Film & 40s: Film & 40s: The Return of the Living Dead

Fun movie. Is Bert/Burt and Ernie a Sesame Street homage?

This is one of the few horror flicks that's ever truly scared me, and it's the only one in the zombie genre that succeeds... And it's partially a comedy.

I saw this clearly way too young and, you know, 28 Days Later hadn't come out or anything so I think the concept of running zombies was something else. I distinctly recall being calm while watching it with my friend and not finding it that scary until I had to go home. Running zombies felt like cheating so I raaaaan as fast as I could. To this day I've only seen it once and I still remember scenes and lines from it.

EDIT: Oh right, Ernie was clearly a Nazi in this movie, right?

Covering myself in tar in anticipation!

as a zombaholic I think this is one of the best zombie films out there

More...Brains?

I believe I've seen bits and pieces throughout the years because this was usually playing in bars during halloween, good to finally see the full film!

This was great, both the movie and commentary.

I'm kinda wondering what the others end up picking. Ghostbusters would be an obvious pick for Vinny. As for Dan, I'm gonna say...Aracnophobia, Army of Darkness, Event Horizon, Gremlins 2 or Killer Klowns. Somehow I feel like Abby would probably pick something more recent, like Get Out or Witch. My hope is that all the movies would be from the 80/90's, really.

@vibratingdonkey: I saw it when it was broadcast on SVT years and years ago, but ever since then I don't think I've ever seen it pop up.

@glots said:

It's my secret dream that Abby picks You're Next. It would be such a hoot.

Please do The Blair Witch Project or one of the Paranormal Activity movies.

Film & 40s is my favorite thing on Giant Bomb. Thank you for doing more of these!

This is my new favorite zombie movie. Thanks guys!

I literally just watched this again 2 weeks ago.As this may be one of my all time favorite movies I'll be more then happy to watch it for the 100th time. Also This movie is streaming on Amazon Prime.

My gf and I had a blast with this last night, thanks for the pick Alex!

This was great!

Honestly, yes please! You're Next is such an underlooked gem of the 2010's.

@glots: I hope Alex finds that copy of The Blob... or was it called The Stuff. Ok I think those are two different movies. But which ever one Alex mentioned a few Beastcasts ago.

This was my first Film & 40s. Luckily this film is available to me on Netflix. It was great listening to there reactions in real-time. Took a bit of faffing about to get the film and podcast synced up and I made the rooky mistake of pausing the film at one point and not the podcast, but apart from my school boy errors this was great. I'll be checking the other podcasts out.

Each one of them (unless I completely misunderstood) is picking a movie and Alex chose this one, so The Blob remake is probably a no-go. That would be great though...I can almost picture all the "EWWWS!" that would be heard. The Fly would be another good candidate for grossness.

There's my Saturday night plans !! Thanks

I somehow never got around to watching this one until now, it was a both a good movie and a good F&40s. Looking forward to the rest of the month now!

I love Film and 40s. I am down to watch nearly anything you guys do these for!

Monster Squad is on Prime right now, just sayin’.

Oh it's such fun.

Perhaps upon rewatching it I'll resolve the plot hole of why that one guy is looking for the magic when he's Dwight in the middle of it.

I can't believe they didn't pick up on the Bert/Ernie thing. Laughed my drunken arse off when I realised it.

I'm a very late to the Party horror fan so this will be a great series for me to catch up I think. This was a great start, and I can't wait to see what others have picked.

Hoping for Hereditary, which I feel would be an AMAZING Film and Forties.

I'm very excited to find the time to watch & listen. Surely it will happen soon...

excellent

I made a horror movie schedule for this month and I haven't been on the site in a couple days, so I didn't know what was coming up. Well, of course I jump on today and I find out they did a Film&40's on the same movie I watched and even did it on the same day I watched it. I guess I just have to watch Return Of The Living Dead again, but I'm perfectly alright with that. Also, here's my schedule for the month:

@thegreatpaulio: hah, I was coming to post about that. They were friends for over 25 years too.

One of my all time favourites. Really, really enjoyed this, great choice Alex

Never seen this before, but really enjoyed it! But that rotting zombie REALLY freaks me out, one of the only movie things that actually frightens me.

"There are bones in a heart?" Holy fuck.

I usually hate movies from the 80's but this was a lot of fun!

I adore this movie! It is just so over the top and wonderful.

I do have trouble going back to this movie knowing that Brian Peck (Scuz) is a pedophile especially given how involved he has been with some of the home video re-releases.

I love the haphazard storage of potentially world ending materials that this plot relies on. The effects are great, making up for the poor plot and overacting, I'll give it a pass because its charmingly 80's. A great movie to clown on and get drunk to, love this feature.

Nice one

I love this movie, and got about 20 minutes into this podcast before I decided to commit to watching the movie alongside it. This was, in fact, my first Film & 40s. Incidentally, the movie is available on Amazon Prime streaming. I had a hell of a time trying to sync up from the web player, in part because of the extremely low resolution scrubbing, and wound up playing the podcast from my phone with an earbud in one ear. Hopefully the redesign has a more full-featured player.

I think the crew did a great job on this, thanks to Alex for bringing it up.

By the way, did you notice that the owner of the medical supply and the mortician were named Bert and Ernie?

If they don't do John Carpenter's The Thing I'm going to riot.

The director of this was one of the co-writers on Alien. Dan O'Bannon.

About to watch even though i'm a pussy when it comes to horror, might have seen it as a child if it ends up on a helicopter on top of a shopping mall

You're thinking of Dawn of the Dead. The 1970s version, not the Zack Snyder remake.

I find the exact opposite - I find them much more interesting when I _haven't_ seen the movie before.

Two of the main characters are great friends that are named Bert and Ernie.

I love Return of the Living Dead. One of the best Zombie films of the 1980's

@thegreatpaulio: Shhh, we don't talk about that.

Yes!!!

The UK Special Edition DVD is a different framerate, making the audio continually go out of sync.

Upping the tempo by 4.176% seems to do the trick.
Audacity
Encoder for exporting mp3s
Download mp3>Open in Audacity>Effect>Change Tempo...>File>Export Audio...as 128kb/s mp3

There also seems to be a scene missing that's on the US blu-ray, at some point before the barrel springs a leak. So you need to resync after that.

wow I didn't expect this movie to be kind of great actually.

So, I knew I recognized that guy who plays Spider, but I couldn't remember from where. He was in Friday the 13th A New Beginning (the 5th one- which interestingly he did the same year as this movie), and more importantly he was in Street Fighter The Movie as Dee Jay!

Also fun fact: he is still working in the movie biz.