Nearly forty years ago, writer-director Dan O’Bannon delivered one of the best zombie movies of all time: The Return of the Living Dead. The movie spawned several sequels and knock-offs, and after 19 years, we’re finally getting a new franchise installment.
Director Steve Wolsh (Muck), the CEO of Living Dead Media, is behind the film, which has just landed a trailer. Thanks to the trailer, we know it is a Christmas movie. As a soft and almost eerie version of Silent Night is sung, we see a zombie dragging a Christmas tree lit with colored lights through a dark, snow-covered graveyard.
The description below the teaser sheds more light on the movie. It is described as both a reboot and a sequel. But it sounds like a sequel to us. It is set 18 months after the events at the UNEEDA Warehouse in Louisville, KY. A new Trioxin 2-4-5 leak puts a small Pennsylvania town on the brink of a zombie outbreak during Christmas 1985.
The 1985 original gave us the iconic characters “Tar Man” and ” Trash” (Linnea Quigley), the punk chick who likes to dance naked in graveyards. It sees two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air. The vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
We’ll be gifted Return of the Living Dead this time next year. Check out the trailer below, and visit the website for killer Return of the Living Dead merchandise and more.
