INTRO
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This week on FilmSack, we punk, puke, and party our way through The Return of the Living Dead (1985) — the movie that asks: what if zombies could talk, run, and had a serious case of the munchies… for BRAINS? It’s a horror-comedy so 80s it bleeds neon, featuring punks, paramedics, and one very naked Linnea Quigley doing interpretive graveyard dance art while the dead rise for an encore.
Anywho, picture it — you’re working your first day at a medical supply warehouse when your boss decides to show off some top-secret Army chemical barrels labeled “Do Not Open.” You crack one, obviously, and next thing you know, corpses are coughing, skeletons are grooving, and the phones are dead because you melted the switchboard with trioxin gas. But don’t worry… help is on the way. Oh wait — they’re just more people to eat.
Randy, if you ever wheel a split dog past me and say “it’s still twitching,” I’m putting in my two weeks right then and there.
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BRIEF
When a pair of warehouse workers accidentally release a deadly gas that reanimates the dead, chaos erupts in small-town Kentucky. As corpses crawl from graves and zombies demand “BRAINS!” a ragtag group of punks, morticians, and employees must fight to survive the night. Spoiler: nobody’s making it to Monday.
1985 | Rated R | Horror / Comedy | 1h 31m
LINKS
IMDB: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Wikipedia: Return of the Living Dead Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TV Tropes: TV Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]
TRAILER / CLIPS
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) – When your first day on the job turns into the end of the world… just say “send more paramedics.” #BRAINS #FilmSack
Alt: Punk’s not dead. But he’s definitely undead. #TrioxinTuesday
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SHOW NOTES
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- That opening crawl: “This is a true story” — sure, Jan.
- Freddy’s first day on the job — nothing could possibly go wrong.
- Frank: “Let me show you something neat!” Famous last words.
- The half-dog is still moving. It’s fine. It’s science.
- The cadaver closet jump scare gets me every time.
- Trioxin gas: for when you need your corpses extra fresh.
- Meanwhile, in punk world — the most aggressively 80s van crew in film history.
- Linnea Quigley’s dance of the dead… a cinematic event.
- “Send more paramedics” – the best zombie punchline ever written.
- Every solution just creates more screaming corpses.
- The tar man zombie deserves an Oscar and a shower.
- Brains are apparently the ultimate painkiller.
- Ernie the mortician: unbothered, unflappable, possibly ex-Nazi?
- The rain scene — perfect blend of chaos, fear, and wet punks.
- That ending: bold move, calling the military… and nuking Kentucky.
- Randy, if the Army ever says “containment successful,” duck.
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