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Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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.

GL84 After suffering a motorcycle accident, a teen and his deceased girlfriend use a military chemical to bring her back to life only to have her desire for human flesh to impede the military's search for containing them.This was quite an enjoyable effort that had a lot to like about it. More than anything, this one's best feature is the different methods of behavior attributed to the zombies' behavior in here, which is quite drastic in some cases. While it does feature the traditional models as well, the fact that these ones not only behave like normal people in the regard of speaking, talking and interacting with people rather than being mindless-flesh-craving-ghouls which makes for quite a nice time here. This one still gets quite a bit of fun out of those traditional zombie works, as the rampaging creatures in the sewer confrontations lends this one it's best feature as she manages to take out the gang after them as her victims mutate and continue the assault which helps the action here considerably. The earlier scene in the lab showing them bring the zombie back to life is where this one starts paying with those mutations for great cheesy action and plenty of fun zombie gore. That cheesiness includes the film's iconic image of her cut-up and filled with spikes, nails and broken glass impeded in her body that looks quite impressive as well as the finale where the zombies and mutants coming into the picture makes for quite a fun time with all the main gore brought into play here for the film's positive marks. Among the flaws here is the fact of it being too over-the-top in regards to their relationship which is barely developed and then quickly delves into the extreme behavior of her turning that's on the whole quite lame as there's very little given about why she would turn into that kind of being instead of the ravenous, mindless zombies that were seen as the only turning from exposure to the gas, so on the whole this itself is very flawed as for why he would turn her into such a creature. The other flaw here is the rather lacksidaiscal attitude displayed for the military, who routinely ignore clearance checks, fail to secure highly secure areas in their facility and butt heads with each other over command issues instead of going after the loose zombies which really lowers their effectiveness. While the cheesiness might also be a factor, those are the true flaws here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, and a short sex scene.

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

Bezenby Those pesky teenagers, eh? When they're not stinking up the place with bongs and their pop music, they're sneaking into military bases to reanimate their dead girlfriends. Probably quite handy that the teenager in question's dad was in charge of the place too.I was all up liking this one after recently rediscovering the first film, and ignoring the second one (haven't seen it for years and still remember how bad it was). However, I felt kind of let down with this one. I can understand why Brian Yuzna tried to tell the story the way it was, with a tragic romance angle and what not, but due to all the drama and brow-beating (not to mention the teenager shouting "Julie" several hundred times, I couldn't help but feel that the old zombie angle had take a bit of a back seat. I'm not out for teenage love and Romeo and Juliet styles antics - I wants hundreds of the living dead pursuing the living. For brains! The living dead themselves didn't seem to have too much of a handle of them living, breathing folk and were put down before they had a chance to spread, which was a bit of a pity. I don't know - this one wasn't to my taste. Others might like it. Maybe it was played too serious for me.