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Return of the Living Dead 3
DVD/APPROX. 97 MINS/1993/USA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 97 MINS/1993/USA R18+
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Can you say FRANCHISE? I can and it is spelled “Return of the Living Dead 3”. Ok, don’t get me wrong, I like zombie films (hell I love them) but I
think we are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one. How you ask, well let me tell you. Isn’t that the reason why you are reading this
anyway?
Once again we see the militaries involvement with the 245 Trioxin, this time in a secure undisclosed location. Two rebellious teens Julie (Melinda
Clarke) and boyfriend Curt (J. Trevor Edmond) decide to sneak a peek as to what’s going on after hearing the low down on one of his father’s
(Kent McCord) covert conversations. Soon the 2 are present for the militaries testing on activating the dead for use as bio weapons with the toxic
life restorer. After the sight of a corpse brought back to life and munching an un-expecting soldier to his final duty, the young couple, decide to flee.
Returning back home and later arguing with his father after receiving news of yet another relocation order, Curt decides he has had enough of the
commands and decides to set out with Julie and nothing more. As the 2 speed of in the moment of never having to deal with another over bearing
parent and living there lives in each others arms things soon turn for the worst after an accident sends Julie to an early grave. Not able to cope
with the sudden loss, Curt takes Julie to the base in hopes of bringing her back with the help of the Trioxin. All works out fine and seems golden
until Julie shows signs of not being herself and suddenly has the undying urge to feed. As the 2 run for there lives while being chased by the Army,
Curts father, and a Mexican pimp though the city and under its sewer system, Julie begins to leave a path of the living dead in her wake. Soon she
discovers that causing her self pain by self mutilation can briefly subside the pain for a short time. Soon the film turns into a rampage within the
sewer as Curts dad along with the military catches up with them, just as Julie suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Feeling that everything has run
its course, the film returns back to the test facility where we find that all of the victims of Julies rampage along with herself have been contained
and are awaiting there turn of duty as part of the bio-soldier program headed by Curt’s father. Not being able to see his once true love be set in
motion as a government killing machine, Curt decides to open Pandora’s Box and unleash the madness by releasing all of the containers holding
the zombie horde. As the containment area soon becomes a battlefield for survive Curt and Julie decide to finish there living hell and together
forever seal there love and devotion with a baptism in the bases waste disposal oven.
The film itself does not truly hold any strong points and much of the original story idea was lost with its more serious fare as the first 2 had comic
relief. The graphic detail is still the same caliber, and the zombies are as beautiful as ever, with the actual gore factor laying low until the ending 15
minutes or so. I felt with this release the studio was just throwing out filler for a genre that was lacking in releases at the time, and as for me
being a viewer/fan of these films, I now know what it feels like to be in a zombie film, when all you really want is to stop running catch your breath,
and to stop having these films constantly rising from the depths and chasing after you.
think we are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one. How you ask, well let me tell you. Isn’t that the reason why you are reading this
anyway?
Once again we see the militaries involvement with the 245 Trioxin, this time in a secure undisclosed location. Two rebellious teens Julie (Melinda
Clarke) and boyfriend Curt (J. Trevor Edmond) decide to sneak a peek as to what’s going on after hearing the low down on one of his father’s
(Kent McCord) covert conversations. Soon the 2 are present for the militaries testing on activating the dead for use as bio weapons with the toxic
life restorer. After the sight of a corpse brought back to life and munching an un-expecting soldier to his final duty, the young couple, decide to flee.
Returning back home and later arguing with his father after receiving news of yet another relocation order, Curt decides he has had enough of the
commands and decides to set out with Julie and nothing more. As the 2 speed of in the moment of never having to deal with another over bearing
parent and living there lives in each others arms things soon turn for the worst after an accident sends Julie to an early grave. Not able to cope
with the sudden loss, Curt takes Julie to the base in hopes of bringing her back with the help of the Trioxin. All works out fine and seems golden
until Julie shows signs of not being herself and suddenly has the undying urge to feed. As the 2 run for there lives while being chased by the Army,
Curts father, and a Mexican pimp though the city and under its sewer system, Julie begins to leave a path of the living dead in her wake. Soon she
discovers that causing her self pain by self mutilation can briefly subside the pain for a short time. Soon the film turns into a rampage within the
sewer as Curts dad along with the military catches up with them, just as Julie suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Feeling that everything has run
its course, the film returns back to the test facility where we find that all of the victims of Julies rampage along with herself have been contained
and are awaiting there turn of duty as part of the bio-soldier program headed by Curt’s father. Not being able to see his once true love be set in
motion as a government killing machine, Curt decides to open Pandora’s Box and unleash the madness by releasing all of the containers holding
the zombie horde. As the containment area soon becomes a battlefield for survive Curt and Julie decide to finish there living hell and together
forever seal there love and devotion with a baptism in the bases waste disposal oven.
The film itself does not truly hold any strong points and much of the original story idea was lost with its more serious fare as the first 2 had comic
relief. The graphic detail is still the same caliber, and the zombies are as beautiful as ever, with the actual gore factor laying low until the ending 15
minutes or so. I felt with this release the studio was just throwing out filler for a genre that was lacking in releases at the time, and as for me
being a viewer/fan of these films, I now know what it feels like to be in a zombie film, when all you really want is to stop running catch your breath,
and to stop having these films constantly rising from the depths and chasing after you.
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