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Return Of The Living Dead 5 – Rave To The Grave

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: D     Feature: C-

 

 

Back in 1985, the first Return Of The Living Dead arrived the same year as George Romero’s Day Of The Dead (reviewed elsewhere on this site) and Romero tried and failed to stop it with a lawsuit.  Though Romero’s film was very good, the competitor explicitly spoofed the franchise in a way that stuck and filmmakers in the Horror genre started catching up to Romero.  Return Of The Living Dead 5 – Rave To The Grave has a funny title, good attitude, sense of morbid humor and the like, but does not know what to do with it.

 

Kids go to a rave and get attacked by brain-eating zombies and they bite into the back and sides of living humans.  The opening sequence has a crackpot science type (Peter Coyote) making the mistake of using a gas to revive one of them and an army arises instead.  Unfortunately, the script has nowhere to go and now all the Horror Comedy productions have caught up with this franchise.  Even Romero has a fifth Dead film on the way.  For completists only.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is thankfully more colorful than most Horror releases of late and this works to its advantage, but is still too soft for its own good.  Depth is also a problem.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix has some fairly good Pro Logic surrounds and is actually a tad better than some so-called 5.1 mixes we have encountered recently.  There are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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