Episode 92 - Aug 2, 2023

Return of the Living Dead

Episode 92: Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Theme: Return Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

Oz and Curtis crack open August’s “Return Month” with a film that’s equal parts punk chaos, practical-effects glory, and oozy 80s perfection: Return of the Living Dead. It’s a movie marriage of Purple Rain × The Crazies × a dash of Sesame Street — because when your lead morticians are literally named Bert and Ernie, that’s destiny.

This week they unpack:

  • Why Frank is the world’s most dramatic Foreman, capable of turning every cough into an Oscar campaign.

  • How this zombie universe went, “Romero rules? Nah — what if zombies could talk, problem-solve, and work a cherry picker?”

  • How the punk gang is the most inclusive, leather-clad friend group since the Breakfast Club discovered Hot Topic.

  • Why Tarman’s entrance still slaps and why Brains! deserves to be in the horror dictionary.

  • How burning a contaminated corpse cloud instantly becomes the world’s worst EPA violation.

Zombies are running, brains are screaming, trash is dancing, and the government is solving problems the only way it knows how: nuking Louisville off the map.

Final Verdict:

Oz: 10 Dancing Trashes
Curtis: 9.5 Live Dogs (half included)

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