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Brains! Zombies! Brain-eating zombies! Real zombies! How much I miss that in modern horror movies. Modern horror movies have become nasty, disgusting, but not scary. They don’t scare you now, but make you want to gag.

And you can’t say that Dan O’Bannon’s Return of the Living Dead is the benchmark for horror movies. No. It’s more like an auteur film, where the horror slips into comedy, where the viewer is really scared and tense, and then a minute later he’s laughing and holding his sides, and a while later he’s quietly watching amateur pathologists talking to a living corpse about to be dissected. The film is unusual. The film is ambiguous. And it certainly has a very unconventional ending for a horror film. That is why it is interesting. That is why you want to watch it again. And when you watch it you get nostalgic and think of the times of video saloons, and how we used to run as teenagers to watch this film. And special thanks to the video saloons. They didn’t set any age limits, and for some reason we, 13-year-old boys, were interested in this movie not in zombies in the first place (well, zombies too, of course, but secondly), but in a completely naked Lynnie Quigley, who runs around like that (well, completely naked, that is) for a good half of the film. That part of the movie, for some reason, was especially interesting to us. It’s funny to even think about it now.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (88.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitles
English SDH, English.

Сообщение The Return of the Living Dead 4K 1985 появились сначала на 4К-MOVIES.BIZ.

On his way stands Karl Volkin, a scanner, drinking life juices, from other psychic colleagues. Karl wants only one thing – to take revenge on Sam Staziak for killing his brother.

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Karl Volkin (Patrick Kilpatrick) is a vengeance-crazed Scanner who’s escaped from prison, and is hellbent on striking back at heroic Scanner cop Samuel Staziak (Brad Dourif look alike Daniel Quinn). What he does to work towards this end is suck the life out of other Scanners, leaving them twisted, burning hunks of flesh. He hopes to become even more powerful than his nemesis, and stops at nothing.

This is actually a pretty good B movie, made with competence (if not flamboyance) at every level. Its story, concocted by Mark Sevi, is ultimately very routine, but director Steve Barnett does keep us entertained. It’s amusing, as it always is with these movies, to watch actors make all manner of faces as they unleash their devastating mental abilities. Volkin leaves quite the trail of bodies behind him, so viewers can take comfort in a respectable body count, as well as some reasonably impressive (if protracted) makeup effects sequences devised by John Carl Buechler and his company.

The cast gives it their best effort. Quinn is a decent enough good guy, but he’s outshone by veteran movie villain Kilpatrick, who’s fun to watch. A number of recognizable actors pop up along the way, although Robert Forster is given precious little to do as Staziaks’ superior officer. Khrystyne Hage (‘Head of the Class’), Stephen Mendel, Brenda Swanson, Jerry Potter, and Jewel Shepard (“The Return of the Living Dead”) co-star, while Eugene Robert Glazer (‘La Femme Nikita’), Allan Kolman (Cronenbergs’ “Shivers”), Aaron Lustig (“Bad Channels”), and none other than Kane Hodder have small parts.

A worthy follow up to “Scanner Cop”.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (84.4 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitles
English SDH.

Сообщение Scanner Cop 2 4K 1995 появились сначала на 4К-MOVIES.BIZ.