Ho, Ho, Ho, Return of the Residing Lifeless Rises Once more!

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. Thankfully for followers, the collection is officlally returning subsequent 12 months, 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 truly a continuation of the unique film: set virtually two years later in winter 1985, the Tarman zombie’s again in motion and seeking to make some chaos in an unnamed Pennsylvania city the place the brand new movie’s set. Residing Lifeless stated to not anticipate any returning character from the primary film, given their “horrible fates,” however teased audiences will probably be “welcomed again into the darkish humored, attractive, edgy, Trioxin fueled world horror followers first encountered.”

The primary Return of the Residing Lifeless centered on a city contaminated by zombies that out of the blue rose up after a poisonous fuel unintentionally reanimated all of its corpses. In a press launch, director/author Steve Wolsh constructed up the teaser by revealing it was made completely with practifcal results and on-location, and the cemetery Tarman walks by means of was constructed to copy the primary movie’s Resurrection Cemetery. “Using our widescreen anamorphic lenses, we captured the sensible snow results swirling towards the night time sky that provides it a tremendous look and texture,” he stated. “It’s going to blow folks 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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