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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Film Do You Want To Party? IT'S PARTY TIME.

Posted by Derek Erdman on Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM

As it's the time of the month to watch the best ever genre of movies, the 1985 punk-tastic Return of the Living Dead should be a staple for any Halloween horror viewing session. It's a mostly typical romp through chemically infected brain-eating zombie gore that spawned 999 sequels, but the soundtrack is oddly blistering. Comprised of a number of classic bands past their prime, the highlight for sure is 45 Grave's "Partytime (Zombie Version)." I had a cassette of this soundtrack as a youngster and it was the first time I'd ever heard the voice of Roky Erickson. Can you imagine that? "Burn the Flames" as an introduction to Roky Erickson? Oh, the mortification!

Also, that T.S.O.L. track is from the era where they were getting bad but were still kind of good.

Here's the whole tracklisting:

"Surfin' Dead" by The Cramps
"Partytime (Zombie Version)" by 45 Grave
"Nothin' for You" by T.S.O.L.
"Eyes Without a Face" by The Flesh Eaters
"Burn the Flames" by Roky Erickson
"Dead Beat Dance" by The Damned
"Take a Walk" by Tall Boys
"Love Under Will" by Jet Black Berries
"Tonight (We'll Make Love Until We Die)" by SSQ
"Trash's Theme" by SSQ

Ernie Kaltenbrunner: You can hear me?
1/2 Woman Corpse: Yes.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why do you eat people?
1/2 Woman Corpse: Not people. Brains.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Brains only?
1/2 Woman Corpse: Yes.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why?
1/2 Woman Corpse: The PAIN!
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: What about the pain?
1/2 Woman Corpse: The pain of being DEAD!
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: [laughing in surprise to his friends] It hurts... to be dead.
1/2 Woman Corpse: I can feel myself rotting.
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Eating brains... How does that make you feel?
1/2 Woman Corpse: It makes the pain go away!

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I have the movie on VHS and the soundtrack on vinyl. Those were the 2 things I insisted on getting for Xmas back in the day.

Posted by very bad homo on October 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM

Send more paramedics.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on October 25, 2011 at 3:22 PM

It's not a bad question, Burt.

Posted by r.chops on October 25, 2011 at 4:00 PM

For some reason there was a poster for this movie in the main hall of my house (my parents' house) for at least a decade starting in 1985. I watched it for the first time last year and was not disappointed.

Posted by Levislade

on October 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM

That dialogue is brilliant.

Posted by Kathy Fennessy

on October 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM

legitimately my favorite zombie movie.

Posted by mmmcheezy

on October 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM

Is "Evil Dead" the one where the guy chops up zombies with a lawnmower? That was my favorite.

Posted by seandr on October 25, 2011 at 8:07 PM

The yellow zombie is an old friend. Teaches boxing in LA.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391101/

He was hired on this movie as an extra for a day. But the director liked the material. So it was expanded and Terry worked a week on set. He spent most of it hanging in the locker.

Posted by eclexia on October 25, 2011 at 9:03 PM

@7, isn't the lawnmower bit from "Dead Alive"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC1d7dw24…

Posted by eclexia on October 25, 2011 at 9:07 PM

I like the movie, but hate that brains have become the norm staple for zombies, and forget about intelligence and being able to move faster than a shamble.

I prefer zombie movies such that the threat is more like a forest fire than anything else.

(And I think the whole, absurd, gas reviving the dead element was stole whole from "Night of the Zombies", a decent movie starring Jamie Gillis.)

Posted by Gerald Fnord on October 26, 2011 at 6:59 AM