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The Return of the Living Dead

Index The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American horror comedy film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon, and starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa. [1]

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Acid rain

Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).

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Allan Trautman

Allan Trautman (born May 25, 1955) is an American actor and puppeteer.

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Bart Simpson

Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional character in the American animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Cathleen Cordell

Cathleen Cordell (May 21, 1915 – August 19, 1997) was an American film and television actress.

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Children of the Living Dead

Children of the Living Dead is a 2001 American direct-to-video zombie film written by Karen L. Wolf, directed by Tor Ramsey, and executive produced by John A. Russo.

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Clu Gulager

William Martin "Clu" Gulager (born November 16, 1928), is an American television and film actor and director.

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Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi or Zombie) is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero.

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Deathrock

Deathrock is a rock music subgenre incorporating horror elements and gothic theatrics.

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Don Calfa

Donald George Calfa (December 3, 1939 – December 1, 2016) was an American film and television character actor whose credits spanned over 40 years, playing both comedic and dramatic roles.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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Hemdale Film Corporation

Hemdale Film Corporation, known as Hemdale Communications after 1993, was an independent British-American film production company and distributor founded in London in 1967 as the Hemdale Company by actor David Hemmings and John Daly.

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Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

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James Karen

James Karen (born Jacob Karnofsky; November 28, 1923) is an American character actor of Broadway, film and television.

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Jewel Shepard

Jewel Shepard is an American writer, photographer, and actress, best known for her roles in movies such as Party Camp (1987) and Return of the Living Dead (1985).

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Jim Henson

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets.

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John A. Russo

John A. Russo (born February 2, 1939), sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American screenwriter and film director most commonly associated with the 1968 horror classic film Night of the Living Dead.

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John Durbin

John Durbin (born John Jackson in Council Bluffs, Iowa) is an actor.

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John Philbin

John Philbin (born April 27, 1960) is an American actor who is best known for his appearances in the films Return of the Living Dead, Point Break and Tombstone.

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Jonathan Terry

Jonathan Terry is a television and film actor.

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Kenny McCormick

Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick is a main character in the animated adult television series South Park, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman.

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Kensington Books

Kensington Publishing Corp. is a New York-based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Lifeforce (film)

Lifeforce is a 1985 British science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, based on Colin Wilson's 1976 novel The Space Vampires.

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Linnea Quigley

Linnea Barbara Quigley (born May 27, 1958) is an American actress, film producer, model, singer, and author.

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Lisa Davis (actress)

Lisa Davis (born 20 April 1936), also known as Lisa Davis Waltz, is an English and American former child and adult actress who appeared in her first role at the age of 13 in the film The Man from Yesterday (1949).

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Lisa Simpson

Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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List of recurring The Simpsons characters

The Simpsons includes a large array of supporting characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, fictional characters within the show, and even animals.

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Little Big Mom

"Little Big Mom" is the tenth episode of the eleventh season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Mark Venturini

Mark D. Venturini (January 10, 1961 – February 14, 1996) was an American actor who starred in movies and television.

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Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Miguel A. Núñez Jr. (born August 11, 1964) is an American actor and comedian.

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Ned Flanders

Nedward "Ned" Flanders Jr., usually referred to as Flanders, is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by John Russo, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Night of the Living Homeless

"Night of the Living Homeless" is episode 1107 (#160) of Comedy Central's South Park.

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Norbert Schultze

Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze (26 January 1911 in Brunswick – 14 October 2002 in Bad Tolz) was a prolific German composer of film music.

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Nuclear artillery

Nuclear artillery is a subset of limited-yield tactical nuclear weapons, in particular those weapons that are launched from the ground at battlefield targets.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s.

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Partytime (song)

"Partytime" is a song by 45 Grave, released as the B-side to the "School's Out" single in 1984.

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Pinkeye (South Park)

"Pinkeye" is the seventh episode in the first season of the American animated television series South Park.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Principal Skinner

Principal W. Seymour Skinner (born Armin Tamzarian) is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Puppeteer

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object that might be shaped like a human, animal or mythical creature, or another object to create the illusion that the puppet is "alive".

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Return of the Living Dead (film series)

Return of the Living Dead is a zombie film series of five films beginning with the 1985 film The Return of the Living Dead.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roky Erickson

Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (born July 15, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist from Texas.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Russell Streiner

Russell Streiner (born February 6, 1940), also credited as Russ Streiner and Russell W. Streiner, is an American film producer and actor.

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Saturn Award

The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; it was initially created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror on film, but has since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as on television and home media releases.

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Saturn Award for Best Actor

The Saturn Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video.

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Saturn Award for Best Director

The Saturn Award for Best Director (or Saturn Award for Best Direction) is one of the annual awards given by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

The Saturn Award for Best Horror Film is an award presented to the best film in the horror genre by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Make-up

The Saturn Award for Best Make-up is one of the annual awards given by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Special edition

The terms special edition, limited edition, and variants such as deluxe edition, or collector's edition, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints, video games or recorded music and films, but now including clothing, cars, fine wine, and whisky, among other products.

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Splatter film

A splatter film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

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SSQ (band)

SSQ (formerly Q) was a 1980s synthpop outfit consisting of Stacey Swain, Jon St. James, Dan Van Patten and John Van Tongeren.

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Stephen Holden

Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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T.S.O.L.

T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California.

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The Cramps

The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.

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The Damned (band)

The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies.

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The F.U.'s

The F.U.'s formed in late 1981 as a three piece Boston hardcore punk band.

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The Flesh Eaters

The Flesh Eaters are an American punk rock and Rockabilly band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1977.

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The Muppets

The Muppets are an ensemble cast of puppet characters known for their self-aware, burlesque, and meta-referential style of variety-sketch comedy.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Thom Mathews

Thomas "Thom" Mathews (born November 28, 1958) is an American actor who is best known for his roles as Freddy in The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and Tommy Jarvis in the ''Friday the 13th'' franchise (1986; 2017).

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the horror genre.

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Tony Gardner (designer)

Tony Gardner (born in September 25, 1965, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American makeup and special effects designer.

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Treehouse of Horror III

"Treehouse of Horror III" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' fourth season.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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45 Grave

45 Grave are an American deathrock and punk rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Living_Dead

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