Ho, Ho, Ho, Return of the Residing Lifeless Rises ...

We’ve had fairly a couple of zombie franchises within the final decade, however one which hasn’t been seen shortly is the Return of the Living Dead movies. The final film dropped all the best way again in 2005, but it surely appeared issues had been set to vary when a brand new film was introduced in 2023. Luckily for followers, the sequence is officlally returning subsequent yr, simply in time for the primary movie’s fortieth anniversary.

After a handful of teaser images on Friday, the studio launched a teaser for the subsequent movie, additionally titled Return of the Residing Lifeless. As a substitute of being a reboot as initially believed, it’s really a continuation of the unique film: set nearly two years later in winter 1985, the Tarman zombie’s again in motion and trying to make some chaos in an unnamed Pennsylvania city the place the brand new movie’s set. Residing Lifeless mentioned to not anticipate any returning character from the primary film, given their “horrible fates,” however teased audiences shall be “welcomed again into the darkish humored, attractive, edgy, Trioxin fueled world horror followers first encountered.”

The primary Return of the Residing Lifeless targeted on a city contaminated by zombies that immediately rose up after a poisonous gasoline by accident reanimated all of its corpses. In a press launch, director/author Steve Wolsh constructed up the teaser by revealing it was made fully with practifcal results and on-location, and the cemetery Tarman walks by was constructed to duplicate the primary movie’s Resurrection Cemetery. “Using our widescreen anamorphic lenses, we captured the sensible snow results swirling in opposition to the night time sky that provides it a tremendous look and texture,” he mentioned. “It’s going to blow individuals away seeing a whole movie made like this.”

Return of the Residing Lifeless shambles to theaters in Christmas 2025.

[via BloodyDisgusting]

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