Return of the Living Dead III
Return of the Living Dead III
R | 01 October 1993 (USA)
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Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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CrawlerChunky

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Bea Swanson

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Curt

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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amesmonde

A top secret project reanimates dead and a grieving youth using his fathers work pass brings his girlfriend back to life after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.Director/producer Brian Yuzna gives plenty of screen time for the female lead zombie Julie played by Melinda Clarke who is brought back from the dead by the 2-4-5 Trioxin from the previous instalments. J. Trevor Edmond as Curt Reynolds is sorely underrated, overshadowed by Clarke's skimpy punk fashions and make up design. Writer John Penney's story recycles many of the best plot elements from its predecessors. Kent McCord as Col. John Reynolds is on his usual good form but the serious tone of this 3rd offering lacks the much of the goofy entertainment that made part one and two so cult and memorable. That said, it's packed with some good brain-munching zombies practical effects and gross make up.Although the handful of zombies are limited to the sewers and military base there's night on location scenes where Yuzna creates some atmosphere, notably the store segment and attack in the ally. Clarke tries to make the most of her after-death angst and Yuzna offers his staple twisted gore and fetishistic imagery but Return suffers from some of Yuzna's previous works short comings of clunky pacing and editing as oppose to the slicker execution of for example Society. Overall, the modern day Frankenstein meets Wes Craven's Deadly Friend and an urban Romero and Juliet works as a standalone, but as a third film of the Return of the Living Dead series it falls shy of expectations.

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TheLittleSongbird

The first Return of the Living Dead is by far the best of the series, being immensely entertaining and creepy with very little wrong. This second sequel, and the third in the series, is an improvement over the second, which relied on too much humour (most of which was very forced) and had very few scares, and certainly much better than the fourth and fifth films, both of which were horrendous, especially the latter.Return of the Living Dead Part III does have things wrong. It does start off poorly, with a lack of suspense, some cheesy and out of place comedy (though luckily the film is never too over-reliant on that, allowing the horror and scares to come out for much of the film) some of the worst of the limited budget and it felt like it had jumped to half-way through, and some of the story does feel and wear thin in a few places, doesn't quite sustain the running time, with a very clumsy final five minutes. The limited budget does sometimes show, in some cheap-looking sets and some shoddy effects. The zombies are also very underused.However, the film is very well shot and atmospherically lit, the zombie make-up is some of the best of the entire series and most of the special effects are good. The music is haunting and catchy, with a lovingly nostalgic 80s vibe that never felt dated or cheesily over the top. The scripting is not too bad, it is nowhere near as strained as the second film's and treats its Romeo and Juliet-like story to an enjoyably dark and moving effect if sometimes taking things a little too seriously. While the execution of the story is not perfect, it doesn't try too hard to be funny and it's nowhere near as dull or as incoherent as the succeeding two sequels.It is by far the darkest and most original of the series, it does offer some genuine scares and emotional impact, the gore is suitably harrowing and the last thirty minutes is mostly enjoyably over-the-top and poignantly tragic until the clumsy final five minutes. People will argue that it is nothing like the first two, and that is one of the main reasons why it is the most polarising of the five films and understandably, I for one didn't have a problem with it.The love story is handled with a good deal of emotion and doesn't get too sappy, saccharine or silly. The zombies are underused, but when they do appear they look great and have a real sense of fun and menace, while the characters are some of the more likable and less annoying of the series, Julie is a very interesting character and easy to root for. The direction is competent, and the acting is pretty good, Sarah Douglas chews the scenery is an enormously fun way (and this is coming from a person who is not a huge fan of that kind of acting) and Mindy Clarke is excellent as Julie.All in all, not perfect or great but pretty decent and by far the best of the sequels. 6/10 Bethany Cox

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Phil Hubbs

The third outing in this undead franchise is still just about hanging in there in terms of a decent horror film that will keep you hooked. This film unfortunately has taken the plunge into the deep dark realms of the straight to DVD which does give you a bad feeling. But fear not as despite the mawkish plot, bad acting and obvious reused sets the second half of the film gets back on track with plenty of zombie action. The plot is the downfall really, its a bit wet and sloppy. A cringeworthy Romeo and Juliet type love story between two young teens and yet more toxic stuff. The young girl gets killed in a motorbike accident (typical reckless kids huh) and is reanimated by her boyfriend using this toxic stuff in a military base. Oh yeah the boys dad runs this military base where they are using the toxic stuff to animate the dead for dubious purposes...as you do.It is important to note that this is the first film in the series that takes itself seriously and becomes more of an outright horror leaving out the comedy aspect, plus it moves away from the first two films and tries to be a stand alone feature. Whether that's the right way to go I'm not so sure as the horror comedy aspect was the best part of the original films but this still has some really nice ideas.Makeup effects by the wizard Steve Johnson saves this film from the abyss of crapola with some of the best creepy looking undead makeup in the whole franchise. His dark imagination combined with the high gross-out factor is uber cool as Johnson really gets to create anything he can think of. I admittedly did like the kinky 'Hellraiser-esque/fetish' look for the young undead female teen. Yeah call me a pervert but there's clearly a nice BDSM vibe going on there which is sick yet alluring at the same time.Think of 'Evil Dead: Army of Darkness' but even more twisted and gruesome and you will get an idea of what the crazy undead hordes look like. In short this film isn't great up until the last 30min or so, then everything breaks loose and kicks ass nicely.6/10

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evanpenkethman

when i was around ten, i stopped going outside at night for a few years after seeing this movie. my parents didn't like it (the movie). the gore is classic, and river man with the spine thing is classic. short review, short movie. would watch it again. the returns from the eighties were funny and campy as can be, but with the dawn of the nineties, the gore got better, and the whole teenage angst thing took total hold of the series. this film is the total product of the nirvana, my so called life generation that spawned so many great bad films....i like bad films mind you so...all in all, super fun, super sexy, and contains broken glass breast implants. if you skipped this one its probably available somewhere.

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