and a normal 80's horror film are the same thing... just remember Fright Night
Scariest zombies around
Pdrew the flood from halo lmao
Devin Otero not as scary, they can die
Brody Miller lmao youre a joke
crossed is the most fucked up virus in comics you will ever have the pleasure to see
@Mihail Golubovic lmao who is worse than the flood
It’s made buy the army. So it’s built from scrap metal and duct tape
Marcus Zyker By*
Lowest bidder got the contract.
Nah that's marines mate
They should have used flex tape.
GOLD scrap metal and titanium duct tape, worth 50,000,000 dollars a barrel. high tech stuff.
This is one of the first horror movies I saw, as a child, with my dad, and still one of my favorites. We rented this and Evil Dead while living out in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Suffice to say they terrified me at the time, but I grew to love them every year and couldn't and can't stop watching them to this day. Nice video!
Thanks Michael, the same thing happened to me here in Australia with ALiens. I watched it with my dad in Perth as a 7 year old and suffice to say, I couldnt sleep for a few night lol oddly enough, I still watched it every year without fail :)
Magical combo, both movies are great although living in the boondocks Id imagine both movies would make me feel uneasy
Michael Buchko Same here... watched with my dad on a rainy night in Los Angeles... absolutely terrified me as a child
Love those movies, could've been a great double feature. Evil Dead perfectly terrifies the audience with demons possessing humans taking over humanity and is unnerving, RotLD explores an existential threat of never dying. Excellent childhood movies.
This is one of the best movies ever made, and perhaps the best zombie movie ever. The 1985 movie Life Force is also a masterpiece, but with alien vampires that turned people into zombies.
Despite what I heard I found life force to be a fun movie with surprisingly good effects.
James Karen and Clu Gulager are phenomenal in this film. Those two knew their craft and were so much fun to watch!
Now this one. This virus is just downright terryfing .its among the most terryfing viruses imo along with necromorph,t virus and corsyceps.
Yeh its practically unstoppable once released!
FilmComicsExplained exactly. I can handle dumb zombies or fast zombies. But fast and INTELIIGENT ZOMBIES.thats the ultimate nightmare imo
it is a gas, not a virus based on a herbicide. don't know why this is being called a "virus".
Yeh I made it pretty clear in the video that its a gas, but the video is apart of an overall VIRUS playlist - hence the virus in the title.
fair enough. not necessarily complaining. Great video either way. :)
My mother and I watched this movie religiously thank you so much for this video!!!!!
no worries ethan :)
The scene where the paramedic turns on his headlight to a gang of corpses was horrifying to see as a kid and even now as a grown man I still think that's what I'd see at night when the lights come up 😂
blair wells OMG I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!! No joke, I’m 28 and still picture the large group of zombies waiting when I turn my headlights on lmao
I can do that if u like
Mr Happy do what?!
Justitia Nomen it’s ok, all good, don’t leave your high beams on ok, we don’t like that
There was another movie that did that too called The Dead I think it took place in Africa. Those eyes though
This was the film that got me started with the zombie genre.
At the age of 10 I rented this movie at my local video store.
If you are wondering how a person of that age was allowed to rent this movie, let's just say the times where different.
I was also able to purchase cigarettes for my mother without any problems, again the times were different.
@johnwaynemanson3926 Times aren't necessarily better due to so many restrictions all around, but some are for the best.
It’s incredible the job they did on this film. These actors are amazing. Not like that anymore. Just incredible.
Classic-era zombies that prefers brains before flesh
seriously. this was the first time brains were the zombies target
The joke is not lost on the rest of us, Troll Man.
*only time actually
Troll Man actually Romero and Lucio Fulci had flesh eating zombies out before the brain munchers where thought up.
I wish this could happen in real life and take away trump. I wonder what he might look like ass a ass a zombie.
Never a bad day when I see the Tar Man in my sub box.
I know right!
More brains !
The exact opposite of my sentiments. That face is horrifying.
These are some horrifying zombies.
It's a standing testament to the ongoing debate of practical vs CG effects. My opinion is that practical wins out almost every time. I imagine when they eventually remake this movie (you know it's coming they've been remaking everything from the 80's/90s/early 2000's) that CG will be inevitably used because it seems they've grown too dependent on it and no longer use practical effects.
@@Dragonking1984 I think a mix of practical effects and CGI should be used. When both are utilized tactfully, they provide fantastic results. I think Jurassic Park is the best example of an appropriate balance between CGI and practical effects.
@@Dragonking1984 and that's a damn shame. I love old school effects!
@@thescarecrowman I agree if you're going to use CG use it as a complementary enhancement for practical. The prob is Like i have said once they seen how much easier it is to green screen things and knowing how much work goes into practical (more then CGI) the path of a lazy lack luster future of CGI spoogefests (looking at you star wars movies) was made clear. And they haven't looked back.
What was the movie?
The scariest thing about this movie, was that being dead didn't mean you would rest, but that you would feel pain at being dead.
Oh, no, no. They were resting just fine. The Trioxin 245 jump started their nervous system, giving them this cruel semblance of life.
Zombie: Send more cops
Dispatch: Well you heard em boys! Lets send everyone we got!
Is literally how I imagine that went
They pretty much did especially the police road block that took the cake
Send more paramedics!
Send more cops!
+Vicent Serrano:
Cops? Get them!
My sister Fucking loves that scene.
Send more...
*looks at *
Actually don’t send more politicians...
EAT THAT BRAIN
Holy hell my request got made! Thank you so much!
Yerp! lol you're welcome buddy!
*Slaps Barrel
This bad boy can fit so many zombies in it.
In Germany the movie is called "verdammt die Zombies kommen" ="damn the zombies are coming". And he was banned until 2011 here.
But it looks really cool, thanks. I will watch it.
Der war nicht verboten, sondern zensiert. Hab ihn 1988 auf VHS gesehen...
@Juan Sanchez Apparently it was more explicit in the older drafts of the script, but they decided to tone it down to just hints like his gun and choice of music.
Trash's dance in the graveyard certain caught my attention when I first watched it!
Imagine my disappointment when listening to the commentary on the DVD I find out she's wearing a mirkin. They used flesh colored latex to cover up Linnea Quigley's naughty bits.
@@EarthAltar Godamnit now I’m disappointed as well.
@@spacetofu19 Didn't stop my girlfriend and I from rushing home after the movie to shave her naughty bits back in the day. Lol.
The tar man is probably the only thing that I found truly terrifying
Panzer Raven Fucker STILL gives me the creeps to this day... It's those eyes, man.
Trash after turning into a zombie and biting that homeless dude was pretty scary.
@@soakedbearrd that's the part that always got me. She opens her mouth a foot wide!
How about the confederate soldier zombie who knew what cops are and how to operate a cb radio?
Yeah he's so black and slimy and his eyes creepes me the fuck out
And who can forget Liana Quigley. Simply amazing. God I wish people could still rise to this level of stunning quality in their work.
Ikr
She was beyond beautiful. Her and Elvira, Annie Lennox, and a few others are responsible for my preference in women.
Thanks for covering this I love this movie I remember watching it as a kid and thinking to my self “wouldn’t that be some crazy shit if that actually happens”
There should be a prequel titled Rise of the Living dead that explains how Tarman ended up in the canister in the first place?
Yessss!!!!!
Silver Fox The zombies were put in tanks from the hospital, which means the zombies were actual people that rose from the morgue, before being “killed” and put in the trioxin tanks.
@SgtBaker16 I think the second and third movies expand on this. Trioxin zombies are largely indestructible, yes, but they can be disabled with a kind of taser weapon and 'incapacitated' for an amount of time (it's how the army clears up the outbreak at the end of the 2nd and 3rd movies), so they seem to be weak to electrical disruption/stunning.
They probably discovered this by accident during the initial outbreak, then shocked the hell out of the bodies and stuffed them into the drums.
I wish to see a prequel of this movie, just the story in the beginning is creepy.
I am currently writing a prequel with that exact name but it was originally a super villain but I scrapped it and thought rotld needed a prequel
The fact that the zombies eat human brains to briefly avoid eternal pain is horrifying and to date the scene that reveals this fact is one of the most chilling I have ever seen. It's the closest thing I can imagine to hell on earth.
Nobody really realizes this, but these are the most powerful zombies ever.
Invincible zombies: * *EXISTS* *
The Witcher: "Ah great, here we go again.."
In 1985, I was glued to my VCR watching this masterpiece. The horror of the zombies was only matched by the Army's willingness to nuke civilians. What an ending! Only after I saw it again in the 90's did I realize the humor in this gem. Dan O'Bannon was a great storyteller. This is a must-watch classic for any student of horror films
This soundtrack changed my life. Long live Punk Rockers and Zombies
This movie was the introduction of the "track star" zombie. Add the facts that they are intelligent and unkillable makes them the most dangerous zombies in history.
Of
All
Time
Logan Waltz Doesn’t that just make them better? They’re still always there, its just that there’s so much more panic and fear and bewilderment when they’re fast.
Yeah. Resident evil zombies are a close second (mutations atleast), but atleast those ones *are* killable if you try hard enough-
@Logan Waltz Oh, they're not unkillable. They just never found the right method. In the sequel, it's discovered that electrocution ends them permanently. Their nerves fry. Trioxin is a nerve agent, you see.
Another thing is that these zombies feel pain, allowing you to hurt them. It needs to be incredibly brutal (like powerful acid directly in the face and eyes), but it can send them reeling, thrashing around in pain.
All that aside, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. How does their speed, durability and intelligence negate the fact there is no place safe and they are always there?
Actually not true, 1974's Garden of the Dead had running zombies first
This movie terrified me. I was 12 and had to walk home alone after watching it. I'm a horror nut, but this still gives me the creeps? 😂 lol.
"Hey these things don't leak do they?"
Leak?! These things were made by the Army Corps of Engineers."
*smacks container*
*container breaks*
Very Realistic.
Hey these levees outside New Orleans don't leak right?
*Army Corp of engineers has left chat
And here we are.
thats a lot of damage
One of the best scary movies of the 80's ! So graphic without the cg's, they don't make movies like this anymore.
1. Tarman was scary & made your heart race getting so close to eating Tina
2. The girl dancing naked in the cemetery was funny
3. Freddy creeped me out, especially after he found them in the loft at the end
4. The ending was good, since the whole disaster started over again
I always wondered, since Freddy and Frank had breathed the gas in the beginning of the movie and caused Freddy to turn (Frank didn't because he cremated himself before he could), if you were walking around with an open wound and that rain that contained that gas, would you also slowly turn into a zombie like Freddy did?
Yes
Actually Frank did turn if you watch as they are screaming in pain in the chapel Frank succumbs to the 245 trioxin just like Freddy
@@paulysmallz8095Wrong, only direct exposure to the gas causes infection, aside from that you need to first be dead and then resurrected to become a zombie.
Just having it fall on you isn't enough, this is due to it being diluted in the clouds, that's why for example the nukes would 100% work as any moisture would be evaporated past the point of rain being possible.
I must have watched ROTLD 20x in the mid-80's as a young kid. Great movie. Traumatizing
"How do you kill something, if its already dead"
Woodchipper.
"It's not a bad question, Bert!"
Flamethrower or Nuke it. That or hit it Really, Really, REALLY HARD.
@@WindyREDPanda they do nuke them at the end of the movie but that just spreads the toxin through the rain...
@@TheAverageProgram Yup the best way was too electricity electrocute them like part 2 but in part 3 they froze them with that gun and in part 4 and 5 head shots work.
This movie scared the shit out of me when i was younger because i had never seen make up effects like this, and the zombies were unstoppable. Didnt they all die in the end and the town was a complete loss?
Sam here!
Town was hit with a Nuclear artillery shell.
Yeah man, tar man was horrifying! I had nightmares after watching this in the 80's as a child.
Billo1281 I still have nightmares watching it today
lamarco18 At the end you hear the General speaking saying the next town over is complaining about acid raid
God, this movie scared the living piss out of me when I was a kid. I remember the disclaimer at the beginning stating it being based on true events, but I didn't get the joke till I got older.
I remember being so involved in this and the second movie that I would try to figure out the compound in the gas, the effects what trioxide actually means. Scared my grandmother when I was little. Hehehe
This is my absolute favorite movie of all time...a perfect film. A better film about zombies is yet to be made, in my opinion.
100% agree with you!!!
The first time I saw this as a kid, I walked out and couldn't finish it because of the sheer notion that theres no way to completely kill the zombies and that they were intelligent terrified me lmao
Love the movie. Probably my favorite zombie movie.
Its soo GooD!
scottieman2 Literally tops the most scariest zombie movie of all time.
Mine too
I was majorly in love with Trash.
Yes she was hot & sexy as hell
Bird Bones Me too but I was more into Tina, played by Beverly Randolph.
Return of the living dead had the most kick ass opening. Especially the music.
Love that old horror classics!!! For this time when they were made, the effects are very good!!
Fun fact: there's an alternate ending to the film where the nuke was successful at stopping the problem, pretty much killing a lot of people. The dirt that was in the area affected was gathered and stored in four railroad cars on an abandoned railroad somewhere.
I SAW it, I NERD IT ALL OVER THE FLOOR. . . . . . !!!
Thank you!!!!!
Tarman was one of my greatest fears when i was a child. I was always afraid to go down into the basement because of him.
I am so f****** happy you did this. Return of the living dead is my all time fav movie.
I watched Return of the Living Dead series...
But I never knew why it all started in the first place.
I had forgotten how creepy this movie was.
I still remember the dog cut in half from the basement getting reanimated...
Ok I remember the fist time I saw this, I absolutely loved this even being born in 2005 and having scarier and more realistic horrors. It's just the vibes it gives off and how different it is compared to horrors from today.
It’s funny how the two actors who accidentally exposed themselves to the chemical are also in Return Of The Living Dead 2 but play completely different characters.
This movie tried to warn us its Corona Virus
Think about it....
COVID 19 people dont realize they carry it and may pass it to others smh like a zombie the walking dead
And suffer the exact same fate. One of them even mentions how this is all familiar.
This was my absolute favorite of the living dead series
"This bad boy can fit so much effing gas in it."
*Slaps drum*
*Dies*
One of my favorite movies. Seen it hundreds of times!
literally my favorite movie thanks for covering it
no worries Jason!
One of my faves. Seen it as a kid and it blew my mind. Running, talking, hard to kill zombies. Also with a great soundtrack. The Tall Boys track is killer.
FRANK AND FREDDY died instantly. gas killed them. then their bodies slowly died as well.
Nah. It was a slow process. Their bodies winding down like an old fashion watch in need of winding. It just got worse from there.
these are the most dangerous zombies in my opinion
Eyes, too.
Oh wow this was one of the first horror movies I ever saw. Scared the crap out of me at the time lol
“I’ll open the door...you brain him with the axe!”-Is still one of the funniest lines in film history!
Haha woke up randomly wanting to see it again. Found out it was on Pluto with ads. Watched and was happy it holds up to this day
From 4 to 12 years old, I watched this movie 100 times. In my top 10 fav rewatchable movies
Could you cover the Vampires/Zombies in Stake Land?
yeh I liked that movie Matt! Adding it to the list now :)
FilmComicsExplained For a film with a budget of 625,000 dollars. It was a truly amazing film.
I didnt know that! and yeh you are right that is impressive :)
I agree you do a video on stakeland and night of the living dead and other video's about vampire's and zombie's
Stake Land was so good! And i did not know either that it was so cheap! Wow!
This channel is dope freshness, earned a new sub my friend
Awesome dude! welcome aboard!!
Watched as a kid..scared the shit outta me. Watched as an adult...Entertains the shit outta me.
This is the best zombie movie of all time. Chilling and with a dark comedic value. One of the most memorable scenes was the female zombie saying "I can feel myself rot "
So glad you did this movie.
Yes, another video! Thank you!
Can you do the supernatural virus from R.E.C
Great video! One of my favorites in my Zombie Library! It does have comedy bits but it always still seemed more serious to me. Enjoyed it AND this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watched this on a weekly basis in the 80s along with Dawn of the dead best Zombie films ever!!!!
3:12 that's one good looking tongue for a corps 😂
This film made me and my brothers laugh till we cried. We always laughed at things that weren't exactly meant to be funny
This Movie is a straight up comedy it’s completely meant to be intentionally funny
@@etangbose4755 I wasn't saying the movie itsself isn't meant to be funny, just that we had a unique sense of humor and would laugh at moments no one else would
"The pain of being dead"......that's deep
The special effects were really cool and scared the crap outta me when I was a kid back in 86 or 87 when I first saw it..
saw this movie as a kid! loving revisiting all these movies. watching the explained version is way quicker but still gives the nostalgia.
One of my favorite movies ever, EVER.