That scene and the others, where they lose their enchiladas reminds me of Tommy Lee Jones in NBK, during the prison riot! Great stuff from all of them!
Went to see Fright Night (the original) in the theater, and when it was over, the manager came out and said if we wanted to stick around, we could see a new horror movie that was coming out in a couple of weeks. It's still one of the best movie-going experiences I've ever had.
wait... zombietanks as in ... tanks filled with zombies.... OR Zombie tanks... tanks designed to be used BY zombies FOR zombies? OR zombietanks zombies heavily armoured so they have the resemblance ov tanks? no matter the case... can yo uleave the back door open and wink?
Enjoyable commentary. "Tarman" was played by Allan Truatman who is a professional puppeteer, currently performing a live performance show created by Brian Henson called "Puppet Up!" Uncensored. Dan hired Allan because of Allan's understanding of "fluidity" in creating muppet movements when he worked for Jim Henson. In regards to myself and getting hired: Yes. Dan found me working at a private strip joint in Santa Monica called "The Ball". Dan was having little success in finding an actress willing to take off her clothes and stay naked for almost the entire movie. He first offered the part to a gal who was roughly 6ft and went by the stage name of "Leggs". There is a draft of the script where Dan names the "Trash" character "Leggs". However, the real "Leggs" lived in a van with her middle-aged boyfriend selling pot and turned the part down. The next gal offered the part was a girl named "DeeDee" and was all set except at the last moment she found out she was pregnant and there is a scripted version of her characters name "Deedee" too. Ha. Dan then turned to me and asked if I would like to be the "Naked Girl" but I had already been topless and or naked in so many a low-budget or men's magazine that being "Naked" in the rain and eaten by zombies wasn't that appealing do to my then current day gig involved posing with a large snake, naked. I was tired of being naked and begged Dan for one of the other roles where a character was clothed and was lucky enough to get the part of "Casey" named after my nickname as a kid growing up.
You seem knowledgeable, perhaps you can help me unravel this mystery. For the longest time (well over ten years, I'm 23) I've had recollections of what I think is a zombie movie made after this with kind of a punk vibe and aesthetic. What I recall is two young adults in a relationship and either the boy or girl (I think it's the girl) decide to rebel against their parents and run away together. I think they go into some secret chemical factory. I also recall seeing effects similar to this movies, as well as Tom savini, so it could possibly one of them even some other unknown SE artist/s. My memories on it are so vague I hardly know where to narrow it down. I had to have seen it among the many other movies I saw in my adolescence I shouldn't have been watching alone. More than likely a late 70's to mid 80's movie. Best of luck to you, random person on a RLM comment section who seems to know obscure details about movies who may or may not help. Edit: just recalled as of commenting I'm pretty sure our main characters are on a motorcycle and the antagonists are punk characters pursuing them in a van? And that some of the punks are affected by the chemical and become what I'm pretty sure are zombies? Sorry for the vagueness, I really don't remember much. I think our antagonists confront the two at a gas station before they run away to the factory? Another edit because research: what seemed like a rabbit hole at first really was more like a pothole. The imdb for this movie informed me that it had sequels and that I was thinking of I'm pretty sure is the third film? Definitely going to rewatch the trilogy soon. Nice performance by the way, I'm sure the only reason I remember the first one is because it's the best of them all.
i think its cute that Mike and Rich let little Jay have his friends over to discuss movies. its important for families to share things and its soo nice the parents are encouraging the next generation for when they grow up to be adults!
The part where he kisses his wedding ring and leaves it on the controls was a bit heartbreaking. That's what I loved about this movie, if it wanted a funny or sad or tense scene, it did that scene unapologetic.
And it's the song playing that elevates it. Something I wish the reviewers had gotten into - the soundtrack was amazing! When the jaw drops and "Do you want to paaaartay!" blares! When Frank is facing the oven and "Burn...Burn to flames..." slowly plays. Awesome.
Frank's character arc was very well handled. When Freddie turns on his girlfriend and starts trying to eat her brains, you can see Frank's zombie book it out of the chapel in all of the chaos. Him kissing his wedding ring before he cremated himself was a great parallel to Freddy hounding and trying to eat his girlfriend's brains. Also, great foreshadowing with the line "Are you kidding? Even I could operate that thing!"
Hahaha! Ms Quigley is FINE! I just saw *Night of the Demons* for the first time last week, she rocks in that.... (and *Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama* - always good for a laugh too) - Looking forward to checking out *Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers* next! XD
she was supposedly wearing a prosthetic crotch that scene so she wouldn't have her genitals exposed. given how all the other movies Jay referenced the actress being topless i guess this was in her contract or something about topless only XD
@@VenEm Yeah man.....I have NO idea why she does that (insert the whole lipstick into her left demon tit) I wonder maybe it's some kinda movie symbolism, that went right over my head?? It's pretty weird! XD Kick ass movie though!
It's good to see that Linnea Quigley's career progressed from dancing naked while getting drenched in beer in 'Psycho from Texas' back in 1975, to dancing naked then getting drenched in mud while being devoured by zombies in 'Return of the Living Dead' in 1985.
@@GamerGuysReviews Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper Mostly because he contribution to that "movie" amount to two recorded lines with no physical appearance whatsoever.
Dan O'Bannon's masterpiece. RotLD is one of my favorite horror comedies that has ever been made. I'd say it's as close to perfection as a film can come.
@@Duncaster I literally did. Also I hit myself in the head in time with the review theme tune. that or I bite the back of my hand and punch my palm. I think its some kind of tourettes
I think hes the least scary one in the whole movie. Yeah he looks intimidating and creepy, but he's slow and falling apart. The fresh zombies are much scarier.
@@warbossgegguz679 The fresh zombies are much scarier? You mean the badly acting bunch of extras in their cheap makeup, running and jumping around like drunk party kids? Seriously? That's about as scary as children in Halloween costumes. That was always the one part destroying the atmosphere of the movie for me.
She was the naked girl coming out of Freddy in A Nightmare On Elm Street part 4 The Dream Master. Her husband proposed to her after she did that scene. I knew that the recognized those boobies lol!!!!!!!!
@@JewelShepardOfficial The real Jewel Shepard here on yt? Woah I have just seen this for the very first time the other night. My eyes were drawn to you everytime you were on screen
"I've probably seen Linnea Quigley naked more throughout my life than anyone I know personally" absolutely killed me. Also the only reason I knew about the Linnea Quigley Horror Workout before this video is because Perturbator sampled it on one of his songs. For once I knew about an obscure 80s horror thing before Jay brought it up!
Yes!! Iconic screaming if you ask me, super entertaining for me. Just end up laughing at the chaos. It's great how he came back as a grave robber in the 2nd 1 and he brought back the screaming/sobbing. Lol
Tar man is easily one of my favorite things in any movie with how detailed and nightmarish it looks. They absolutely nailed the design. I think they did a decent job on tar man in the sequel too, but that original design is absolutely stunning to this day.
@@GamerGuysReviews yeah... They definitely tried to just put in as many different goofy zombies as they could to appeal to a younger audience or to people that disliked the dark tone of the original. So Tar man had nothing more than just a cameo in the movie.
Seriously, for YEARS I've been trying to remember the movie with the vivisection dog. And for the longest time I also confused the naked graveyard scenes with Ghostbusters, too!
Freddie's feelings toward the movie perfectly describe my relationship with Mars Attacks. I walked in on my parents watching it as a kid and it scared the hell out of me. It wasn't until later that I realized the whole thing was a big goofy joke. I can appreciate it for what it is now but something about it is still creepy to me just because it freaked me out so much as a child,
I had exactly the same experience as a 7 year old! I never met anyone with the same experience because in Holland movies are rarely dubbed so kids rarely watch non-disney American movies
You hit the nail on the head my friend. Between this movie and Independence Day, my childhood was ruled by nightmares of alien invasions. It's funny how imagery that is so outright comedic to adults can be sooooo misconstrued by children. For instance, the scene where the dove of peace is released and flies majestically into the air - only to be zapped by a laser and fall down as a perfectly fried skeleton bird. Now, I think that's one of the funniest parts in the movie, but back then, it scared the living *daylights* out of me. That image kept me up so many nights, haha. Independence Day is equally as non-scary now, but only because of it's incompetence.
Similar experience for me. Watched it with my brother and the throat slitting thing was probably one of the most fucked up things I saw at the time, and then there was the severed heads. Then I watched it again quite a few years later and it ended up being the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's a disasterpiece.
I had recurring nightmares about the tar man zombie chasing me at a slow pace around a conveniance store near my house. It was terrifiy but I could always just keep walking in circles. It never occurred to me to just leave the store. Love this film!
The first time I saw this movie it was the dead of winter and the middle of the night and I was very young. My older brother decided to put it on and I was enjoying it even though it was freaking me out. At some point my brother left but I kept watching. My house growing up was heated mainly with a wood/coal burning stove in the basement and we needed more coal in the house. The coal was in the backyard on the other side of the house from the backdoor and there was no light. So here I am, a little kid, having to go out in the middle of the night to get a bucket of coal on a night that felt extra dark with no flashlight right after watching this movie. It did not help that I had a vivid imagination. So yeah, I am a little scarred from watching this movie
My roommates and I have recently been on a Linnea Quigley movie streak and honestly she doesn’t miss… every single movie I’ve seen her in is really good. This and Night of the Demons are the best imo
The PACING of this movie 💯👍. This film has been a favorite of mine for 30 years now. I was lucky to see it in a theater about 5 years ago, and it was then that I realized this movie just goes bang bang bang from scene to scene. Rarely are movies paced so excellent. No boredom, nothing lost in any scene.
it's an easy 10/10 for me, with Romero's Day of the dead coming in second place, and Night of the Creeps in 3rd. My only nit pick with Return of the Living dead is with most of the 'extra' zombies. They looked like humans covered in mud. That's where they dropped the ball. XD When you compare them with Tar man, and the handful of other amazing looking zombies.
This is the platonic ideal of 1980's Fangoria horror. It's what we imagine all these films were trying to be, but almost none of them were, and it's what so many horror directors decades later were trying to recreate.
My favorite horror film of all time. Trash had a huge effect on teenage me. Lots of humor and genuine scares. This movie captured lightning in a bottle with cast, crew and all involved.
When I was a kid in the mid 80's, one of my best friends saw this film. He told me all about it and it sounded really scary. He made a big deal abut the scene with the dog that is cut in half. So, all I knew about the film were the scenes that my friend had told me. Some time later that summer, I was attending bible camp. And one of the activities we did, one day, was play "Win, Lose or Draw!" in small groups. The category must've been Movies, and when my turn came up, I had to draw "Return of the Living Dead." Having never seen the movie, all I knew about it were scenes that my friend had described to me. So I started drawing a picture of a cross section of a dog, with bones and guts and all the insides showing. At a bible camp. In front of 11 year-olds. Needless to say, nobody had a clue what I was drawing. Such an obscure scene from a crazy horror movie. To this day, I have not seen this movie. The scene of the vivisected dog is nothing like the image I've had in my mind all these years.
maaaate, no joke, sometimes (most times) I just refresh RUclips waiting for something to catch my eye or go down the rabbit hole on some mad tangent. Unless this pops up, then the whole world can fuck off for an hour whilst I watch.
@ Ian Collins It made me so happy to read how sad you get when you're happy to get that notification. But then I got sad. Which makes me really happy, sadly.
Good lord, Freddie's story about this movie is almost EXACTLY like my own. My late mother was a huge horror movie buff and I grew up watching them with her. The music in ROTLD especially got to me as a kid. As much as it scared me as a kid, it is now one of my all time favorites. Thanks guys, for this fun video.
fish bloop I was 17 when I saw this in the theater with my friend & his little brother. I remember thinking I was a little freaked out, so I figured my friend’s little brother must be pretty scared.
I saw it when I was 9 yrs.old in a small theater in this little town in west Texas hill country that was totally in the middle of nowhere. All of the humor went right over my head, and it scared the living shit out of me, lol. By far it's the scariest movie I've ever seen, which is funny because now I see it much more as a comedy mixed with some horror and I really appreciate the great filmmaking and acting. Anyways when I saw it as a little kid I had to walk home by myself in the dark. And if you've ever lived in the country you know it gets dark as fuck at night. So my "walk" home quickly turned into an all out sprint for my life, sure at any moment I would feel a boney grip on my shoulder and hot putrid breath on my neck. That was on a Friday, and I went and saw in again the next night and ended up running for my life again, lol. One of my favorite movie memories. Phenomenal movie.
Jake Sorenson Freddie is one of my favorite guests. I still enjoy Josh though, I sometimes feel like I’m one of only a few people who like every person on redlettermedia🤷🏻♀️
Fun fact #2 at 28:48 Miguel A. Núñez didn't think Don Calfa was going to slap him that hard but for realism Don really let him have it with two hard slaps. Originally it was supposed to be just a single slap and not so intense. After the take, Miguel was extremely pissed off and wanted to punch Don in the face. It ended with them yelling at each other and walking off. The director used the take since it was so good.
Oh man, Mark Venturini who played Suicide died about ten years after the movie came out, of leukemia - he was only 35 :( He really sold that character, "you think this is a costume!? This is a way of life!". Loved his performance.
@@ZootWorld1 Awesome, nice one. The version I have has the crematorium (and thus the classic Roky Erickson track) suicide scene cut down to almost nothing and one of the zombies has a really bad over-dubbed voice over the original audio. Feck knows why someone thought it was a good idea to do that to a monumentally classic horror.
The workprint (which is in a Living Dead set, and around online) is another cut worth tracking down,it has about 20 minutes of footage not in the final cut..
my best friend Marco Venturini played Suicide. Unfortunately he died years ago. We used to hang out all the time and party our asses of. It's so funny and surreal to see him in RedLetterMedia.
IMO that was the worst topless scene in the history of movies... Her tits look strange as fuck... almost no nipples at ALL... Not to mention its the worst boob job ever.. she probably was naturally a C cup... FUck fakeness.
I went to school in Kansas City Missouri and my teacher told me there were enough nukes to destroy the world 7 times over. Maybe it was a it's a regional thing to say that around there.
It’s amazing how much I can relate to Freddie on this. This movie terrified me as a kid. It’s that feeling of you cannot win against the monsters that are going to eat you. I’m glad there’s such a resurgence of appreciation for it.
@@elonmush4793 Agreed. My favourite kids movies were Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, Braindead and Friday 13th parts 4-7. Oh and a shit ton of terrible dubbed 70s kung fu movies. Not exactly great taste compared to the gems out there, but fuck me, my 12-16 year old me loved that stuff and still do. Old horror movies, old kung fu movies and Wu Tang Clan are about the only things from my youth I still love to this day, and don't make me curl up like a slug in salt from cringe.
Similar story. Older brother showed it to me as a kid and it genuinely terrified me (specifically the spine lady, and when Freddy fully transforms and goes after Tina). Watched it again a couple years ago to "face my fears" and loved it. It's a great zombie/horror movie. I'm surprised they didn't talk about the great score either (the intro music is classic).
Ah, speaking of movies one watches in youth totally inappropriately, warping your mind for the rest of your life... (that I have the blu ray box set of sitting literally a foot away on my desk right now, in fact)
Nice to see a review of the greatest zombie movie ever. Well done! I work in animation and put the half-dog in a bunch of backgrounds on shows I worked on. Sitting there on a shelf somewhere in many, many cartoons.
Simply one of the greatest zombie movies ever. Introducing "Fast" zombies long before 28 Days Later, introducing the idea of "BrAiNsSsSs," naked Linnea Quigley for every teenage boy to rewind and pause on over and over again until their video cassette broke and got stuck in their family's VCR, etc. And it's so quintessentially 80's, I'm surprised it's not more back in vogue given the Stranger Things obsession.
Thank you Freddie for articulating my experience with this film. I saw it when I was 8 (probably 1986) and was scarred for life! I love it so much to this day!
All the skeletons with eyes combined with the punk rock aesthetic makes me think the people who made this were at least aware of the Misfits, even if they aren't included on the soundtrack. It's also always perplexed me that they weren't on the soundtrack. This movie is literally perfect for their music. The bands they picked were cool and all, but come on, you're gonna do a punk rock zombie movie and not use the Misfits? My guess is they were too hardcore for a mainstream 80s movie. The songs chosen are all really clean and more moderately paced compared to early Misfits material. Yeah, it's a punk rock movie, but it still has to sell to the mainstream after all. But come on. They have a song called Braineater for fucks sake...
Secular Ascetic Good point. They even got TSOL, famous for songs like “Code Blue” with lyrics such as “I Wanna Fuck the Dead,” but used one of their latter day songs which are honestly super scrubbed clean by comparison.
Could be but I’ve heard that the skeleton was a holdover from the original effects guy who was fired because he was not up to par. One of the producers talks about how much he hated in a recent doc I saw on the movie and that it was one of the reasons he got fired
I doubt it's that they were "too hardcore". They used The Cramps and they were arguably more transgressive than The Misfits. The whole horror gimmick has been a thing since Screamin' Jay Hawkins, but The Cramps had that, then they had like a whole other sexual deviant thing going on playing strip clubs and (I think) even licensing some of their music to be used hardcore porn. You can get dolls of The Misfits and shit. I doubt we'll ever see a doll of Lux Interior in a pair of women's stilettos and leather panties or Poison Ivy in her little glittery transparent catsuit.
I think they were obtaining the music groups through the ENIGMA label at the time who had all these bands. I think that was more reason for the soundtrack not including bands like the Misfits.
I watched it alone in my grandmas creepy ass den probably around 1986 when I was 6. My uncles put the VHS tape on and I was too scared to get off the couch. I had nightmares many years after that movie. Its my favorite horror movie of all time though.
R.i.p. james Karen (aka frank) from Return of the living dead😑 He was awesome in that movie. That scene where he tells Freddie about the barrels being shipped there by accident is brilliantly paced.
Nothing beats the 80's movies. Robo Cop, Predator, Return of the Living Dead, Red Dawn, Conan the Barbarian, Ghost Busters, basically any Eddie Murphy movie, and the list goes on and on.
There are hundreds of movies from the 80s nobody remembers or wants to remember. Yeah it seems like a great decade when you can just go back and look at only the good stuff, but there was just as much shit back then as there is now.
Secular Ascetic you've got a point but u have to admit they embraced R ratings, had FANTASTIC practical effects, and there wasn't this f-ed up "be offended by everything" society we're living in now. So in my book 80's movies are better.
@@nihilismistheonlyway4680 the 80s was just as offended by everything as people are today, it was just a different group of people. You had shit like the PMRC and other uptight organizations chastising everyone. I love all of the movies listed, and I love practical effects, but that doesn't mean every thing from the 80s is automatically better.
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"YOU MEAN THE MOVIE LIED?!" - lol love that line
@@wstine79 Well it ain't working now Frank!
sooo good 🥰
That scene and the others, where they lose their enchiladas reminds me of Tommy Lee Jones in NBK, during the prison riot!
Great stuff from all of them!
i thought the line is "But didn't the movie lie?!?" Fred trying to explain why it didnt work.
"Loud equals funny!"
Went to see Fright Night (the original) in the theater, and when it was over, the manager came out and said if we wanted to stick around, we could see a new horror movie that was coming out in a couple of weeks. It's still one of the best movie-going experiences I've ever had.
Holy shit am I jealous of that experience.
And it was this movie?
That's amazing, would never happen now.
What a night! How awesome that you got to do that!
That's awesome but imagine if you had prior commitments, that you couldn't break? And you left after Fright night?
That would suck, big time.
I like to think that Jay would have been a doctor or engineer or something if he hadn’t poisoned his brain with this movie as a child
@@garrettokelly5357 Exactly like Jay, he just reviews shitty movies instead.
he would had cured cancer.
@@stupled he could have cured AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDS
Well, I'm glad he did..... 'Dr Bauman' would be nowhere near as enjoyable to watch
Thank goodness he poisoned his brain. I'd hate see him waste his life as a doctor or engineer.
The Gozer / Trash thing I totally can see and understand.
Lily Maria Whiddon Same
Same camera angles. The infamous "between the legs" shot that was used in a lot of movie posters back then too.
I'm learning more about Jay's childhood. No wonder he is the way he is. Jumpin' Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg will do that to you.
It really does. So started his interest in the obscure, the horror, and the art house films that no one else in the RLM crew has ever heard of
I saw that movie as a kid too. I only remember Whoopi Goldberg biting the bad guy in the dick.
Pretty cruel of a parent to subject their child to Whoopi Goldberg.
Yeah,
there's nothing quite so detrimental to young developing minds than watching
Whoopi Goldberg comedies O~O
I work in a medical supply warehouse so this movie holds a special place in my heart. Zombie tanks come in and out all the time.
Typical army fuckup..
wait... zombietanks as in ... tanks filled with zombies....
OR
Zombie tanks... tanks designed to be used BY zombies FOR zombies?
OR
zombietanks zombies heavily armoured so they have the resemblance ov tanks?
no matter the case... can yo uleave the back door open and wink?
@@nunyanunya4147wow, Cringe.
@@nunyanunya4147 what the sigma
Wow this movie stars Linnea Quigley from the hit film Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper?
And the 1988 smash hit Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama!
And also the poor barmaid from the disturbing beer scene from Psycho from Texas (also an RLM classic review).
As a non native American, this comment alone is a gold mine lore wise
Enjoyable commentary. "Tarman" was played by Allan Truatman who is a professional puppeteer, currently performing a live performance show created by Brian Henson called "Puppet Up!" Uncensored. Dan hired Allan because of Allan's understanding of "fluidity" in creating muppet movements when he worked for Jim Henson. In regards to myself and getting hired: Yes. Dan found me working at a private strip joint in Santa Monica called "The Ball". Dan was having little success in finding an actress willing to take off her clothes and stay naked for almost the entire movie. He first offered the part to a gal who was roughly 6ft and went by the stage name of "Leggs". There is a draft of the script where Dan names the "Trash" character "Leggs". However, the real "Leggs" lived in a van with her middle-aged boyfriend selling pot and turned the part down. The next gal offered the part was a girl named "DeeDee" and was all set except at the last moment she found out she was pregnant and there is a scripted version of her characters name "Deedee" too. Ha. Dan then turned to me and asked if I would like to be the "Naked Girl" but I had already been topless and or naked in so many a low-budget or men's magazine that being "Naked" in the rain and eaten by zombies wasn't that appealing do to my then current day gig involved posing with a large snake, naked. I was tired of being naked and begged Dan for one of the other roles where a character was clothed and was lucky enough to get the part of "Casey" named after my nickname as a kid growing up.
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You seem knowledgeable, perhaps you can help me unravel this mystery. For the longest time (well over ten years, I'm 23) I've had recollections of what I think is a zombie movie made after this with kind of a punk vibe and aesthetic. What I recall is two young adults in a relationship and either the boy or girl (I think it's the girl) decide to rebel against their parents and run away together. I think they go into some secret chemical factory. I also recall seeing effects similar to this movies, as well as Tom savini, so it could possibly one of them even some other unknown SE artist/s. My memories on it are so vague I hardly know where to narrow it down. I had to have seen it among the many other movies I saw in my adolescence I shouldn't have been watching alone. More than likely a late 70's to mid 80's movie. Best of luck to you, random person on a RLM comment section who seems to know obscure details about movies who may or may not help.
Edit: just recalled as of commenting I'm pretty sure our main characters are on a motorcycle and the antagonists are punk characters pursuing them in a van? And that some of the punks are affected by the chemical and become what I'm pretty sure are zombies? Sorry for the vagueness, I really don't remember much. I think our antagonists confront the two at a gas station before they run away to the factory?
Another edit because research: what seemed like a rabbit hole at first really was more like a pothole. The imdb for this movie informed me that it had sequels and that I was thinking of I'm pretty sure is the third film? Definitely going to rewatch the trilogy soon. Nice performance by the way, I'm sure the only reason I remember the first one is because it's the best of them all.
The Linnea Quigley 'Horror Workout' tape is featured in it's entirety as an extra on the 'Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers' blu ray released by 88 films.
Only 50 upvotes?
This ignorant culture....
Learned about it from a Perturbator song that used samples from it. Great track.
Aptly titled: _Linnea Quigley Horror Workout_ by Perturbator.
"I know what you're doing when you're watching my movies: _just how many calories do you think _*_THAT_*_ burns?!"_
Cool, thanks for the info.
My copy is a dvd bootleg.
I'm guessing the Bluray will have better quality!
Gotta love "Trash".
Cheers from Canada
Jay's completely obscure film knowledge is my favorite part of his appearance on these shows.
@@Dravianpn02 I would assume Grayce means obscure to the common person. Most people are not huge fans of b movies. That's what's obscure about it.
I’m still waiting for his review of Streets of Fire 🔥
@@Dravianpn02 I assume they mean Jay referencing the Ressurected, or the long list of Linnea Quigley movies
I think you are correct. But could you confirm with T.V.s Frank, just to be sure :)
i think its cute that Mike and Rich let little Jay have his friends over to discuss movies.
its important for families to share things and its soo nice the parents are encouraging the next generation for when they grow up to be adults!
Nice review by Jay and old Orson Wells.
Ah, the French...
*lifts head*
“Nhaaaahhhh”
AAWAAAHHHHH THE LIVING DEAD HAVEALWAYSBEEN [URP] REMEMBERED FOR THEY’RE ESEXULLENCE ANDTHEFINEFOLKS AT....
We know of a small town in Louisville Kentucky where Mrs. Buckley lives, every July, zompeas grow there...
Seeing Frank cremate himself alive was one of the saddest images that I've ever seen in cinema history.
It's a sad moment in the film, but Frank was already dead (according to the paramedics).
The part where he kisses his wedding ring and leaves it on the controls was a bit heartbreaking.
That's what I loved about this movie, if it wanted a funny or sad or tense scene, it did that scene unapologetic.
I agree
And it's the song playing that elevates it. Something I wish the reviewers had gotten into - the soundtrack was amazing! When the jaw drops and "Do you want to paaaartay!" blares! When Frank is facing the oven and "Burn...Burn to flames..." slowly plays. Awesome.
Frank's character arc was very well handled. When Freddie turns on his girlfriend and starts trying to eat her brains, you can see Frank's zombie book it out of the chapel in all of the chaos. Him kissing his wedding ring before he cremated himself was a great parallel to Freddy hounding and trying to eat his girlfriend's brains.
Also, great foreshadowing with the line "Are you kidding? Even I could operate that thing!"
I broke my VHS copy as a teen constantly pausing and rewinding to watch Trash's strip dance.
Hahaha! Ms Quigley is FINE!
I just saw *Night of the Demons* for the first time last week, she rocks in that....
(and *Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama* - always good for a laugh too) - Looking forward to checking out *Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers* next! XD
she was supposedly wearing a prosthetic crotch that scene so she wouldn't have her genitals exposed. given how all the other movies Jay referenced the actress being topless i guess this was in her contract or something about topless only XD
@@zetetick395 i saw it ages ago and never knew she was the titty lipstick chick
She was a bombshell back then, good lord
@@VenEm Yeah man.....I have NO idea why she does that (insert the whole lipstick into her left demon tit)
I wonder maybe it's some kinda movie symbolism, that went right over my head?? It's pretty weird! XD
Kick ass movie though!
It's good to see that Linnea Quigley's career progressed from dancing naked while getting drenched in beer in 'Psycho from Texas' back in 1975, to dancing naked then getting drenched in mud while being devoured by zombies in 'Return of the Living Dead' in 1985.
she also shoved a cigerette through her nipple in 'night ov demons' in... (too lazy to look it up)
"And then as a teenager, I watched it for an entirely different reason."
"What reason is that?"
Its not a bad question, Burt.
Underrated comment.
Fuck yeah, I love this movie. Great way to spend my Friday watching you two talk about it.
Video Is only half an hour long mate
damn your weekend was short ya nutter
Love ya, Gman. How’s yer mum?
Holy crap its gman!
Why do you watch all the same videos as me Sonny Jim, this is like the 50th time lol. Big fan!
The guy playing that preacher is so late 90s it’s horrific. How did Russo think that was going to pass?
Looks more like Anton LeVay than a Christian Reverend.
nu metal vocalist looking dude.
@@FredCracklin the guy's name was vladimir what did you expect
@@BIaziken2 I wouldn't say nu metal band member, I'd say he looks more like a producer of drum and bass.
@@FredCracklin Anton Levy is his real name, and he reminds me of a Rabbi.
Seeing Quigley naked more than anyone you actually know is probably not that uncommon a situation.
@@GamerGuysReviews Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper
Mostly because he contribution to that "movie" amount to two recorded lines with no physical appearance whatsoever.
@@Mutant1988
I suspect she was naked when recording those lines to keep up with her combo.
Andy Baxter You mean the Gary Busey Quigley?
Dan O'Bannon's masterpiece. RotLD is one of my favorite horror comedies that has ever been made. I'd say it's as close to perfection as a film can come.
Wow first you get Macaulay Culkin and now you get legendary British actor Brian Blessed to do a RLM video! Moving up fellas.
Alive!
@@aaahzpervect5755 shit yes 👍🙏
"I've probably seen Lenah Quigley naked more than anyone I know personally" - Jay Bauman
Damn even more than Mike?
Linnea, not Lenah.
She was my first pair of movie breasts I saw.
What a horrible fate! My heart bleeds for you 🤣🤣
"send more cops" if they wanted brains why'd they ask for cops? -some guy next to me in the theater who will forever live on in my memory
🤣
And then everyone clapped?
@@jessewilliams8655 I LITERALLY just stood up and clapped after reading the comment
@@velvetinedrapes4359 I clapped! I clapped when I read it!
@@Duncaster I literally did. Also I hit myself in the head in time with the review theme tune. that or I bite the back of my hand and punch my palm. I think its some kind of tourettes
The Academy Awards used a clip of James Karen from Return of the Living Dead to honor him in their In Memoriam segment.
Tarman remains the most terrifying on screen zombie to date.
Terrifying. Yet a strangely friendly face.
He's goofy and deadly at the same time.
He's very earnest.@@zubrhero5270
I think hes the least scary one in the whole movie. Yeah he looks intimidating and creepy, but he's slow and falling apart. The fresh zombies are much scarier.
@@warbossgegguz679
The fresh zombies are much scarier? You mean the badly acting bunch of extras in their cheap makeup, running and jumping around like drunk party kids?
Seriously? That's about as scary as children in Halloween costumes. That was always the one part destroying the atmosphere of the movie for me.
It's so cool you guys got Orson Welles to come back from the dead to talk about his favorite movie post-mortem.
They resurrected Dom Deluise.
Linnea Quigley: I'm naked in every movie i'm in.
fan theory the red haired zombie who talks was the girlfriend star from the third film with red hair js
@@DamianAngels Huh!
@@111highgh the third return of the dead the girlfriend who dies o. Motorcycle maybe she's the talking zombie from the first rotld
She was the naked girl coming out of Freddy in A Nightmare On Elm Street part 4 The Dream Master. Her husband proposed to her after she did that scene. I knew that the recognized those boobies lol!!!!!!!!
In a documentary she revealed that her dad was a doctor and because of the nature of the work, she was always comfortable with nudity.
I love how the movie subtly implies that Ernie might be a fan of Germany circa 1935-1945
And he tries to hide in the attic to survive 😂
@@Louis-wp3fq that didnt even occur to me lol. That has to be intentional lol
So... send you DVD copies of Jumping Jack Flash ...
Gotcha
They also need more copies of Nukie !!
Linnea Quigley dance is one of the reasons why I found Gozer hot
>Put on a fake beard on Rich Evans
>Make Mike dub him with a low-pitched voice
>Pretend you have a guest
>??? (Something only Hacks would do)
>Profit
@@eveeve8254 Rich, in the latest BOTW
jesus christ the "Damn enchiladas!" cut puts me in pieces every time.
I will tell Miguel that the next time I see him 🤣🤣
@@JewelShepardOfficial The real Jewel Shepard here on yt? Woah I have just seen this for the very first time the other night. My eyes were drawn to you everytime you were on screen
"I've probably seen Linnea Quigley naked more throughout my life than anyone I know personally" absolutely killed me.
Also the only reason I knew about the Linnea Quigley Horror Workout before this video is because Perturbator sampled it on one of his songs. For once I knew about an obscure 80s horror thing before Jay brought it up!
I think the track he sampled it on was.. "Linnea Quigley Horror Workout"
The old guy carrying on in all the scenes yelling/screaming/sobbing “ohhhhhh!”, is freaking the best parts.
Yes!! Iconic screaming if you ask me, super entertaining for me. Just end up laughing at the chaos. It's great how he came back as a grave robber in the 2nd 1 and he brought back the screaming/sobbing. Lol
God bless James Karen, he was such a treat
Tar man is easily one of my favorite things in any movie with how detailed and nightmarish it looks. They absolutely nailed the design.
I think they did a decent job on tar man in the sequel too, but that original design is absolutely stunning to this day.
@@GamerGuysReviews yeah... They definitely tried to just put in as many different goofy zombies as they could to appeal to a younger audience or to people that disliked the dark tone of the original. So Tar man had nothing more than just a cameo in the movie.
RIP Clu Gulager.
May you return and feed on lots of brains
Seriously, for YEARS I've been trying to remember the movie with the vivisection dog. And for the longest time I also confused the naked graveyard scenes with Ghostbusters, too!
Jay's random knowledge of directors and actors in obscure movies always impresses me.
Freddie's feelings toward the movie perfectly describe my relationship with Mars Attacks. I walked in on my parents watching it as a kid and it scared the hell out of me. It wasn't until later that I realized the whole thing was a big goofy joke. I can appreciate it for what it is now but something about it is still creepy to me just because it freaked me out so much as a child,
Same! Rewatching it though the comedy is so much better with that tinge of childhood trauma.
I had exactly the same experience as a 7 year old! I never met anyone with the same experience because in Holland movies are rarely dubbed so kids rarely watch non-disney American movies
You hit the nail on the head my friend. Between this movie and Independence Day, my childhood was ruled by nightmares of alien invasions.
It's funny how imagery that is so outright comedic to adults can be sooooo misconstrued by children. For instance, the scene where the dove of peace is released and flies majestically into the air - only to be zapped by a laser and fall down as a perfectly fried skeleton bird. Now, I think that's one of the funniest parts in the movie, but back then, it scared the living *daylights* out of me. That image kept me up so many nights, haha.
Independence Day is equally as non-scary now, but only because of it's incompetence.
Similar experience for me. Watched it with my brother and the throat slitting thing was probably one of the most fucked up things I saw at the time, and then there was the severed heads. Then I watched it again quite a few years later and it ended up being the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's a disasterpiece.
I first saw Poltergeist when I was nine.....
To this day: Fuck that toy clown! O~O
I had recurring nightmares about the tar man zombie chasing me at a slow pace around a conveniance store near my house. It was terrifiy but I could always just keep walking in circles. It never occurred to me to just leave the store. Love this film!
Them damn enchiladas!
You'll feel better after you shit!
James woods?
Oooo Baby oooo Baby
I'd like to see a re:view of Scanners or They live
The first time I saw this movie it was the dead of winter and the middle of the night and I was very young. My older brother decided to put it on and I was enjoying it even though it was freaking me out. At some point my brother left but I kept watching. My house growing up was heated mainly with a wood/coal burning stove in the basement and we needed more coal in the house. The coal was in the backyard on the other side of the house from the backdoor and there was no light. So here I am, a little kid, having to go out in the middle of the night to get a bucket of coal on a night that felt extra dark with no flashlight right after watching this movie. It did not help that I had a vivid imagination. So yeah, I am a little scarred from watching this movie
My roommates and I have recently been on a Linnea Quigley movie streak and honestly she doesn’t miss… every single movie I’ve seen her in is really good. This and Night of the Demons are the best imo
Tar man is still the coolest looking creature I've ever seen in a film. Even the way he turns that crank is gross
The PACING of this movie 💯👍. This film has been a favorite of mine for 30 years now. I was lucky to see it in a theater about 5 years ago, and it was then that I realized this movie just goes bang bang bang from scene to scene. Rarely are movies paced so excellent. No boredom, nothing lost in any scene.
it's an easy 10/10 for me, with Romero's Day of the dead coming in second place, and Night of the Creeps in 3rd.
My only nit pick with Return of the Living dead is with most of the 'extra' zombies. They looked like humans covered in mud. That's where they dropped the ball. XD When you compare them with Tar man, and the handful of other amazing looking zombies.
This isn't a costume. It's a way of life.
It's not a way of life
It's just a polythene Pac-Man poncho, is what it is, Rich
"What's in the bags?"
"Rabid weasels."
I'll never forget that one.
This is the platonic ideal of 1980's Fangoria horror. It's what we imagine all these films were trying to be, but almost none of them were, and it's what so many horror directors decades later were trying to recreate.
Hey, where's the Jumpin Jack Flash Re:view?
My favorite horror film of all time. Trash had a huge effect on teenage me. Lots of humor and genuine scares. This movie captured lightning in a bottle with cast, crew and all involved.
Hello!
*lightning
The 3rd one is good.
Hail Cecil
Trash's body was, like, fucking perfectly proportioned. Teenage us didn't stand a chance.
When I was a kid in the mid 80's, one of my best friends saw this film. He told me all about it and it sounded really scary. He made a big deal abut the scene with the dog that is cut in half. So, all I knew about the film were the scenes that my friend had told me. Some time later that summer, I was attending bible camp. And one of the activities we did, one day, was play "Win, Lose or Draw!" in small groups. The category must've been Movies, and when my turn came up, I had to draw "Return of the Living Dead." Having never seen the movie, all I knew about it were scenes that my friend had described to me. So I started drawing a picture of a cross section of a dog, with bones and guts and all the insides showing. At a bible camp. In front of 11 year-olds. Needless to say, nobody had a clue what I was drawing. Such an obscure scene from a crazy horror movie. To this day, I have not seen this movie. The scene of the vivisected dog is nothing like the image I've had in my mind all these years.
It's sad how happy it makes me when I get the notification for new Red Letter Media content.
It's not sad. It's exciting :D
Same here..only notification that ever is exciting
maaaate, no joke, sometimes (most times) I just refresh RUclips waiting for something to catch my eye or go down the rabbit hole on some mad tangent.
Unless this pops up, then the whole world can fuck off for an hour whilst I watch.
It's okay, dude. We're all lonely as fuck.
@ Ian Collins
It made me so happy to read how sad you get when you're happy to get that notification. But then I got sad. Which makes me really happy, sadly.
All I can say is...
...Send more paramedics
Send more cops.
Recruit more cops, more paramedics.
I think re:View is my second favorite show on here right behind Best of the Worst.
Best of the Worst is the best... of the shows...
But all the lore is in Half in the Bag. Tough call
for me it's HITB and then Re:View. Only saw one BOTW and i didn't care for it
Ethan Shukis blaspheme
Gamestation 2.0 All the way for me!
Imagine how much better The Walking Dead could have been if they used this universe instead of the night of the living dead.
Would be interesting for sure! But as far as the seasons go.. I'm not sure how long just One season would be lol
Good lord, Freddie's story about this movie is almost EXACTLY like my own. My late mother was a huge horror movie buff and I grew up watching them with her. The music in ROTLD especially got to me as a kid. As much as it scared me as a kid, it is now one of my all time favorites. Thanks guys, for this fun video.
"Return of the Living Dead" is just what happens any time Rich Evans comes back on screen
EVERY TIME HE BEATS AIDS!
And diabetes, and cancer...
**sad slide whistle**
Redlettermedia haven't even heard of Gillette.
No, I think that would be:
Night of the Laughing Dick (the Birthday boy)
;)
10:42 I always laugh my ass off at that part!
"You mean the movie lied?!" XD
This movie has the scariest zombies imo
I got lovecraft vibes from the zombies, its just so surreal
Not so much now, but Nothing, I mean nothing, scared me more than Dawn of the Dead zombies. But, I was also 8 when I saw it for the first time.
Robert Spahn i was 21 when i first saw this and that was in 2013. they put the hair up on my arms. something about them scare me a lot
The first fast, smart and indestructible zombies
fish bloop I was 17 when I saw this in the theater with my friend & his little brother. I remember thinking I was a little freaked out, so I figured my friend’s little brother must be pretty scared.
Just those short clips of Tar Man creeped me out watching this at midnight.
Is Linnea Quigley replacing Gozer the Gozerian?
Tarman scared the hell out of me as a kid. It still creeps me out as an adult.
Tarman startled me but I thought I got over it quickly until 3 nights later when he invaded my dreams . Lol ...not fun
"Mmmmm..... brains!"
I love the way Tar Man see's humans as nothing more than "brains" and only "brains."
Same here...the scene when Tarman walks out and goes after Tina, haunted me for years as a kid.
"Mwaaaaaah the French."
-guy on the left
I saw it when I was 9 yrs.old in a small theater in this little town in west Texas hill country that was totally in the middle of nowhere. All of the humor went right over my head, and it scared the living shit out of me, lol. By far it's the scariest movie I've ever seen, which is funny because now I see it much more as a comedy mixed with some horror and I really appreciate the great filmmaking and acting. Anyways when I saw it as a little kid I had to walk home by myself in the dark. And if you've ever lived in the country you know it gets dark as fuck at night. So my "walk" home quickly turned into an all out sprint for my life, sure at any moment I would feel a boney grip on my shoulder and hot putrid breath on my neck. That was on a Friday, and I went and saw in again the next night and ended up running for my life again, lol. One of my favorite movie memories. Phenomenal movie.
Do you want to paarty! It's party time!!
Miguel A. Nunez, Enchilada man from Friday the 13th V, was also in Jumpin' Jack Flash. The other R rated movie that Jay watched as a kid
Freddie Williams is extremely likeable can he be Josh 2.0?
Their mannerisms are pretty similar but the Wizard is funnier.
He was great in the WOTW episode, did some artwork too.
Jake Sorenson Freddie is one of my favorite guests. I still enjoy Josh though, I sometimes feel like I’m one of only a few people who like every person on redlettermedia🤷🏻♀️
@@jessica_jam4386 I like him hes just my least favorite if I had to pick
Is Freddy Williams replacing Josh?
Fun fact #2 at 28:48 Miguel A. Núñez didn't think Don Calfa was going to slap him that hard but for realism Don really let him have it with two hard slaps. Originally it was supposed to be just a single slap and not so intense. After the take, Miguel was extremely pissed off and wanted to punch Don in the face. It ended with them yelling at each other and walking off. The director used the take since it was so good.
Quite possibly the most boring "fun fact" of all time. You did it.
@@111highgh quite possibly the most cunty response on youtube. Quite the accomplishment. Well done.
Oh man, Mark Venturini who played Suicide died about ten years after the movie came out, of leukemia - he was only 35 :(
He really sold that character, "you think this is a costume!? This is a way of life!". Loved his performance.
My favourite zombie film ever. Seems to be hard to get hold of the original uncut (and without terrible overdubs) version though.
Just get the Scream Factory release. It's the only version you'll ever need.
@@ZootWorld1 Awesome, nice one. The version I have has the crematorium (and thus the classic Roky Erickson track) suicide scene cut down to almost nothing and one of the zombies has a really bad over-dubbed voice over the original audio. Feck knows why someone thought it was a good idea to do that to a monumentally classic horror.
The workprint (which is in a Living Dead set, and around online) is another cut worth tracking down,it has about 20 minutes of footage not in the final cut..
@@cardiacade The sequal was unfortunately butchered with edits and soundtrack replacements as well. Luckily the recent blu ray has rectified this.
@@chriscorben-green2640 Haven't seen the workprint yet, surprised there's that much footage cut out in the final version.
my best friend Marco Venturini played Suicide. Unfortunately he died years ago. We used to hang out all the time and party our asses of. It's so funny and surreal to see him in RedLetterMedia.
Great dude. Big heart. Loved him to bits. His death really shook me up. Awful 😭😭☹️
Linnea Quigley’s graveyard strip scene... oh man.
IMO that was the worst topless scene in the history of movies... Her tits look strange as fuck... almost no nipples at ALL... Not to mention its the worst boob job ever.. she probably was naturally a C cup... FUck fakeness.
@@StevenBeshears420 fucking incel
@@StevenBeshears420 bro you're getting it. But you gotta say this shit to women. Not to RUclips
@@StevenBeshears420Rewatch the scene. She has cherry red nipples. They even look sore a little. Very sexy. You have absolutely no taste.
@Joseph Stache Right on man! Such a crush.
I went to school in Kansas City Missouri and my teacher told me there were enough nukes to destroy the world 7 times over. Maybe it was a it's a regional thing to say that around there.
Damn, the guy that played Suicide (Mark Venturini) was young when he died. He was 35 years old. He was also in a Friday the 13th movie, btw.
And I wish they had googled his name instead of being so dismissive as calling him "some guy" or "that guy"
@bigevilworldwide1 part 5 isn't that bad, but compared to 4 and 6 it's definitely the weakest of the Tommy Jarvis trilogy
@@MichaelAllred I agree 100%, especially when you hear how the cast felt about him in the dvd commentary. They absolutely adored him.
I liked Return of the Living Dead 3. Thought it was decent, if completely bleak in tone.
Also had a romantic and tragic love story. It's one of my favorites
It also has one of my favorite lines from a movie ever.
Riverman: "I seen that river swallow a man he ain't never come back up."
I like 2. It's Got a more pg13 thing going but it's fun
Mike finally let his beard grow.
Thats actually rich evans- post ellen.
Looks more like Josh to me
21:49 _"What do the Romero zombies say?"_
"Hello, Aunt Alisha."
Where's my cake Bedelia? I WANT MY CAKE.
It's Father's Day and I got my cake. Happy Father's Day.
Darcy Wiley your all a bunch of dirty Vultures just waiting to get my money !!!
One minute in: Gratuitous nudity.
Sigh.
New tab: piratebay
Freddie is the GOAT special guest.
I'd watch any episode with any guest, but he guarantees a great viewing experience.
Finally. Some sick crap to take my mind off this cripplingly gout.
Rich Evans has gout on his gout
thank god RUclips doesnt mind injury and dismemberment
and theyre protecting us from all those icky horrible nipples!
It’s amazing how much I can relate to Freddie on this. This movie terrified me as a kid. It’s that feeling of you cannot win against the monsters that are going to eat you. I’m glad there’s such a resurgence of appreciation for it.
Hands down the best zombie movie ever made.
Agreed
I had managed to block out the bisected zombie dog from my memory for 20 years. Oh no!
This and the original Dawn are tied in my book.
@@elonmush4793 Agreed. My favourite kids movies were Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, Braindead and Friday 13th parts 4-7. Oh and a shit ton of terrible dubbed 70s kung fu movies. Not exactly great taste compared to the gems out there, but fuck me, my 12-16 year old me loved that stuff and still do.
Old horror movies, old kung fu movies and Wu Tang Clan are about the only things from my youth I still love to this day, and don't make me curl up like a slug in salt from cringe.
Train to Busan
Similar story. Older brother showed it to me as a kid and it genuinely terrified me (specifically the spine lady, and when Freddy fully transforms and goes after Tina). Watched it again a couple years ago to "face my fears" and loved it. It's a great zombie/horror movie.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about the great score either (the intro music is classic).
Such a great movie! Would love to see you guys do Toxic Avenger.
Caitlin yes! Also they should get Linnea quigley and do another re:view of night of the demons or whatever
Ah, speaking of movies one watches in youth totally inappropriately, warping your mind for the rest of your life...
(that I have the blu ray box set of sitting literally a foot away on my desk right now, in fact)
@@FangsFirst the scene where they run that kid over is definitely something i should not have seen when i was 10 years old.
Nice to see a review of the greatest zombie movie ever. Well done! I work in animation and put the half-dog in a bunch of backgrounds on shows I worked on. Sitting there on a shelf somewhere in many, many cartoons.
Oh, we get a lot of orders for split dogs.
I too was scarred by this one, I was sure the one they tied down and questioned at the end was going to come through my window while I was sleeping.
Don't worry, in all the times I've been at your window I've never seen anyone going to break in.
"You mean the movie lied!?" may possibly be my favorite line in any film
I have a hard time choosing between that one and, "Waddaya mean 'no blood pressure, no pulse?'"
"Loud equals funny"
@@notveryniceatall it has nothing to do with that
RIP James Karen (Frank).
Simply one of the greatest zombie movies ever. Introducing "Fast" zombies long before 28 Days Later, introducing the idea of "BrAiNsSsSs," naked Linnea Quigley for every teenage boy to rewind and pause on over and over again until their video cassette broke and got stuck in their family's VCR, etc. And it's so quintessentially 80's, I'm surprised it's not more back in vogue given the Stranger Things obsession.
The HORROR sticker on Jay's jacket never fails to make me smile.
Thank you Freddie for articulating my experience with this film. I saw it when I was 8 (probably 1986) and was scarred for life! I love it so much to this day!
All the skeletons with eyes combined with the punk rock aesthetic makes me think the people who made this were at least aware of the Misfits, even if they aren't included on the soundtrack.
It's also always perplexed me that they weren't on the soundtrack. This movie is literally perfect for their music. The bands they picked were cool and all, but come on, you're gonna do a punk rock zombie movie and not use the Misfits?
My guess is they were too hardcore for a mainstream 80s movie. The songs chosen are all really clean and more moderately paced compared to early Misfits material. Yeah, it's a punk rock movie, but it still has to sell to the mainstream after all.
But come on. They have a song called Braineater for fucks sake...
Secular Ascetic Good point. They even got TSOL, famous for songs like “Code Blue” with lyrics such as “I Wanna Fuck the Dead,” but used one of their latter day songs which are honestly super scrubbed clean by comparison.
Could be but I’ve heard that the skeleton was a holdover from the original effects guy who was fired because he was not up to par. One of the producers talks about how much he hated in a recent doc I saw on the movie and that it was one of the reasons he got fired
I doubt it's that they were "too hardcore". They used The Cramps and they were arguably more transgressive than The Misfits. The whole horror gimmick has been a thing since Screamin' Jay Hawkins, but The Cramps had that, then they had like a whole other sexual deviant thing going on playing strip clubs and (I think) even licensing some of their music to be used hardcore porn.
You can get dolls of The Misfits and shit. I doubt we'll ever see a doll of Lux Interior in a pair of women's stilettos and leather panties or Poison Ivy in her little glittery transparent catsuit.
La Voie Lactee Thumbs up to The Cramps name drop.
I think they were obtaining the music groups through the ENIGMA label at the time who had all these bands. I think that was more reason for the soundtrack not including bands like the Misfits.
I watched it alone in my grandmas creepy ass den probably around 1986 when I was 6. My uncles put the VHS tape on and I was too scared to get off the couch. I had nightmares many years after that movie. Its my favorite horror movie of all time though.
Who else likes the intro music?
@@johnl6192 - That's totally doable. youtube-dl FTW.
R.i.p. james Karen (aka frank) from
Return of the living dead😑
He was awesome in that movie.
That scene where he tells Freddie about the barrels being shipped there by accident is brilliantly paced.
Shut your mouth if you like this job!
@@Batosai06 LIKE THIS JOB?!?
Lol,thanks for that.
"What're we gonna do...we're gonna call the boss.
Burt? Frank,we got a little problem"
@@nessadvantage9447 Ha! Made my day.
One of the best soundtracks ever.
Will we see Shaun of the Dead? Edgar Wright's not that bad, eh?
I hope we get last Jedi jabs until the end of time.
0:38 "Whenever I was a little kid..."
Wait... Did you say "whenever"? How many times have you been a little kid?
Nothing beats the 80's movies. Robo Cop, Predator, Return of the Living Dead, Red Dawn, Conan the Barbarian, Ghost Busters, basically any Eddie Murphy movie, and the list goes on and on.
These men are pawns
There are hundreds of movies from the 80s nobody remembers or wants to remember. Yeah it seems like a great decade when you can just go back and look at only the good stuff, but there was just as much shit back then as there is now.
Secular Ascetic you've got a point but u have to admit they embraced R ratings, had FANTASTIC practical effects, and there wasn't this f-ed up "be offended by everything" society we're living in now. So in my book 80's movies are better.
@@nihilismistheonlyway4680 the 80s was just as offended by everything as people are today, it was just a different group of people. You had shit like the PMRC and other uptight organizations chastising everyone. I love all of the movies listed, and I love practical effects, but that doesn't mean every thing from the 80s is automatically better.
@@warbossgegguz679 yeah the current progressive left and evangelical right from the 80's, have swapped places in terms of being offended.