17: Return Of The Living Dead (1985)

17: Return Of The Living Dead (1985) - Let God sort 'em out.
The American military's 1960s attempt to create a marijuana-defoliating agent turned out instead to cause corpses to come back to life with a taste for brains. When one of the top-secret barrels containing an unkillable revenant starts to crack, the scene is set for zombie mayhem in Dan O'Bannon's cult horror outing. The deadly zombie-barrels have a government telephone number stencilled on the side, for people to call in case there is any problem with the barrel. Unfortunately phoning the number virtually guarantees a small nuclear air-strike on your current location.

Impact: Beverly Randolph and Don Calfa find themselves cornered by a zombie in an attic in the calamitous climax of RotLD, and the fact that the zombie breaks through just as the bomb drops actually injects a note of relief into the fatalistic shock of having a film's worth of characters bombed out of existence

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