Return of the Living Dead 3
Year: 1993
Director: Brian Yuzna
Written by: John Penney
Threat: Zombies
Weapon of Choice: Gun
Based upon: None
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Return of the Living Dead 3Year: 1993 Director: Brian Yuzna Written by: John Penney Threat: Zombies Weapon of Choice: Gun Based upon: None IMDb page: |
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Other movies in this series:
The Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead Part II
The tyranist's thoughts
I like Brian Yuzna. He's done some interesting things over the years and he's one
of the Lovecraftian crowd. His movies are rarely top-notch, but they are often
entertaining. But I didn't know he directed this until after I'd rented it. I rented it
because Melinda Clarke is in it. I've enjoyed her turns on C.S.I. and after
finally seeing her as Nandi in a Firefly episode, I had to rent this one and
complete (at least temporarily) the series.
There's this rebellious son of a general and his girlfriend and they decide to sneak
onto his father's base one night. Naturally, this happens to be the base on which
some of the goo that turns people to zombies is stored. They realize what they've
seen, but on the way home get in a wreck that leaves the girlfriend dead. What
would any horny young man do, but zombify his girlfriend so that he didn't lose her.
Of course, when she starts taking body piercing to a whole new level, it gets a little
weird even for me.
This turns out to be a pretty standard entry in the series. They try to focus on a
couple characters a little closer to make this more of a love story, but it doesn't
really work that way. Of course, that may just be my prejudice against loving the
walking dead getting in my way.
The script is adequate and the effects mostly decent. The cast manages even
the scenes that just don't make much sense. In the end, I found myself wishing this
had been as good as the first movie and being disappointed. Yes, Melinda Clarke
is in it, but no, that doesn't make it anything special.
If you like the series, it's worth seeing, but there probably isn't any other reason you
should bother. Unfortunately, I think this is the easiest entry in the series to find. Just
trust me that you would rather see the others.
Posted: January 24, 2006
Total Skulls: 10
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| Sequel setup | |
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | |
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| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | |
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| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | |
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| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | |
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| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |