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The Return of the Living Dead
1985
· Movie
· 91 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1485
- IMDb #1530
- Google retired #540
- Rotten Tomatoes #2005
- Metacritic #1550
- Letterboxd #1120
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2688
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1650
- Metacritic Critics #1890
- Metacritic Audience #1103
- Douban #1410
- Kinopoisk #1970
- AlloCiné #2738
- Trakt #1595
Every rating
66–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 66, highest is Google on 94.
See the most agreed on films →A mishap at a medical supply warehouse releases a deadly gas that reanimates the dead into brain-eating zombies. A group of punks and warehouse employees must fight for survival as the zombies prove to be more intelligent and resilient than expected, and the military's solution threatens to make things worse.
Details
- Director
- Dan O'Bannon
- Writers
- Dan O'Bannon, John A. Russo, Rudy Ricci, Russell Streiner
- Released
- 25 April 1985
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $14.2M
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Awards
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