One of my tragic flaws is that I am consistently late to the party when it comes to cool stuff. (Seriously.) So I never saw “Return of the Living Dead” (1985) in the 80’s. I saw it around … 1993 or 1994, I guess, on VHS tape in the Mary Washington College dorm room of Rhett Carlson and Nickolai Butkevich.
I truly enjoyed it, which is unusual for a horror-comedy. (Movies can either scare me or make me laugh, but they can rarely do both.) Yes, I am one of the people out there who finds “Return of the Living Dead” genuinely creepy. C’mon … it’s got decent makeup effects — and both the “Tarman” zombie and the slab woman, for example, are pretty well executed monsters.
Hey … there’s a remake due out this Christmas. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if it’s any good.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 