BRAINS!!!!

Well today I looked at Return of the Living Dead and just like every other time I have seen this movie I laughed my butt off. It has an awesomely crude sense of humor that lasted through the first three films in the series to make them instantly classic. This is THE movie that made us think of zombies when someone says "brains". They explain this because brains somehow ease the pain of dying. ROTLD covers a variety of hot topics from gangs to military conspiracy theories.

While it may not be the first zomedy it did break new grounds in some ways. It got the chance to play on nearly every stereotype for the living dead that people could come up with and make the zombies seem near invincible. It changed them from being slow, brainless, creachers that only munch on arms to being intelligent, crafty, bloodthirsty killers that could move as fast as their stage in decomposing would allow. Fresh bodies could run and old bodies could shamble slowly along.

It was a moment that holds a special place in my heart as funny and shocking when the zombies showed just how crafty they can be. When the paramedics or cops would come they would use the radio after they ate them to call in backup and bring more brains for their midnight snack. We have never seen behavior like this in other big name zombie movies outside of this series. They could think, talk, plot and more. Perfect killing machines as far as zombies go.

Don't mind the language but this movie also consisted of several "oh shit!" moments where there would be one person in the theater saying "no, don't do it!". The moment the tank is shown in the movie is our first moment, we get a feeling that something will go terribly wrong and they don't dissapoint in any way. Even when they start trying to get rid of the first body we get one of these moments as they turn on the fire and then we see the smoke going into they sky. All the way to the big finish of the movie which I won't tell you, so go watch it and find out.

Like many zombie movies, this one goes in phases. Things are peaceful and its another boring day, someone does something stupid and then "the shit hits the fan". It goes from one living corpse to a few more and it builds up fast to being a hoard of hundreds of brain hungry zombies. At no time do we feel that ROTLD drags on because they keep some sort of humorous event or bloody mess happening at many points in the movie.

This is a great addition to any zombie fans collection and I highly reccomend it for a night of pizza and drinks with friends. Go watch it and have a blast. There's no video this week simply cause this one is not open to public domain. So go do netflix or something to see it or just buy it, its well worth several viewings over time with friends.