Return of the Living Dead Movie Review

Starring: James Karen, Don Calfa, Clu Gulagher

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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!
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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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