Return Of The Living Dead dvd review

As i sit here and  write this review i have found memories as a child of running around my house yelling "brains", this movie is a classic horror comedy before there was such a thing.  Dan O' Bannon wrote a very fun script, yet not a dumb script (he also directed this movie). His use of dark humor, people's real reactions to such an outlandish situation are pure gold. He found the right balance between funny and spoof funny (think the Scary Movie franchise). He also blended the cast perfectly of new and inexperienced actors with grisly vets.
     Starting the movie  you at once feel at home and care for these actors, you want them to survive this hellish thing happening to them. You greeted to the some of the typical stereotypes in a horror film (the good girl, the nerd, the slut, ect). And as the film progresses it's interesting to see how these characters act in their surroundings, take the slut (played here by Linnea Quigley) she freaks out and gets over taken by the hoard of zombies eventually becoming one herself. Our two main characters Freddy and Frank are played as medical supply warehouse buffoons who accidentally open the container that holds not only the zombie by the caustic gas. 
    Once the container is opened all hell breaks loose in the warehouse, half dissected dogs start to bark, a human cadaver in the meat locker starts to scream in pain, things don't look good for this two men; fear not they decide to call in their boss Burt. As Burt arrives he is briefed on the situation and he deducts the only thing to do is to cut up the cadaver and dogs and bring it to his buddy Ernie across the street at the local crematorium to dispose of the evidence.  Ernie finally agrees after some sweet talking by Burt and soon we're greeted to that ominous fog coming out of the stakes and creeping over the old cemetery. Of course the three men don't know what they've just done a it begins to rain, bringing down smoke into the ground.
      We finally see our first true zombie at the forty-four minute mark when the infamous Tar Man makes his appearance, he attacks Freddy's girlfriend Tina who is in a locker, she is rescued but one of the other punks isn't so lucky and gets his brain eaten. The surviving punks stare in disbelief of what they just saw as Tar Man utters "Mooooore Braiiins"; at that point they run up the stairs and lock the zombie down in the basement.  They take off for what they think is the safety of the cemetery but as soon as they reach a large headstone there greeted to disembodied moaning, and the group separates to running back to the warehouse while the other three head to the crematorium. The two that headed into the supply warehouse lock themselves in there praying for someone to save them, as the other three knock on the door of crematorium. Ernie answers waving is gun, but lets them in when he hears that loud moaning coming from the cemetery.

    Our film ends with Burt in the warehouse (he got there by driving Ernie's car till it died), he gets in and with the help of the two punks they kill the Tar Man to go downstairs to use a phone to call the cops "they got they cops...". After hearing the police being over run he calls the phone number on the Army container, a General answers, confirms a few things then sends a small bomb to destroy that area, it of course doesn't  and it begins all over again with people complaining of "burning skin"...