Country: USA
Year: 1985
Duration: 91'
Young Freddy just started working for Uneeda, a company that transports cadavers for scientific purposes. According to an older colleague, the company is embroiled in a series of shady deals with the military. Like those bodies the army gave them twenty years ago that came back to life after being exposed to a mysterious toxic gas. There are still barrels of the substance in the basement. And when the inevitable leak happens, the corpses stored at Uneeda and the bodies buried in the cemetery next door come back to life, turning into blood-thirsty zombies. The same fate awaits Freddy and his punk rock friends who came to his rescue in this apocalypse of putrefying bodies and devoured entrails. [rm]
Biography
film director
Dan O'Bannon
Dan O’Bannon (Saint Louis, KY, USA, 1946 - Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2007) was especially known for his writing. He started with John Carpenter’s first short Dark Star (1974), which they then wrote into the full-length feature. He worked with other directors, the likes of Ridley Scott (Alien, 1979), John Badham (Blue Thunder, 1983), Tobe Hopper (Space Vampires, 1985, and Invaders from Mars, 1986) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, 1990). As a director, he made his first short Blood Bath in 1969, followed by just two more features: The Return of the Living Dead (1985), which quickly became a cult film, and The Resurrected (1991).
FILMOGRAFIA
Blood Bath (cm, 1969), The Return of the Living Dead (Il ritorno dei morti viventi, 1985), The Resurrected (1991).
Declaration
film director
“When I directed The Return of the Living Dead, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. It was the first film that I ever officially directed. […] So Return to me was a real education in how not to direct a movie, how not to manage other people. And I wouldn’t even consider it directing until I rethought the entire process.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Dan O’Bannon
soggetto/story
Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo, Russell Streiner
fotografia/cinematography
Jules Brenner
montaggio/film editing
Robert Gordon
scenografia/production design
William Stout
musica/music
Matt Clifford
suono/sound
Stanley B. Gill
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Clu Gulager (Burt), James Karen (Frank), Don Calfa (Ernie), Thom Mathews (Freddy), Beverly Randolph (Tina), John Philbin (Chuck), Jewel Shepard (Casey), Miguel Nunez (Spider), Brian Peck (Scuz), Linnea Quigley (Trash)
produttore/producer
Tom Fox
produzione/production
Hemdale, Fox Films, Greenberg Brothers Partnership
coproduttore/coproducer
Graham Henderson
Dan O’Bannon
soggetto/story
Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo, Russell Streiner
fotografia/cinematography
Jules Brenner
montaggio/film editing
Robert Gordon
scenografia/production design
William Stout
musica/music
Matt Clifford
suono/sound
Stanley B. Gill
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Clu Gulager (Burt), James Karen (Frank), Don Calfa (Ernie), Thom Mathews (Freddy), Beverly Randolph (Tina), John Philbin (Chuck), Jewel Shepard (Casey), Miguel Nunez (Spider), Brian Peck (Scuz), Linnea Quigley (Trash)
produttore/producer
Tom Fox
produzione/production
Hemdale, Fox Films, Greenberg Brothers Partnership
coproduttore/coproducer
Graham Henderson
