

The Return of the Living Dead
Film · 91 min · English · 1985
Directed by Dan O'Bannon
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Hemdale Film Corporation
- Country of origin
- United States
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-1985-FLM-907679
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