Damn it, the zombies are coming

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Movie
German title Damn it, the zombies are coming
Original title The Return of the Living Dead
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Dan O'Bannon
script Dan O'Bannon
Rudy Ricci
John A. Russo
Russell Streiner
production Tom Fox
music Matt Clifford
camera Jules Brenner
cut Robert Gordon
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Damn, the zombies are coming (Original title: The Return of the Living Dead ) is a zombie comedy by screenwriter Dan O'Bannon from 1985. The film is based on a novel by John Russo . This drew with George A. Romero even for the script and the cut to Night of the Living Dead ( Night of the Living Dead ) responsible. O'Bannon's film also makes reference to Romero's classic from 1967. So far, four sequels of O'Bannon's zombie comedy have been produced.

action

Frank and Freddy, two employees of a medical mail order company , burst an army barrel that contains not only a zombie , but also the chemical 2,4,5-trioxin, which is responsible for the condition of the undead creature . The two employees breathe in the substance and are now in their turn put into the state of a living dead.

The escaping gas brings a corpse to life in the refrigerated chamber of the mail order company and Frank and Freddy discover that it doesn't work like in the zombie movie to remove the undead, as the older warehouse manager described from the movie The Night of the Living Dead : It's not enough from just destroying the zombie's brain. Even when they saw him into small pieces, he still struggles. You can think of nothing better than to burn the pieces in the neighboring crematorium with the help of the undertaker Ernie Kaltenbrunner. During the cremation a storm is brewing, and the rain spread the ashes at the local cemetery, where a punk - Clique cheerfully.

The ash-water mixture brings the dead back to life. Meanwhile, the two unsuspecting employees are getting worse and worse. The paramedics summoned are at a loss because they cannot detect a pulse in both of them and their temperature has dropped to room temperature. When they go to fetch carriers, they are attacked and killed by zombies. The punks flee the living dead in a panic, and some of them are hiding in the crematorium.

Attempts by those trapped in the crematorium to call the police fail because all of the telephones suddenly fail for inexplicable reasons. So they have no choice but to barricade themselves there. After a subsequent second ambulance crew was also killed, a police patrol sets out to investigate what happened. Immediately after their arrival, the police officers, like the paramedics before, are transformed by zombies into their own kind. One of the zombie policemen reports to headquarters and orders "more cops". Meanwhile, the two employees are getting worse and worse; the rigor mortis is getting stronger.

Two other trapped people, the director of the mail order company Burt Wilson and the punk Spider, try to escape through the back exit. They even make it to the police car, but the original plan to pick up the others is thwarted by the zombies. Any attempt to get out of the neighborhood also fails and they end up in the medical mail order company. The requested "cops" are weighed to be safe by one of the two killed and thus infected police officers until they too can be eaten. The area is then cordoned off with roadblocks.

In the crematorium, Freddy turns into an undead for good and drives Ernie and his "girlfriend" Tina to the attic. Frank, on the other hand, “commits suicide” by cremating himself. The director and the last three survivors of the punk clique break into the basement of the mail order company (the zombie who is there is eliminated). From there they call the police and see how the roadblocks are overrun. But the rescue suddenly seems within reach: a telephone number for emergencies is printed on the zombie barrels. The colonel on the other end asks the director and reassures him by saying that there is an emergency plan for exactly this case.

Then the officer orders a nuclear projectile to be fired at the neighborhood in order to destroy all infected people. The Colonel reported that the fires caused by the explosion would be extinguished in a short time by a thunderstorm. The credits only suggest that burning may not have been the best solution to the problem after all.

criticism

"Banal scary and horror piece with superficially funny elements and relevant special effects."

- Lexicon of international film

Trivia

  • The budget for the film was four million US dollars.
  • The film opened in German cinemas on March 20, 1986.
  • Tobe Hooper was supposed to direct, but was not available as he was working on the British film Lifeforce .
  • While working in the morgue, Ernie Kaltenbrunner listens to Norbert Schultze's German soldier song “ Panzer roll in Africa ” on his Walkman .
  • The film was indexed until 2011, after a re-examination it was approved by the FSK from 16.
  • The film served as the inspiration for the hip hop group Flatbush Zombies .

Awards

Sequels and Documentaries

The second sequel was directed by Brian Yuzna , parts four and five by Ellory Elkayem .

The low-budget independent film The Dead Hate the Living! from the year 2000 also bears the surname "Return of the Living Dead" on some DVD covers, but this probably more for marketing reasons than to belong to the series.

In 2011 Michael Perez Entertainment released the documentary More Brains - Night of the Living Dead (More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead) . In 115 minutes, actors, stage and make-up artists, but also director and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon talk about their experiences in making the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FSK release certificate (PDF; 38 kB)
  2. ↑ Damn it, the zombies are coming. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Review on twiligtmag.de: Review and reference to the Return of the Living Dead series
  4. ^ OFDb documentary More Brains - Night of the Living Dead