Hold on to your headstones, because The Return of the Living Dead (1985) is the Greatest Movie EVER! Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featuring Jeremy Kaufmann of Violence Mars.
Review in a Nutshell: A low-budget horror-comedy with a punk rock soundtrack, The Return of the Living Dead (1985) is both intensely political and acerbically satirical. “Send more cops.”
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