October 28, 2024 • 19 mins
What happens when you mix punk teenagers, a medical supply company accident, and experimental chemicals? Chaos, hilarity, and a whole lot of brain-craving zombies! Join us on the Dumb Cool Weird Podcast as we explore the wonderfully bonkers world of the cult classic "Return of the Living Dead." This episode promises an entertaining romp through the film's quirky plot, from accidental zombie outbreaks to the iconic "brains, brains" motif that redefined the zombie genre. Get ready to laugh at the misadventures of our punk protagonists, the military's epic blunders, and how one crematorium becomes a fiery sacrificial hotspot.
We don't just recount the madness scene-by-scene; we also dig into the movie's unique blend of horror, comedy, and punk culture. Discover why this '80s gem stands out among its undead peers like "Dawn of the Dead" and how its nod to "Night of the Living Dead" solidifies its place in zombie lore. With our irreverent take on military mishaps and endless zombie antics, you'll see why "Return of the Living Dead" is a must-watch for horror-comedy fans. Plus, as always, we wrap up with a reminder to tune in for more bizarre movie insights and catch our occasional Wayback Wednesdays.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Dumb Cool Weird Podcast.
Hi there, welcome to the DumbCool Weird Podcast.
We're doing Return of theLiving Dead, which is not a
Romero movie, but Romero likedit.
Yeah, Romero liked it, and it'skind of got a weird continuity
in it.
So apparently in the movie theguy mentions that Night of the
(00:21):
Living Dead.
Yeah, Night of the Living Dead.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And he's like, like it was actually based off of an
incident that happened at a vahospital in pittsburgh and you
know what.
I think that's actually kind offunny that they would probably
be using an experimental complike chemicals on a bunch of
veterans during vietnam, likewell, maybe we could like
reanimate them a little bit yeah, use them for war right bring
them back so they can go and eatthe Viet Cong Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So this is one of those movies that is very silly,
it's over the top and it kindof sets pretty much a precedence
and a tone for future zombiemovies.
And Nick knows what I'm talkingabout.
The term brains, brains Yep,and that is Return of the Living
Dead Keyed.
The term brains, brains yep,and that is return to the living
dead keyed.
The term brains, brains, brains.
(01:09):
So anytime you've ever heardabout zombie movies, what do you
hear?
Uh, brains, brains, brains,brains.
Because the, the zombies,always want brains, but really
the reality is they only wantedbrains in this series of movies
yeah, and they wanted thembecause it was actually helping
numb the pain of feeling theirbodies decompose.
Yeah it's the pain of being deadbut alive at the same time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You know, and that's amazing, though, it kind of
gives them that hit like a drugor something, that when they eat
a brain they just don't feelthe pain momentarily.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But they can never stop consuming.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, it's a good one .
If you've never seen return ofthe living dead, it's definitely
one of those movies that has tobe on top of your list of an
80s flick to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's also silly but kind of.
You know it's a zombie movie.
It's a fun, silly zombie moviewith a kick-ass soundtrack too
yep, I mean, you pretty muchstart at a um.
It's a medical supplies companyand then you know, new guy
coming in just getting a littlerundown of how the business
works.
Boss man says you ever watchthat movie.
(02:19):
Now they're living dead.
We got the containers downthere.
Let me go show you this deadbody.
Kid yep shows him the dead bodyand then he's like.
He's like yeah, the army fuckedup and accidentally sent what
sent these things to us and hegoes oh, can they break open?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
nah, man, these are reinforced.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This is the army corps of engineers just laps the
shit out of that thing, andthen the gas gets in their mouth
and you know, then the tarman's just hiding in a closet
somewhere yeah, it doesn't eventry to eat them.
And then the buddies show up,all the punk buddies, and and uh
, they, they show up in theirshitty, fucking broken down car
they have spray paint drawn allover it, so that they could wait
(02:58):
for jerry his name was jeremyso that they could wait for
jeremy to get off of work sothey could go party.
Yep, pretty much.
And uh, they seem to be havinga good time out there.
I mean that one chick justromanticizes about death, takes
off all of her clothes and thenshe's dancing naked and well,
don't forget, they fucking breakopen that fucking um graveyard
(03:21):
with the fucking sledgehammer.
Oh yeah, yeah, they needed aplace to party.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just a bunch of 18-year-olds who look like
20-something-year-olds needed aplace to party.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Every movie ever and basically what ends up happening
is all the cadavers come tolife in this medical facility.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Some of them are like over a hundred.
And then when the dead guy thatthey had in the freezer wakes
up, he's pretty pissed.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yep.
And then they decide to beatthe shit out of him, cut his
head off, and then they take himnext door to a mortician.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Before that this was the funny part.
It was when they're like wait aminute, wait a minute, let's
kill it.
Well, how, in the movie theydestroyed the brain, yep, and
then they actually drove thatspike through its head, didn't
do anything, and it didn't do athing and they're all like but
you said it worked in the movies, well, it's not fucking working
now.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's not a movie.
This is real life, Because iteven says it in the beginning of
the movie.
It's like these are based ontrue events.
These are actual events.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
These are actual places and people.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Because then the reality is, these zombies don't
go down just from destroyingtheir brains.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No, no, they keep coming back, yeah, God.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So they end up going next door to the mortician and
the mortician's like oh yeah,let's burn up the body.
They burn up the body and thenit evaporates, oh yeah, into the
air.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I love how they told him yeah, it's a bunch of rabid
weasels, yeah, he's like well,can I at least take him out in
the parking lot and put him outof their misery?
He pulls out his gun, like howoften do you do this that you
know?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
the neighborhood's going to bat.
Yeah, I know, right.
So they end up burning the body.
It gets absorbed into theatmosphere and then it rains
back down.
And when it's raining, thetrioxin which, by the way, the
name of the chemical is trioxin,apparently is is a chemical
that the us government createdto spray on marijuana.
Spray on marijuana to kill themarijuana, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I didn't really catch too much of that.
Maybe somebody in the commentssection could figure out that
scene and tell us that thingthat they said they were doing
with that chemical.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yep.
And so it ends up raining backdown and apparently when it
rains down on human, like normalhumans, it apparently burns
your skin skin a little bit, butit doesn't do anything to you.
But when it hits a decomposingcorpse, leaks to the ground,
hits a corpse, or it leaks onjust a regular corpse above
ground, it apparently reanimateslike the corpse yeah, it
(05:57):
reanimated a couple of hundredyear old corpses yep, people
that obviously should have beenskeletons at this point, maybe
even some of them dust, butobviously they're, you know,
bones.
They're supposed to be bones butthey have flesh on them.
Makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
No, no, it doesn't, because, like you said, you need
the muscles to move.
Yeah, there's no way.
Yeah, but then Jeremy and theother boss man were getting
rigor mortis.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yep, yeah.
So the boss man and Jeremy weredying from rigor mortis.
They get the paramedics outthere and they're like oh man,
they don't have blood pressure,no pulse, no reflexes, yep,
their room temperature and theirskin is like white colored,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's like well, we're not saying you're dead, but
you're kind of dead, you're kindof dead, you're moving around,
which doesn't make sense.
Yeah, but you're dead, yeah,you're dead, god.
And then when he turned on thelights and then they just strike
him, that was crazy, that waspretty creepy.
And then when they called inthe bring more paramedics.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yep, yeah.
So these zombies that come fromthe graves.
They destroy everybody, and theone hot punk girl with the red
hair, she gets eaten alive.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And she gets buried in the mud.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I was kind of confused about that, because
she's not the only character whocomes back reanimated.
So do they also have theability to sort of infect people
?
No, they don't, because that'swhat I was going to say.
I know they don't.
So, because that's what I wasgonna say, I know they couldn't
really infect anybody, becausethat one cop, so it's.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's really dependent on the trioxin hitting the body
because when you think about it, you know the one paramedic
that had his like half of hisbrain cut off.
He didn't get reanimatedbecause he wasn't getting rained
on, but the the one girl.
She died and when she, she gotrained on and she came back to
life.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, because she was buried under the mud.
Yeah, but that was the thing,because one of those cops also
had the same situation happen tohim, the one who was leading in
the other cops with the signallight, yep, so did they maybe
not eat his brain?
Or did they know how to utilizethe trioxin, or how does it
work?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Because maybe they ate part of his brain on the
back side or something.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And then he got hit with the trioxin and they were
like, oh, we can't eat him nowbecause, remember tarman,
remember tarman didn't eat theother two yeah, because like uh
and that's what I was sayingearlier is like he he probably
didn't bite into their brainsbecause he's like ah shit, still
fucking hungry.
Yeah, exactly what does themotherfucker got to do to get
some food around here?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, and speaking of Tar man, we got to talk about
Tar man.
Tar man is fucking terrifying.
He is terrifying.
When I was a kid, tar manscared the shit out of me.
Yes, because the normal lookinggirl who's in the punk group
goes downstairs to find herboyfriend Jeremy and she's like
Jeremy where you at, and stairsto find her boyfriend jeremy and
(08:46):
she's like jeremy where youhave it.
And then she looks over andthen, and then, and then they do
like a hitchcock, uh cinemazoom shot on her and then it
cuts back to the tar man andhe's like brains, and then yeah,
and he just kind of slides outof the wall.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, looks like he's smearing shit all over the
walls too yeah, well, I mean, heis kind of made of shit.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I mean he's just one big pile of garbage and shit.
Dude, yeah, he did melt in thatcontainer, yep, and basically
they end up going downstairs andtrying to save her and then the
one guy with the slight mohawkgets fucking eaten.
His brains gets eaten.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, that guy looked like he should have been like a
punk, not not a punk.
He should have been like a jockyep, not a punk, yep and
basically what ends up happening?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
is they run over this ?
Is they've run away?
They?
Leave them there they leavethem there and they run away
back to uh, where the morticianis, and they go inside, they
knock on the door, they let themin and they end up getting
attacked several times.
They bring one of the uh livingdead in there and they start
asking it questions.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, and that's where we find out that the dead
need to consume the brains sothat they can get rid of the
pain.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, so apparently being alive but also being dead
at the same time is painful andthey can feel themselves rotting
and it makes them want to eatbrains.
Apparently, when they eatbrains, it relieves the pain.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Do you think it's because the brain releases
dopamine?
It could be, they.
They're eating the dopamine hityeah they're getting a dopamine
hit every time, that's probablybrain.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's probably what happens.
Yep, that's probably exactlywhat happens.
They probably get a dopaminehit every time.
They do that wonder how long itlasts for you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know, I mean just because you know they got to go
through a lot of brains beforethey rot.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And what ends up happening isthe two guys who originally got
infected with the trioxin.
The one guy turns into a zombie.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, jeremy turns into a zombie and goes full bore
.
And the other guy he goes tokill himself in the crematorium.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.
So I guess he had enoughself-control that he was like
I'm a menace, I need to go killmyself, and he just goes and
fucks himself up.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, he unalived himself.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He put himself in the self-checkout line of life, Yep
pretty much and really the restof the movie, is the other
group of people.
They run back to the old, backto the um, the Asian girl and
the new wave guy.
The new wave guy and the blackguy and the other, the, the
mortician.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
They run.
No, that was big boss.
Man Mortician had to go intothe ceiling with a.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Big.
So yeah, that's true, like bigother two people and they, they
hide in the basement where, uh,the tarman was.
If they knock the tarman's headoff, they go downstairs and
they call.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They finally call the army corps of engineers and
they call the colonel who we sawin the beginning of the movie,
with his wife who has beensearching for these fucking
things 24, 7 yep and they'relike oh, what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And he's like why didn't you call sooner?
And he's like why didn't youcall sooner?
And he's like why didn't youcall sooner?
And then he's like he's like ohwell, what's been going on?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
uh-huh uh-huh, oh, how many did you say oh?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
oh and what?
What happened in the cemetery?
Oh okay, how many were in thecemetery?
Oh okay, let me just uh go overhere to my little control panel
real quick.
And then they're like oh, ishe's, he's?
And then he goes oh, he's got aplan.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
He's got a plan, he's gonna take care of everything
and the aging girl's like ohyeah, that's great then they
call the guy, then they call theguy in the mobile artillery and
he already knows what's goingon.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He's like, oh fuck yeah, we better, we better blow
this shit up.
He's like.
He's like oh, you got the codesyeah, he was like.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
He, like everybody's been briefed on what to do If
this thing gets out of hand.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yep, and so what ends up happening is they're in the
basement and they go Do you hearthat?
Do you hear that?
And the town gets nuked, andJeremy breaks into the attic as
soon as the town gets nuked andthey're all dead.
And then it all gets nuked, itevaporates back into the air and
(12:48):
then it rains back down andthen the process starts all over
again and then the movie ends.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Hey, Well, remember, it's atomized, so it might not
come back.
Except we got like three orfour sequels, so yeah, yeah,
that's because apparently, thearmy doesn't know how to get rid
of the chemicals safely ever.
Well, they just started leavingshit everywhere.
Yep, gets us right into thedumb.
(13:16):
Cool weird, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
it does so what's dumb?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
the fucking chemicals being dropped off to this
medical facility and brought tothe basement.
Okay, first off, that shitwould have had to have been
brought in by a contractor orsome soldier who was in charge
of this top secret shit toactually make sure that it
didn't go to some random placeStupid.
(13:42):
You know.
I know there are jokes that theyou know, the military, can be
a little incompetent at times.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I should know, but that that wouldn't have happened
well, it's also dumb because,like he was, he was like oh, we
could have called this number,but we're not going to call this
number exactly like.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
At no point did they think.
You know, it's only containedto this building right now, so
we should be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, call the number .
Speaker 2 (14:09):
They never called the number, yeah, but no, the fact
that they brought it to thebasement, you would think that
somebody would have had likeknowledge of that being there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'd think they would have called the number and
been like, hey, we got thesecanisters down here and the army
would have been like, oh yeah,let's let us get that and put
that in like area 51 orsomething like deep underground.
Like why would you get thoseand say, you know, we're gonna
keep these, even though we knowthe what was it?
Trioxin yep is very dangerousand we should probably get
somebody over here who canhandle this yep.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That isn't us yep exactly what would you say is
the cool about this movie?
The fucking soundtrack.
Yeah, goddamn that fuckingsoundtrack.
We're talking like hair metal,glam metal, heavy metal.
A little bit of synth wave.
Yeah all mixed into one.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, it really picked it up a notch compared to
the other movies.
The other sound, Day of theDead had a great soundtrack, but
Dawn of the Dead's soundtrackwas wacky as hell.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And that Tar man fucking makeup effects was
fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, not just cool, but fucking awesome they
actually did really good with alot of the zombie effects yeah,
like it is like leagues aboveanything else.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean I like you romero, but god damn, dude, this
fucking, this one took it tothe next level, like literally
well, we can't blame romero.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He didn't exactly have much to work with we'll see
romero.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Romero released his movie in 85.
This movie came out in 85 aswell, oh yep.
So it's like you got to thinkabout it.
It's like when you watch thesemovies, both these movies that
year, you're like, oh shit, thisfucking return to the living
dead movie had some fuckingcrazy ass, goddamn makeup
effects.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It also had some really funny moments.
Yeah, exactly, situationalhumor is great.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What's weird about this movie?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hmm, I think we actually.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I can't remember if we established that part, but I
think it was really weird howthey beat the shit out of that
dog.
Oh yeah, the dog wasn't reallytrying to attack, beat the shit
out of that dog.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh yeah, and the dog wasn't really trying to attack
anybody it wasn't a threat.
They're like oh, let's kill it,let's kill it, let's kill it.
You know?
What was weird, though, is likethey didn't call you know what.
Let's go back to the fact theydidn't call the number.
It's weird that the Army's beenlooking for these things for so
long and they didn't just thinkto backtrack just a little bit
just a little bit yeah, butmaybe the weird, maybe the
(16:30):
weirdest thing is what they theyhad.
They had a lot of hope that thisout-of-hand situation wouldn't
lead their town to getting nukedwell, it's also weird that the
guy who owns this entirefacility didn't think that oh,
that's a good one yeah, let mecall the number first.
Well it's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's weird because, like, the guy that owns the
facility didn't think, he didn'tthink straight.
He was like oh well, we got allthis stuff down here, we got
all these canisters full ofdangerous chemicals that could
possibly do something to thingsand we're just gonna keep them
down here yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That is weird too, because it's like you allowed
the army to drop this off to you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, exactly At what ?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
point.
Did you actually think thatthis would be beneficial to you
at all?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's also kind of weird how, even though things
were going so south for the cops, they just kept sending cops in
.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, like this is containable.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Uh, where's the national?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
guard.
Can we uh get the guard orsomebody else here, because this
shit is like out of hand, likewe don't have that many cops
well, movie logic right yeah,what they already went through,
like their whole police forceyep, pretty much who else is
gonna do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Nobody's gonna do shit you know what you know.
What's funny though what's thata little weird is when one of
those cops was getting attacked.
If you saw on the scene one ofthe at the barricade where
they're getting attacked, one ofthe cops tried to rescue the
other cop by wrapping his hisarms around the head of the
zombie and he tore the head off.
That was wild.
That was pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
This was a great one though yeah, it was a good one.
That was Return of the LivingDead.
It's not as serious as theother three we watched.
It's pretty fucking funny.
I mean, I guess Dawn of theDead's pretty funny, but not as
Whimsical more than funny, it'swhimsical yeah, but this one is
definitely a lot moreentertaining and funny, but it's
(18:27):
definitely an eighties classic.
It's not a direct sequel.
It's not really a like a like auh official sequel to those
movies, but there it'sdefinitely in there, though.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh yeah, so it's technically canon, because they
mentioned night of the livingdead.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So you should definitely check it out and, um,
you should definitely watch it.
So, nick, you want to sign usoff?
Stay sexy, atlanta.
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No-transcript.
Dumb Cool Weird Podcast.
Hi there, welcome to the DumbCool Weird Podcast.
We're doing Return of theLiving Dead, which is not a
Romero movie, but Romero likedit.
Yeah, Romero liked it, and it'skind of got a weird continuity
in it.
So apparently in the movie theguy mentions that Night of the
(00:21):
Living Dead.
Yeah, Night of the Living Dead.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And he's like, like it was actually based off of an
incident that happened at a vahospital in pittsburgh and you
know what.
I think that's actually kind offunny that they would probably
be using an experimental complike chemicals on a bunch of
veterans during vietnam, likewell, maybe we could like
reanimate them a little bit yeah, use them for war right bring
them back so they can go and eatthe Viet Cong Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So this is one of those movies that is very silly,
it's over the top and it kindof sets pretty much a precedence
and a tone for future zombiemovies.
And Nick knows what I'm talkingabout.
The term brains, brains Yep,and that is Return of the Living
Dead Keyed.
The term brains, brains yep,and that is return to the living
dead keyed.
The term brains, brains, brains.
(01:09):
So anytime you've ever heardabout zombie movies, what do you
hear?
Uh, brains, brains, brains,brains.
Because the, the zombies,always want brains, but really
the reality is they only wantedbrains in this series of movies
yeah, and they wanted thembecause it was actually helping
numb the pain of feeling theirbodies decompose.
Yeah it's the pain of being deadbut alive at the same time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You know, and that's amazing, though, it kind of
gives them that hit like a drugor something, that when they eat
a brain they just don't feelthe pain momentarily.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But they can never stop consuming.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, it's a good one .
If you've never seen return ofthe living dead, it's definitely
one of those movies that has tobe on top of your list of an
80s flick to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's also silly but kind of.
You know it's a zombie movie.
It's a fun, silly zombie moviewith a kick-ass soundtrack too
yep, I mean, you pretty muchstart at a um.
It's a medical supplies companyand then you know, new guy
coming in just getting a littlerundown of how the business
works.
Boss man says you ever watchthat movie.
(02:19):
Now they're living dead.
We got the containers downthere.
Let me go show you this deadbody.
Kid yep shows him the dead bodyand then he's like.
He's like yeah, the army fuckedup and accidentally sent what
sent these things to us and hegoes oh, can they break open?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
nah, man, these are reinforced.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This is the army corps of engineers just laps the
shit out of that thing, andthen the gas gets in their mouth
and you know, then the tarman's just hiding in a closet
somewhere yeah, it doesn't eventry to eat them.
And then the buddies show up,all the punk buddies, and and uh
, they, they show up in theirshitty, fucking broken down car
they have spray paint drawn allover it, so that they could wait
(02:58):
for jerry his name was jeremyso that they could wait for
jeremy to get off of work sothey could go party.
Yep, pretty much.
And uh, they seem to be havinga good time out there.
I mean that one chick justromanticizes about death, takes
off all of her clothes and thenshe's dancing naked and well,
don't forget, they fucking breakopen that fucking um graveyard
(03:21):
with the fucking sledgehammer.
Oh yeah, yeah, they needed aplace to party.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just a bunch of 18-year-olds who look like
20-something-year-olds needed aplace to party.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Every movie ever and basically what ends up happening
is all the cadavers come tolife in this medical facility.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Some of them are like over a hundred.
And then when the dead guy thatthey had in the freezer wakes
up, he's pretty pissed.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yep.
And then they decide to beatthe shit out of him, cut his
head off, and then they take himnext door to a mortician.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Before that this was the funny part.
It was when they're like wait aminute, wait a minute, let's
kill it.
Well, how, in the movie theydestroyed the brain, yep, and
then they actually drove thatspike through its head, didn't
do anything, and it didn't do athing and they're all like but
you said it worked in the movies, well, it's not fucking working
now.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's not a movie.
This is real life, Because iteven says it in the beginning of
the movie.
It's like these are based ontrue events.
These are actual events.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
These are actual places and people.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Because then the reality is, these zombies don't
go down just from destroyingtheir brains.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
No, no, they keep coming back, yeah, God.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So they end up going next door to the mortician and
the mortician's like oh yeah,let's burn up the body.
They burn up the body and thenit evaporates, oh yeah, into the
air.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I love how they told him yeah, it's a bunch of rabid
weasels, yeah, he's like well,can I at least take him out in
the parking lot and put him outof their misery?
He pulls out his gun, like howoften do you do this that you
know?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
the neighborhood's going to bat.
Yeah, I know, right.
So they end up burning the body.
It gets absorbed into theatmosphere and then it rains
back down.
And when it's raining, thetrioxin which, by the way, the
name of the chemical is trioxin,apparently is is a chemical
that the us government createdto spray on marijuana.
Spray on marijuana to kill themarijuana, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I didn't really catch too much of that.
Maybe somebody in the commentssection could figure out that
scene and tell us that thingthat they said they were doing
with that chemical.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yep.
And so it ends up raining backdown and apparently when it
rains down on human, like normalhumans, it apparently burns
your skin skin a little bit, butit doesn't do anything to you.
But when it hits a decomposingcorpse, leaks to the ground,
hits a corpse, or it leaks onjust a regular corpse above
ground, it apparently reanimateslike the corpse yeah, it
(05:57):
reanimated a couple of hundredyear old corpses yep, people
that obviously should have beenskeletons at this point, maybe
even some of them dust, butobviously they're, you know,
bones.
They're supposed to be bones butthey have flesh on them.
Makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
No, no, it doesn't, because, like you said, you need
the muscles to move.
Yeah, there's no way.
Yeah, but then Jeremy and theother boss man were getting
rigor mortis.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yep, yeah.
So the boss man and Jeremy weredying from rigor mortis.
They get the paramedics outthere and they're like oh man,
they don't have blood pressure,no pulse, no reflexes, yep,
their room temperature and theirskin is like white colored,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's like well, we're not saying you're dead, but
you're kind of dead, you're kindof dead, you're moving around,
which doesn't make sense.
Yeah, but you're dead, yeah,you're dead, god.
And then when he turned on thelights and then they just strike
him, that was crazy, that waspretty creepy.
And then when they called inthe bring more paramedics.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yep, yeah.
So these zombies that come fromthe graves.
They destroy everybody, and theone hot punk girl with the red
hair, she gets eaten alive.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And she gets buried in the mud.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I was kind of confused about that, because
she's not the only character whocomes back reanimated.
So do they also have theability to sort of infect people
?
No, they don't, because that'swhat I was going to say.
I know they don't.
So, because that's what I wasgonna say, I know they couldn't
really infect anybody, becausethat one cop, so it's.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's really dependent on the trioxin hitting the body
because when you think about it, you know the one paramedic
that had his like half of hisbrain cut off.
He didn't get reanimatedbecause he wasn't getting rained
on, but the the one girl.
She died and when she, she gotrained on and she came back to
life.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, because she was buried under the mud.
Yeah, but that was the thing,because one of those cops also
had the same situation happen tohim, the one who was leading in
the other cops with the signallight, yep, so did they maybe
not eat his brain?
Or did they know how to utilizethe trioxin, or how does it
work?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Because maybe they ate part of his brain on the
back side or something.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And then he got hit with the trioxin and they were
like, oh, we can't eat him nowbecause, remember tarman,
remember tarman didn't eat theother two yeah, because like uh
and that's what I was sayingearlier is like he he probably
didn't bite into their brainsbecause he's like ah shit, still
fucking hungry.
Yeah, exactly what does themotherfucker got to do to get
some food around here?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, and speaking of Tar man, we got to talk about
Tar man.
Tar man is fucking terrifying.
He is terrifying.
When I was a kid, tar manscared the shit out of me.
Yes, because the normal lookinggirl who's in the punk group
goes downstairs to find herboyfriend Jeremy and she's like
Jeremy where you at, and stairsto find her boyfriend jeremy and
(08:46):
she's like jeremy where youhave it.
And then she looks over andthen, and then, and then they do
like a hitchcock, uh cinemazoom shot on her and then it
cuts back to the tar man andhe's like brains, and then yeah,
and he just kind of slides outof the wall.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, looks like he's smearing shit all over the
walls too yeah, well, I mean, heis kind of made of shit.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I mean he's just one big pile of garbage and shit.
Dude, yeah, he did melt in thatcontainer, yep, and basically
they end up going downstairs andtrying to save her and then the
one guy with the slight mohawkgets fucking eaten.
His brains gets eaten.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, that guy looked like he should have been like a
punk, not not a punk.
He should have been like a jockyep, not a punk, yep and
basically what ends up happening?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
is they run over this ?
Is they've run away?
They?
Leave them there they leavethem there and they run away
back to uh, where the morticianis, and they go inside, they
knock on the door, they let themin and they end up getting
attacked several times.
They bring one of the uh livingdead in there and they start
asking it questions.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, and that's where we find out that the dead
need to consume the brains sothat they can get rid of the
pain.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, so apparently being alive but also being dead
at the same time is painful andthey can feel themselves rotting
and it makes them want to eatbrains.
Apparently, when they eatbrains, it relieves the pain.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Do you think it's because the brain releases
dopamine?
It could be, they.
They're eating the dopamine hityeah they're getting a dopamine
hit every time, that's probablybrain.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's probably what happens.
Yep, that's probably exactlywhat happens.
They probably get a dopaminehit every time.
They do that wonder how long itlasts for you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know, I mean just because you know they got to go
through a lot of brains beforethey rot.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And what ends up happening isthe two guys who originally got
infected with the trioxin.
The one guy turns into a zombie.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, jeremy turns into a zombie and goes full bore
.
And the other guy he goes tokill himself in the crematorium.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.
So I guess he had enoughself-control that he was like
I'm a menace, I need to go killmyself, and he just goes and
fucks himself up.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, he unalived himself.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He put himself in the self-checkout line of life, Yep
pretty much and really the restof the movie, is the other
group of people.
They run back to the old, backto the um, the Asian girl and
the new wave guy.
The new wave guy and the blackguy and the other, the, the
mortician.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
They run.
No, that was big boss.
Man Mortician had to go intothe ceiling with a.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Big.
So yeah, that's true, like bigother two people and they, they
hide in the basement where, uh,the tarman was.
If they knock the tarman's headoff, they go downstairs and
they call.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They finally call the army corps of engineers and
they call the colonel who we sawin the beginning of the movie,
with his wife who has beensearching for these fucking
things 24, 7 yep and they'relike oh, what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And he's like why didn't you call sooner?
And he's like why didn't youcall sooner?
And he's like why didn't youcall sooner?
And then he's like he's like ohwell, what's been going on?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
uh-huh uh-huh, oh, how many did you say oh?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
oh and what?
What happened in the cemetery?
Oh okay, how many were in thecemetery?
Oh okay, let me just uh go overhere to my little control panel
real quick.
And then they're like oh, ishe's, he's?
And then he goes oh, he's got aplan.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
He's got a plan, he's gonna take care of everything
and the aging girl's like ohyeah, that's great then they
call the guy, then they call theguy in the mobile artillery and
he already knows what's goingon.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He's like, oh fuck yeah, we better, we better blow
this shit up.
He's like.
He's like oh, you got the codesyeah, he was like.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
He, like everybody's been briefed on what to do If
this thing gets out of hand.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yep, and so what ends up happening is they're in the
basement and they go Do you hearthat?
Do you hear that?
And the town gets nuked, andJeremy breaks into the attic as
soon as the town gets nuked andthey're all dead.
And then it all gets nuked, itevaporates back into the air and
(12:48):
then it rains back down andthen the process starts all over
again and then the movie ends.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Hey, Well, remember, it's atomized, so it might not
come back.
Except we got like three orfour sequels, so yeah, yeah,
that's because apparently, thearmy doesn't know how to get rid
of the chemicals safely ever.
Well, they just started leavingshit everywhere.
Yep, gets us right into thedumb.
(13:16):
Cool weird, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
it does so what's dumb?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
the fucking chemicals being dropped off to this
medical facility and brought tothe basement.
Okay, first off, that shitwould have had to have been
brought in by a contractor orsome soldier who was in charge
of this top secret shit toactually make sure that it
didn't go to some random placeStupid.
(13:42):
You know.
I know there are jokes that theyou know, the military, can be
a little incompetent at times.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I should know, but that that wouldn't have happened
well, it's also dumb because,like he was, he was like oh, we
could have called this number,but we're not going to call this
number exactly like.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
At no point did they think.
You know, it's only containedto this building right now, so
we should be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, call the number .
Speaker 2 (14:09):
They never called the number, yeah, but no, the fact
that they brought it to thebasement, you would think that
somebody would have had likeknowledge of that being there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'd think they would have called the number and
been like, hey, we got thesecanisters down here and the army
would have been like, oh yeah,let's let us get that and put
that in like area 51 orsomething like deep underground.
Like why would you get thoseand say, you know, we're gonna
keep these, even though we knowthe what was it?
Trioxin yep is very dangerousand we should probably get
somebody over here who canhandle this yep.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That isn't us yep exactly what would you say is
the cool about this movie?
The fucking soundtrack.
Yeah, goddamn that fuckingsoundtrack.
We're talking like hair metal,glam metal, heavy metal.
A little bit of synth wave.
Yeah all mixed into one.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, it really picked it up a notch compared to
the other movies.
The other sound, Day of theDead had a great soundtrack, but
Dawn of the Dead's soundtrackwas wacky as hell.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And that Tar man fucking makeup effects was
fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, not just cool, but fucking awesome they
actually did really good with alot of the zombie effects yeah,
like it is like leagues aboveanything else.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean I like you romero, but god damn, dude, this
fucking, this one took it tothe next level, like literally
well, we can't blame romero.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He didn't exactly have much to work with we'll see
romero.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Romero released his movie in 85.
This movie came out in 85 aswell, oh yep.
So it's like you got to thinkabout it.
It's like when you watch thesemovies, both these movies that
year, you're like, oh shit, thisfucking return to the living
dead movie had some fuckingcrazy ass, goddamn makeup
effects.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It also had some really funny moments.
Yeah, exactly, situationalhumor is great.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What's weird about this movie?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hmm, I think we actually.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I can't remember if we established that part, but I
think it was really weird howthey beat the shit out of that
dog.
Oh yeah, the dog wasn't reallytrying to attack, beat the shit
out of that dog.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh yeah, and the dog wasn't really trying to attack
anybody it wasn't a threat.
They're like oh, let's kill it,let's kill it, let's kill it.
You know?
What was weird, though, is likethey didn't call you know what.
Let's go back to the fact theydidn't call the number.
It's weird that the Army's beenlooking for these things for so
long and they didn't just thinkto backtrack just a little bit
just a little bit yeah, butmaybe the weird, maybe the
(16:30):
weirdest thing is what they theyhad.
They had a lot of hope that thisout-of-hand situation wouldn't
lead their town to getting nukedwell, it's also weird that the
guy who owns this entirefacility didn't think that oh,
that's a good one yeah, let mecall the number first.
Well it's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's weird because, like, the guy that owns the
facility didn't think, he didn'tthink straight.
He was like oh well, we got allthis stuff down here, we got
all these canisters full ofdangerous chemicals that could
possibly do something to thingsand we're just gonna keep them
down here yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That is weird too, because it's like you allowed
the army to drop this off to you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, exactly At what ?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
point.
Did you actually think thatthis would be beneficial to you
at all?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's also kind of weird how, even though things
were going so south for the cops, they just kept sending cops in
.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, like this is containable.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Uh, where's the national?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
guard.
Can we uh get the guard orsomebody else here, because this
shit is like out of hand, likewe don't have that many cops
well, movie logic right yeah,what they already went through,
like their whole police forceyep, pretty much who else is
gonna do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Nobody's gonna do shit you know what you know.
What's funny though what's thata little weird is when one of
those cops was getting attacked.
If you saw on the scene one ofthe at the barricade where
they're getting attacked, one ofthe cops tried to rescue the
other cop by wrapping his hisarms around the head of the
zombie and he tore the head off.
That was wild.
That was pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
This was a great one though yeah, it was a good one.
That was Return of the LivingDead.
It's not as serious as theother three we watched.
It's pretty fucking funny.
I mean, I guess Dawn of theDead's pretty funny, but not as
Whimsical more than funny, it'swhimsical yeah, but this one is
definitely a lot moreentertaining and funny, but it's
(18:27):
definitely an eighties classic.
It's not a direct sequel.
It's not really a like a like auh official sequel to those
movies, but there it'sdefinitely in there, though.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh yeah, so it's technically canon, because they
mentioned night of the livingdead.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So you should definitely check it out and, um,
you should definitely watch it.
So, nick, you want to sign usoff?
Stay sexy, atlanta.
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