The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

1985 · 91 min · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

Directed by Dan O'Bannon. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews and Miguel A. Núñez Jr..

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