The Return of the Living Dead

1985 · 91 min · Original language: English

TMDB 7.2/10 · 2,361 votes

Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

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