The Return of the Living Dead Page #4

Synopsis: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Director(s): Dan O'Bannon
Production: HBO Video
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
1985
91 min
2,228 Views


- It's not a bad question.

In that movie, they destroyed

the brain to kill them. Right?

The brain, right.

- What do doctors use to crack skulls with?

- Surgical drills.

Here, hold this.

Now listen to me very carefully.

Freddy, you'll open that door.

Come here, stand right over here.

Frank, right here.

When it comes out, brain it with the axe.

Jesus!

How am I gonna stop it from moaning?

What's the matter with you?

Come here. Get down there.

Stand by the door.

- It's gonna be all right, son.

- I don't think I can do this.

You damn well better.

You got us into this.

Jesus!

All right, Freddy. 22, right.

Be brave, Frank, goddamn it!

4, left.

10, right.

Get him off!

Coming.

Hold it!

- What the hell's going on, Burt?

- The brain!

I hit the f***ing brain!

Then do something else,

for goddamn-it-to-hell's sake.

Hold him down.

I can't stand this any longer.

- Sh*t!

- Hold him down now!

What are you gonna do?

- Be a man!

- I can't stand this, you son of a b*tch.

Hurry up!

I'll get him.

I got him. Get a rope!

- Where the f***'s a rope?

- I don't know. Get one. Hold him down!

- Hang on to the son of a b*tch!

- Christ, it ain't dying.

I thought you said

if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!

- It worked in the movie.

- It ain't working now.

- You mean the movie lied?

- Jesus.

- How are we gonna kill it?

- Maybe you can't. Maybe it won't die.

We just got to destroy it completely

until there's nothing left.

Acid.

- What kind of acid would dissolve a body?

- Sulfuric acid, maybe.

No, aqua regia, that's stronger.

But what if it doesn't dissolve everything,

like the bones?

Sh*t!

What are we gonna do?

Where are you going?

Sometimes Ernie Kaltenbrunner

works late on Fridays.

Who's Ernie Kaltenbrunner?

He's the embalmer

at the mortuary across the street.

- What the hell's he gonna do for us?

- His light's on. He's in.

Ernie's got a crematorium

across the street.

A crematorium, that's beautiful.

- Think you can get him to go along with it?

- I don't know. I've known him for 25 years.

He might do it out of friendship.

What the hell are you gonna tell him?

I mean, can you trust that bastard?

I don't think we have a choice.

How we gonna get this thing over there?

Give me the bone saw.

Why don't you put your clothes on?

The show's over.

What's the matter?

Does it make you nervous?

I'm hot.

- You are hot.

- Scram, wimp.

Nobody understands me, you know that?

I f***in' bust my ass for you guys,

and what do I get?

"You're spooky."

F*** you, man. F*** you all.

I like it spooky.

I got somethin' to say, you know?

What do you think this is all about?

You think this is a f***in' costume?

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Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.O'Bannon is best known for having written the screenplay for Alien, adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. He also contributed computer animation to Star Wars, worked on cult classics such as Dark Star, Heavy Metal, and Total Recall, and wrote and directed the horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead. more…

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