"The Return of the Living Dead" Enjoy the momentum of Dan O'Bannon's directorial debut and the old-fashioned advertising.

"The Return of the Living Dead" synopsis

Freddy works at a medical company in Kentucky, USA, and learns from his boss Frank that Dawn of the Dead are being stored in the company's warehouse due to a mistake by the US military. The two of them are exposed to the gas from the drum containing Zombie, and they learn that the gas is a substance that turns people exposed to it into Dawn of the Dead, but...

Do you know what a "freak show" is?

Titles such as ``Snake Girl'' and ``Octopus Girl'' are posted on the walls of tents erected on the grounds of the festival shrine, along with terrifying illustrations.

"Please stop by! Come and have a look! You can pay for it and then go home!"

Lured inside by such energetic shouts, I saw a woman who was too old to call her ``daughter'' shaking her headless kimono, holding a snake in her mouth, and passing it through her nose and mouth. can be viewed. In addition, there is a signboard reading ``Big Weasel'' in another room, and when you go inside, you will see a large board covered in blood. He is a "big weasel" with "big boards and blood."

Such old-fashioned box office performances were actually held in movies as well.

Index

• The twists and turns leading up to the birth of “The Return of the Living Dead”
• Slapstick black comedy “The Return of the Living Dead”
• “Even if it means fooling the customers, fill up Koya!”

The twists and turns leading up to the birth of “The Return of the Living Dead”

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Dan O'Bannon will produce the film Dark Star (1974) with John Carpenter, based on a short story he made while attending the University of Southern California. O'Bannon wrote the screenplay, did the visual effects, and also starred as one of the main characters. George Lucas, a senior at the university, saw this and invited O'Bannon to work on Star Wars (1977).

The graphics of the radiating lights when the Millennium Falcon goes into hyperdrive mode are a revised version of the animation created for Dark Star, and were created by O'Bannon.

"Dark Star" preview

O'Bannon could have gone straight to becoming an animator, but he wanted to become a director, so at the encouragement of those around him, he began his career as a screenwriter. However, suddenly he was involved in Alejandro Jodorowsky's ``Sand Planet''. As you know, the project falls through, and O'Bannon is cut off from his source of income and ends up living in a friend's house. During this period, he wrote the sci-fi horror screenplay ``Star Beast,'' which was bought to be directed by Ridley Scott. This became `` Alien ,'' and the success of the film led O'Bannon to pursue a career as a screenwriter in the science fiction and horror genres.

Meanwhile, O'Bannon receives a request to adapt an official sequel to a historical masterpiece. ` `Night of the Living Dead '' (1968) Director George A. Romero and screenwriter John Russo differed in their interpretation of ``Dawn of the Dead,'' and Romero continued with `` Dawn of the Dead '' (1968) with his own interpretation. 78), and Russo wrote a sequel novel, The Return of the Living Dead. A project based on this novel was set in motion to be directed by Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and O'Bannon was asked to adapt it.

However, Hooper soon left the project to work on Space Vampire (1985). The producer asks O'Bannon to take over the project as his directorial debut. O'Bannon believed that if he continued to work on Russo's original work, he would be ruining the Dawn of the Dead world created by Romero, so he accepted the directorship on the condition that he could rebuild it as something completely different.

“Night of the Living Dead” trailer

O'Bannon brought in production designer William Stout, who worked on the storyboards for ` `Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) and Michael Jackson's `` Thriller '' music video, to help build the worldview. Stout referenced mummies at the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, and horror comic magazines to design his own ``Dawn of the Dead.''

The Dawn of the Dead created by the two of them run around with great agility, and even if their heads are destroyed, they do not fall down, and even their severed arms continue to move. He is intelligent and can speak. Also, dead dogs and cats can come back to life, even stuffed specimens that have been cut in half. And the only thing the Dawn of the Dead are trying to eat is the brain. O'Bannon's new ``The Return of the Living Dead,'' in which such unique ``Dawn of the Dead'' roam, opens with a stylish line.

"Have you ever seen Night of the Living Dead? That movie is based on a true story."

This was the birth of "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985).

Slapstick black comedy “The Return of the Living Dead”