Return of the Living Dead III
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| German title | Return of the Living Dead III | ||
| Original title | Return of the Living Dead 3 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1993 | ||
| length | 92 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Brian Yuzna | ||
| script | John Penney | ||
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Gary Schmoeller , Brian Yuzna |
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| music | Barry Goldberg | ||
| camera | Gerry Lively | ||
| cut | Christopher Roth | ||
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Return of the Living Dead III is a 1993 American horror film directed by Brian Yuzna .
The staging is after Dan O'Bannons Damn, the Zombies are coming (Original title: The Return of the Living Dead , 1985) and Toll drive the wild Zombies (Original title: Return of the Living Dead Part II , 1989) directed by Ken Wiederhorn is the third part of a five-part zombie film series . The film was indexed from 1994 to July 2019. After a re-examination by the FSK, the unabridged version was released from the age of 16.
action
In the 1960s, the US Army experimented with a highly volatile and dangerous warfare agent called 2-4-5 trioxin during the so-called marijuana war . The gaseous substance resurrects the dead and mutates them into an extremely resilient species - with fatal consequences. Since you can neither fight nor destroy the awakened creatures, they are rounded up against their will and forced into barrels.
In the present, the top-secret military project is being resumed under the direction of Science Officer Colonel John Reynolds. The goal is to create indestructible bio-units to revolutionize warfare in the long term. With a team of scientists and two high-ranking officers, a dead man is resuscitated with trioxin, but something goes wrong and the undead mutated into a zombie causes a bloodbath among the scientists. The abstruse military attempt is secretly observed by two curious teenagers, Julie and her friend Curt, the son of the head of research. The daring experiment fails, a catastrophe can fortunately be averted and the responsible head of the project Colonel Reynolds is demoted and transferred to Oklahoma City .
In the evening there is a quarrel between father and son because the rebellious ancestral owner refuses to follow his widowed father to the new city. Curt decides to live in peace with Julie and to run away. On the way out of town, he loses control of his motorcycle, and there is a serious accident in which Julie dies. Robbed of his beloved companion, he desperately sneaks into the military base to reanimate Julie's lifeless body in his father's laboratory. The experiment succeeds, and thanks to her strong bond with Curt, the unsuspecting lover wakes up not as a zombie beast, but rather as a tragic undead. The reunited couple fled, followed by alarmed special security forces. Colonel Reynolds also goes to look for his son with a few loyal men.
On her odyssey, Julie suddenly complains of a mysterious, insatiable hunger. The beauty finally discovers her lust for flesh and blood in a nearby supermarket when events precipitate and she bites a male member of a four-man Latino gang, Mogo. The gang members swear revenge and follow - like the military - the couple into the sewers . The stunned Curt now realizes that his queen of hearts is developing cannibalistic traits. For Julie, however, the condition is intolerable, and she tries to end her existence with an unsuccessful suicide , as she can only satisfy her emerging desire for human flesh for a short time through self-mutilation and pain. Meanwhile, they meet the dark-skinned vagabond Riverman, who gives them refuge in the underworld. After a short break, the trio is caught by the many pursuers. First they are harassed by the street gang around their leader Santos, the infected Mogo, Felipe and Alicia. Julie now seems to lose control of herself and kills two of the attackers, while Mogo, who mutates into a zombie, infects Alicia, who also turns into a bloodthirsty monster. In dire straits, Julie kills the merciful Riverman before crying for help from Curt. Just at this moment, the rescuing Colonel approaches with a special unit and kills all the zombies present, while Julie goes to the ground motionless.
At the end of the film, the cooperative Curt is summoned for an interrogation that has no consequences for him or his father. When asked what happened to Julie, however, he received an unsatisfactory answer, so that he inspected the research facility on his own. He will witness how the creatures are dismembered and kept in inhumane conditions in the name of science. Soon after, he discovered the crying Julie, the new "miracle weapon" advertised by scientists. Curt frees his girlfriend and inevitably triggers a disaster that ends in an end-of-time scenario. Almost all people are killed by captured zombies. The entire base is locked and the meanwhile bitten, doomed Curt jumps with his Julie towards death by flames. The two choose to commit suicide in the facility's crematorium .
Awards
- Fantastic'Arts Film Festival in Gérardmer
- 1994: Winner of the audience award
- 1994: Winner of the Silver Scream Award for Brian Yuzna
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "hard-nosed horror film that, with relevant effects, was headed for a blood-soaked finale" .
Web links
- Return of the Living Dead III in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Return of the Living Dead III in the online movie database
- Return of the Living Dead III at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 18 Video - FSK 18 DVD , R-Rated - Unrated of Return of the Living Dead 3 at Schnittberichte.com