Return of the Living Dead watch order
There are 5 Return of the Living Dead films, about 7.7 hours in total. The first was released in 1985, the latest in 2005. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead.
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
25 Apr 1985 · 91 min
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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Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
15 Jan 1988 · 89 min
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
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Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
1 Oct 1993 · 97 min
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
15 Oct 2005 · 88 min
In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.
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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
15 Oct 2005 · 95 min
A student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' which has the unexpected side effect of resurrecting the dead as flesh-eating zombies, who proceed to wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.