Day of the Dead + The Return of the Living Dead (80s Horror Memories Ep. 30) 

Return of the Living Dead is genuinely probably my favorite zombie movie of all time. I could easily put it in at any point and be happy.

ROTLD is hands down one of my favorite horror comedies. Such a great premise with hysterical performances and memorable lines. 😂

There will never be another era for horror like the 80's

"Come in, dispatch. Send... more... paramedics."

As a kid I know we rented Return of the living Dead 1000 times! My wife had no idea it existed, so imagine the joy I felt when she saw it for the first time. She instantly fell in love! I can quote this movie scene for scene!

When I was in 2nd grade in the 80s, I remember an older kid on my school bus told me that Return of the Living Dead was based on a true story. Plus he told me this right as we were driving by the cemetery a few hundred yards down the road from my house. So... That was my nightmare fuel for the rest of the school year. 😂

I love of these 1985 zombie movies. "DAY" had some awesome zombie effects, death scenes, and great characters, especially Rhodes. "RETURN" had memorable quotes, funny quotes, and great dark humor.

I absolutely love these films. I watched the Dead trilogy spending weekends with my dad. He did not bother with monitoring my consumption, so I watched the original Dead Trilogy by the time I was 9 or 10 years old. Mix in with that Life Force, Night of the Creeps, and Prince of Darkness. So glad to see this video, fun and terrific content. Thanks!

80s was a spectacular time for horror 😎

ROTLD 2 still is and always will be my favorite and I'll die on this mountain.

Fun fact: George Romero was originally considered as a director for a Resident Evil movie adaptation but nothing came of it. God damn it, Capcom!

"I'M RUNNING THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN! AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE F@%& YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!"

Return is more iconic and rewatchable

I watched ROTLD one Halloween night while home by myself when I was a kid. Never been so terrified! ‘Born In East LA’ was playing on another channel and I kept flipping over to it whenever I got too scared 🤣 Spent the rest of my life trying to find another movie that could scare me as bad as that movie did that night. Definitely shaped my life. Even my taste in music. Still to this day The Cramps are one of my favorite bands. Named one of my children after Lux Interior.

Amazing year for horror and science fiction

Return Of The Living Dead 🧟‍♂️ Classic Awesome 😎👍

Several years ago, a newer coworker of mine was working alone in our backup call center at work while I was working in our regular offices. At times when over at that building, it would usually be just myself alone on the third floor with only the security guard down at the main entrance. He texted me and mentioned how the thought it was creepy over there by himself. That's when James Karen's talk at the beginning of Return of the Living Dead popped in my head, and I told him I was creeped out over there at times because of the bodies in the basement. Modifying James Karen's speech from the movie, I told him that the building used to belong to the army (hence why there was a chain link fence around it and other features). I told him that there'd been a spill of a chemical the army had been testing at OSU that had reanimated some corpses and that the bodies had been put in containers in the basement of the building to keep hidden, and when the army moved out and sold the building to our company, the containers had been left behind. I then told him that we weren't supposed to talk about it, indicating that since I'd been with the company several years, I'd found out about it. While I was texting him all this, I was also texting another coworker who was also friends with the guy before he'd started with the company, telling her "If Paul starts asking about bodies in the basement over at the other building, just tell him we're not supposed to be talking about it." So, on his morning break, my newer coworker went exploring, finding out that not only were there no bodies but that there was no basement and that the army never owned our building.

These 2 movies are my absolute favorite movies ever! I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching a bootleg copy of Return over and over again. Know it word for word.

Linnea Quigley sent me to early puberty as well. So amazing to hear it happened to someone else as well! I blame her for ending my childhood too soon ❤

Without a doubt, these are two of the greatest zombie films of al time,,, for vastly different reasons. Yet both were very nihilistic.

As a horror filmmaker, I know some of the people involved in these films. Howard Hoops Berger, John Amplas, Lori Cardille, Clu Gulager, Don Calfa. I've been in a film with James Karen. And the granddaughter of Judeth O'Dea illustrated the cover of my zombie book. Zombie fiction has been in my DNA since I was 7 years old and the video for Michael Jackson's Thriller came out. The making of documentary for that video is what made me want to be a filmmaker. Day of the Dead is my favorite zombie movie, with Return of the Living Dead being a close second.

Wow! Great episode! You're totally on it with regard to these movies being different sides to the same coin. One has comedic tone while the other is colored with a complete sense of dread/despair. Looking forward to the dive into 1986! Cheers!

The Return of the Living Dead is my favorite zombie movie.

Return of the living dead is the best zombie movie of all time

Rotld is my all time favorite zombie movie, showedit to my wife and she loves it, and bub is the goat

Good video!! Can remember growing up during the 1960s-1970s that zombies were my FAVORITE unnatural creature - always thought that being killed by a zombie was the worst possible way to die. Vampires...OK. Werewolves...pretty awesome...but Zombies!!! Something about being torn apart got your attention better than getting the blood sucked out of you. Can also remember that any movie dealing with zombies, I was there begging my mom to take me to see AND the movies were far and in between back in those days so APPRECIATED them better no matter if the movie was good/bad. Now a days, Zombies....OK but still a terrible way to die. Also, when "Night of the Living Dead" came out I was 5 years old and can still remember people saying how that movie literally gave them nightmares, for there was really nothing to compare it with back then. Got to visit the filming locations of "Night" in Evans City, PA, a few years ago: the cemetery, grave site, farmhouse, and downtown where there are historical plaques honoring the film and also to the movie, "The Crazies". Anyway, LOVE these 2 movies that were covered in this video but think I like "RETURN" better for it is just bonkers - watch that movie every October.

I wish I was a teenager in the 80s sometimes. These videos are tailor made

I have a particular love for both of these films. But even within that bracket,I REALLY love Return of the Living Dead. That sh*t just works for me.

I live an hour away from Pittsburgh and have been to Monroeville many times. I saw NotLD when I was very young and I love it but RotLD is one of my favorite movies of all time.

That dream sequence is amazing.

“Watch you tongue boy if like this job!” “Like this job?!” Always kills me 🔥😂

Both are great in their own ways.

Man i like the widescreen aspect ratio of Day of the dead footage.

Yeah I had a cool dad too watched way before I should have. Lol. Love it

Scott Stap is the greatest of all time!

I love Day of the Dead.

2 of the very best🤘 Manythnx

I agree. I watched Day of the Dead more than the other two. And I've watch Night of the Living Dead many times since I saw it at 8yrs old with my mom. Great film! As for Return of the Living Dead...that movie us just a really great damn time!! 😆 🤣 ❤️

His face when he says you people make me sick😂

You and I have a lot in common, growing up. There were seven of us and cable, a video store that would rent a 10 year old whatever we grabbed. Good times

I Have Return Of The Living Dead And It's Sequels On DVD And The Day Of The Dead On DVD These Movies To Me Is Like A Big Rollercoaster Of Blood, Gore, Boobs And Lots And Lots Of Zombie Killing Fun Oh What A Ride.

Not a bad question Burt

Have return on Blu Ray and day of the dead on DVD The collectors edition DVD two excellent zombie movies to watch on a Friday or Saturday night party time

Romero was actually very critical of the walking dead.

Day of the dead was the first zombie movie I ever saw and it scared the S outta me. Then I saw return next and that one got me too! After that I hunt down the rest of the Romero movies

i remember watching the debut of Naked Souls like yesterday, my first time seeing Pamela topless

Has to be the 60s - 80s Zombie movies that i remember and love the best, i started with NOTLD original, aged 8, i loved black and white movies as at the time (1990) my folks could only afford a black and white tv lol. I remember watching Dawn of the Dead in black and white, and Day of the Dead, the return of the living dead was the first one i watched in full color and was blown away by home much the genre changed over that 15-20 years (from NOTLD - The return) but i really dont like running zombies - thanks Mr Snyder.....

DAY I loved cause I was in my phase of watching highly acclaimed movies. I was in bed laptop on my chest there was still light peeking in through the window. When it was done it was completely dark. I didn't get up so my entire house was dark. Idk it just hit me differently. "Return" I love cause of course the campiness but the scene with the one half zombie strapped to the table. "I can feel myself rotting" idk why but that was so fucking scary to me.

Back then i was a scary kid. i mean horror movies i liked,some.But they scared me. I remember going to the movies to see something in 1985. While waiting i saw the poster of 'Return of the living dead' with the drawn zombies on it. i already knew, "Nope! not for me." About a year later we were at my friends house for a sleepover. Were flipping channels and on HBO it said "Coming up next. The Return of the living dead". Every kid in the room was like "YEAH". I said "no" so i spent the next 2 hrs in another room waiting for it to be over. LOL I eventually saw it like 3 years later after I saw part 2 which was basically a zombie movie made by Disney. Return of the living dead is my favorite zombie movie of all time.

Til this day I still squint my eyes when trash pops up

I've said this in other comment sections but, me and my next door neighbor had two albums between us. We would play G.I. Joes & listen to The Beastie Boys (his album) & The Return Of The Living Dead (my album). My mom bought me the picture disk, little did she know that the other side of the disk had Linea's (Trash) boobs. My record disappeared about 6 months later...

The villain of Day of the Dead is Dr. Logan not Captain Rhodes. He deliberately conducts experiments on the dead military personnel (who are taking almost all of the physical risks for what amounts to nothing) as well as feeding them to his exotic pet, yet for some reason the movie wants you to sympathize with him.

ROTLD has been my favorite Z-flick, love at first watch. Best zombie ever: Tar Man Hottest Zombie Ever: Trash Bert & Ernie! One liners out the wazoo. So much more Had a spat with my little brother because he still believed in Spiderman at ten years old. So I told him, ok, now I'm gonna show you what's going on in the real world, so I fired up the VCR. Of course that intro, based on real events(sorry not verbatim) helped me out. He was absolutely horrified after it was over, I told him the zombies were only a few days away from us, he ran around frantically for close to a week wondering why nobody cared. What did you learn little brother? Sucks that the genre is oversaturated these days, I can't get into it anymore thanks to the Walking Dead. Was a fan since the mid 70's after watching Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things as a wee pup on late night TV, but it's played out these days, & that breaks my heart.

It said it day of the dead was late George Romero favorite zombie

The bad thing about it no matter how hard they try to recreate a good old 80's horror movie they can't that was the era that will stand up to the times I miss the 80's when things were simpler and in the 80's I was told by people they miss the 50's cause that was a simpler time i guess from here on out you won't hear that again about the years past that sad so sad 😢

Damn fine year.

Y'all should put all the trivia in a pinned comment for people that listen at work. When at work, I catch glances of the video but I'm constantly missing the trivia portions.

Besides Frankenstein, this franchise is one of the most important in film❤😂 throw out social relevance, this is the story of what happens to the damned.😂

I cannot understand how some people see Day of the Dead as the weakest of the three. I think it’s the strongest of the three.

_Day of the Dead_ isn't the weakest of the trilogy, but the _strongest!_ My source for that claim had the most unimpeachable grounds for such a pronouncement, none other than George Romero himself, who called it his favorite of those films. Among it's memorable characters is one of the maddest of all mad scientists in Dr. "Frankenstein'' Logan (he feeds his "domesticated" zombies human entrails from a bucket), one of the most dangerously psychotic of all villains in Captain Rhodes, the most strangely sympathetic and even loveable of all zombies in Bub, and Dr. Sarah Bowman, who would be a tough-to-the-end final girl, were this a slasher film.

when all the kids in the neighborhood would take out our toy guns in the mid/late 80s and played return of the living or night of the living dead or some other type of 80s movie i would always pick the role of Captain Rhodes for obvious reasons.

In a weird way, I always thought Return of the Living Dead had a lot of similarities with Robocop. Robocop had great gore, some zany humor and goofy antics, but it was actually a very tragic movie. Return of the Living Dead also has gore, silliness and campy fun, but it's a pretty bleak movie where things just get worse and worse.

Dawn of the Dead, a biting satire of consumerism! Get your 8th copy of it with the Ultra Special Anniversary 4K Edition with 10 seconds of never before seen footage and commentary by the key grip!!

Yeah, sorry Creed fans...both of you. I've always loved Day of the Dead. It is certainly the bleakest of the first three films (and I'd argue the bleakest of all subsequent movies). It had no humor, no send-ups, no satire. It was dark social commentary, and essentially said "Humanity sucks, we are the monsters, the zombie hordes are just more honest about it."

A few years back my then 13 yr old son stayed over at his grandmothers house. When i picked him up he said "i watched Return of the living dead". I said "Well, youre a man now because you've seen nudity." LOL

[9:30] OMG, HE HAS DR CHALLIS ON HIS SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE TOM ATKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm looking for that Scott Stapp negative fan comment 😂

I'm probably in the minority, but I really enjoyed Land of the Dead even more than Day.

❤ Return of the Living Dead is Awesome and Remake of Day of the Dead I like more,.. Day of the Dead 2: Contagion, faster pace than the original. I love both Dawn of the Dead, original and remake. And Night of the living dead from 1967ish is Still by far The Best and favorite.❤

I'm 37 now and just watched rotld for the first time about 4 years ago,I'm strongly disappointed in myself 😂

I don't think Creed became big until 2000, and they were awesome

Fresh zombies usually have soft cold delicate dead hands.

ROTLD The 1st film to scare the living shit outtve me as a youngin

The Return of the Living Dead is the most nihilistic comedy ever made, I felt depressed after first watching it. Unlike the Romero movies there is no hope.

These older movies will always age better because of the practical effects and not cg crap that ages worse as 4-8k tvs take over

Linnea Quigley's character of Trash is anything but clichéd.

Leak? These never leak. Made by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Good score, gruesome effects, Bub is cool, but not a very good movie imho

Such a shame we still haven't got a proper gory action big budget zombie film. We got world war z but it wasn't that gory or proper slow zombie's and i found it a bit boring but it was an ok film but wasn't what i wanted to see from a zombie film it was lacking in atmosphere eeriness jumpscares blood and guts gory scenes and zombie music score

Return did have one of the best soundtrack, other than that I just couldn't get into it, day seemed too much like an Italian horror,

I don't know what happened to Romero when he got to his second trilogy. Those movies suck compared to the first three. Especially the third one, where you watch warring Irish clans and forget you're watching a zombie movie. lol

All I know is I'm skrewed if a z apocalypse breaks out...I'm not surviving the initial onslaught...lol...I'm eaten quick or something stupid like an accident an bam! I'm a z now...I'd rather be a z in Return I think...

I've got no problem with you talking smack about Creed. They were a joke.

Creed was early 00s, not 90s. Us GenXers would have eaten Creed alive.

Really liked this video but super tacky and boring to say "Creed is corney" ..... CREED is selling out their summer tour already. So the " 1 Scott Stapp fan" dig makes no sense. You already scream that you are a beta male liberal hipster, so please don't rub it in anymore

Diversity equity and inclusion killed creativity like it kills everything it's applied to.