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• Horror, Comedy
Eighteen months after the events at the UNEEDA Warehouse in Louisville, KY, a new Trioxin 2-4-5 leak puts a small Pennsylvania town on the brink of a zombie outbreak during Christmas 1985.
Movie Saga1985 – 2005
Return of the Living Dead Collection
6 Films
6.1 Avg Rating
$23.5M Saga Box Office
1.31x Commercial Multiplier
The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead.
Franchise Box Office Economics
Combined theatrical financials and commercial performance across all 6 installments.
Total Worldwide Gross
$23.5M
Cumulative box office receipts
Total Production Budget
$18M
Combined studio investments
Average Gross / Film
$3.9M
Average theatrical return
Commercial Multiple
1.31x
Worldwide Gross vs Budget
Films in Saga(6)
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7.2(2385)1h 31m• Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
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6.4(722)1h 29m• Horror, Comedy
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
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6.6(932)1h 37m• Horror, Romance
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
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5.2(267)1h 28m• Action, Horror, TV Movie
In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.
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5.1(231)1h 35m• Action, Horror, TV Movie
A student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' which has the unexpected side effect of resurrecting the dead as flesh-eating zombies, who proceed to wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.