{"id":1516,"date":"2024-08-03T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:00:45","slug":"return-of-the-living-dead-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/03\/return-of-the-living-dead-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Living Dead 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> (1993)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trimark\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 97 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (horror violence and gore, language, nudity, sex)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Brian Yuzna\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: John Penney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Barry Goldberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Gerry Lively\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 29, 1993 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: J. Trevor Edmond, Mindy Clarke, Kent McCord, Sarah Douglas, James T. Callahan, Basil Wallace, Mike Moroff, Fabio Urena, Pia Reyes, Sal Lopez, Dana Lee, Billy Kane, Anthony Hickox.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $54,207 (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> never played theatrically here in Philadelphia. I would have known and been all over it. No matter how old I get, I will never pass up a horror sequel, regardless of quality. I knew it was coming out as I saw the trailer before Warlock: The Armageddon at a pre-release screening in September \u201993. I also saw the trailer for Death Wish V: The Face of Death which hit theaters the following January for a one-week run. I didn\u2019t see Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> until it played on cable later in \u201994. I thought it would be horrible, but it was actually pretty good. It\u2019s better than Return of the Living Dead Part II, a statement I continue to stand by to this day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s different from the previous entries in that it no longer has a comedic tone. It\u2019s more of a straight-up horror flick with significantly more gore than the previous installment. Also, this is the first ROTLD movie in which the zombie infection is spread through biting as well as exposure to Trioxin. They still want to eat brains through.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong>, a young couple discovers that there is fate worse than death when one of them uses Trioxin to bring the other back to life after a fatal motorcycle accident. It all starts when Curt (Edmond, Pumpkinhead II) and Julie (Clarke, TV\u2019s Nikita) sneak onto the military base where Curt\u2019s father, Colonel Reynolds (McCord, Adam-12), is overseeing a project that involves using Trioxin to turn corpses into super-soldiers. They watch in horror as the test goes horribly wrong with fatal results. Reynolds is immediately removed and reassigned to Oklahoma City, something that doesn\u2019t go over well with his son. Refusing to move yet again, he storms out with Julie and they hop on his bike to run away together. That\u2019s when they get into an accident that kills Julie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A distraught Curt returns to the facility (he still has the ID card he stole from his dad) and uses the Trioxin to bring her back. How he goes unnoticed by all the armed soldiers on the base is anybody\u2019s guess. While successful in his efforts to reanimate his dead girlfriend, the side effects prove to be a real ordeal. Seemingly normal at first, it soon becomes clear Julie is anything but. For one thing, when she says she\u2019s hungry, it\u2019s not for food. She craves human brains. A run-in with a Mexican gang in a bodega quickly turns bloody. Meanwhile, Reynolds leads the operation to capture Julie and bring her in before she spreads the zombie virus.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As if there isn\u2019t enough going on in Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong>, there\u2019s also a villain in the form of Lt. Colonel Sinclair (Douglas, Superman II) who has different ideas of how to weaponize the living dead. It\u2019s neither pretty nor humane. As always, the action takes place over the course of a single night. As it progresses, Julie\u2019s condition worsens to the point where she gives herself multiple piercings all over her body in hopes that the pain will curb her appetite for humans. This will surely please the fetishists in the audience. I\u2019m not into that sort of thing myself but I have to admit Julie looks sexy dangerous hot with all those spikes and nails sticking out of her flesh. It gives Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> a punk-like edge.<\/p>\n

\u00a0While nowhere near as awesome as the movie that started it all, Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> is a damn good horror flick. It has a decent amount of gore and splatter. The makeup effects are quite good. The blood-soaked finale is cool! It\u2019s considered a horror movie but it\u2019s really a love story at heart. It helps greatly that Edmond and Clarke, known to CSI fans as \u201cLady Heather\u201d, make a likable couple. The acting is pretty good for this movie\u2019s type. Basil Wallace, better known to B-movie fans as Screwface in the Steven Seagal actioner Marked for Death, plays a vagrant called Riverman. He helps our heroes out of a tight spot (on the infamous 6th<\/sup> Street Viaduct in L.A.) at a great cost to himself. I like his character. Douglas specializes in playing cold, cruel villains. Besides Superman II, she did the same in Conan the Destroyer, Solarbabies and The Return of Swamp Thing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s a shame Trimark wasn\u2019t around very long (they merged with Lions Gate in 2000). They released the kinds of movies that defined my teen years. I saw them as the heir to the throne vacated by New World Pictures. In fact, they picked up Warlock, one of NW\u2019s last movies, for distribution after they folded in \u201989. They also released Leprechaun (and its sequels), Death Wish V and The Stoned Age. Return of the Living Dead 3<\/strong> is one of their best movies. It\u2019s just a campy fun B-level horror flick that puts many of today\u2019s scary movies to shame.\"\"<\/p>\n

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