Living Dead marathon on Sci-Fi

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Return of the Living Dead 3: Rave to Grave (Jenny Mollen, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick). 2005 - A college student distills a ghoulish party drug from a compound used to create brain-hungry zombies.

Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis (Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe). 2005 - While trying to rescue their captive friend, teens release a brain-eating zombie at a sinister research facility.

You know, it just doesn't get much better than this.

Quality TV programming for a Saturday afternoon!!!
 
I can't stand watching flesh get ripped off someones neck like that, no matter how fake it looks. Makes me feel a little week... I probably won't check this thread anymore.
 
Ok I thought I was going to be ok when those teenage boys started to street fight with the zombies but then another got his scalp bit off and that just did it in for me.

They are showing 2 brand new for sci fi only, 'Return of the Living Dead' movies if anyone else wants to know which ones they are.
 
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Mad D said:
Ok I thought I was going to be ok when those teenage boys started to street fight with the zombies but then another got his scalp bit off and that just did it in for me.

They are showing 2 brand new for sci fi only, 'Return of the Living Dead' movies if anyone else wants to know which ones they are.
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I hate that stuff! Its gross
 
The ROLTD movies are similar to the Howling, Exorcist, Predator, TX Chainsaw Massacre franchises in that the copyright owners sold the names and every single one of the sequels were putrid. That happens with many movie franchises (Star Wars, Batman, Superman), but it's especially easy to ruin the legacy of horror films because even the ones that earnestly try to be scary can be funny.

I saw the first ROTLD in summer 85 at the theater. It actually "outgrossed" the other films for a short time after its release. It was a feat for a B zombie movie to do that well before the current spate of them in the 2000s.
 
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It especially easy to ruin the legacy of horror films because even the ones that earnestly try to be scary can be funny.
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I see what your talking about Gargy. Especially in the new ROTLD movies that they premired tonight. Like street fighting I mentioned above (when the group of teenaged boys ran out of ammo, they were like ''lets do this'' and they started to beat down the zombies with boxing and martial arts) and when in the 5th movie when the only surviving zombie tries to hitchike during the daytime at the end of the movie (yeh I gave it away but who cares, it was a crappy sci fi made movie). I felt like I was watching an action/comedy full of gore than a ROTLD movie.

Tremors would be another example. The first 2 movies were full of suspence. The next couple movies and the TV show ran out of ways to recapture that suspence so they were more action based.
 
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Okay, following this silly thread, I actually taped this "marathon" (yes, I keep an old VCR around just for that purpose) and started to watch one.

Good lord. Its just awful. Not fun awful either. Just boring drab stupid awful in true SciFi channel fashion. The type of awful that makes you just want to turn it off and leave ebcuase there is absolutley nothing there. The original ROTLD movie which I seem to recall being campy and stupid was a positive work of art compared to these things.

Still have a hard time comprehending the garbage the sci fi channle turns out. Is there no cutting room? Does nobody try to watch these things before releasing them with their name and logo attached? In any case, calling this thing a zombie movie is kind of like calling...well, its early and I can't think of an absurd enough comparison off the top of my head. Suffice it to say that it sucks and has no real reason to exist. There is not a doubt in my mind that I could do far far better if you gave me their obviously tiny budget with nothing more than rewriting the entire script from line 1 and demanding that my "actors" actually act.
 
Aw, come on Bricklayer...

"Um, brains."

Gotta love that part.

;)

I'll admit, even I - as someone who totally adores really BAD sci-fi - found these movies to be a little more than I could stomach. I do recommend Shawn of the Living Dead, however, if you've never seen it. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but for a low budget flick, it has great fun making fun of the other LD flicks.
 
I clicked on this thread because I must be tired and for some reason I thought it said "Evil Dead Marathon".

Now there's an entertaining set of films.
 
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