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Summary

In this episode, Damo and Lily shake off the New Year cobwebs before diving headfirst into the glorious, gooey chaos of Return of the Living Dead. Expect stupid decisions (lots of them), punks versus zombies, and a film that somehow manages to be hilarious, horrifying, and weirdly philosophical all at once.

Along the way, they pick apart the characters’ baffling choices, celebrate the film’s smart-mouthed, pain-feeling zombies, and get stuck into the dark humour that makes everything hit harder. There’s chat about Trash, nudity, gender, and what it means when a horror film is both exploitative and oddly self-aware. Naturally, Tina’s terrible idea to go looking for Freddie in the middle of a zombie outbreak gets the scrutiny it deserves.

They also revel in the practical effects, the military’s spectacularly unhelpful solution to the problem, and why this film still feels punk as hell decades later. Brains, bad calls, nuclear fallout, and the enduring question at the heart of all great horror — why does everyone keep making the worst possible choice?

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