10 More Unanswered Questions About Return of the Living Dead : Unanswered Questions Episode 35

[@vickielawson3114]

You’re wrong about the half-zombie and the “pain of being dead”. She explicitly explains she means that she can feel herself rot. That’s the pain.

[@DoktorKlaus666]

Also, if the pain of rotting was that intense, it could easily dull the pain of physical injury. Imaging your arm was on fire, would you feel it if I poked your arm with a needle.

[@chrismoffatt3639]

I have always argued that these are the scariest of all zombie types given the fact that they can not be killed unless completely obliterated but they also have speed, speech and intelligence.

[@zombiesmith5735]

That’s precisely why they freaked me out so much when I first watched the movie.

[@Lachdanun]

On top of which not just simple intellectual thoughts, if I may add to that as Tar Man, used a chain from a winch to rip off a door he couldnt open.

[@JonO387]

So, not zombies.

[@zombiesmith5735]

@@JonO387 they are indeed zombies. They are not the shambling zombies in Romero’s films, but they definitely are zombies. Unless the only thing you consider to be zombies are mindless walking corpses.

[@briesthoughts2261]

Agreed!! These are super scary zombies. They can’t be re-killed!!

[@zombiesmith5735]

I loved how this film revolutionized the zombie genre. It was brilliant in that it explained not only how, exactly the dead are reanimated, but their motivation for eating brains. Sadly, they don’t make movies like this anymore. A true gem of a film.

[@JonO387]

I don't recognize this as a zombie movie.

[@SatanicBarbeque]

@@JonO387 Well good for you, you're wrong lol

[@funkyreapercat5280]

@@JonO387 I missed the part where that's my problem.

[@RahShanProductionsMTU]

@@JonO387I don’t see why you wouldn’t recognize it as a zombie film. Is it because they don’t walk slow? Do you consider dawn of the dead or train to busan zombie films?

[@NukeCaulfield]

​@@JonO387I don't recognize your opinion as a valid one.

[@RoeVenturesLLC]

You forgot, the cadaver, ran to Bert as the only one not infected from the gas.

[@OpEditorial]

The inconsistencies in Return of the Living Dead is a huge part of its charm, there's a halloween store tackiness that makes it super fun to rewatch.

[@b3ntl33]

I feel the pain of death was the equivalent of what amputees experience: Phantom Pain. Their brain and nervous system is still functional, but their whole body is effectively dead, but the nerves still fire even if the pathways aren't available. They strain their muscles and fight against the rigor mortis affecting their bodies. Like if your whole body was having both a charlie-horse and having fallen asleep all the time.

[@thatguy913]

I think it's all in there head completely, they feel pain but it's just their brain freaking out not linked to their body's actual state at all

[@zombiesmith5735]

But much, much worse than the pain of a charlie horse. Imagine the worst charlie horse you ever had, amplify that by a factor of 10, then apply it to every muscle and organ in your body. That’s about what rigor morris would feel like. I can’t even imagine what general decomposition would feel like.

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@zombiesmith5735what’s a Charlie house?

[@zombiesmith5735]

@@CashelOConnolly a charlie horse is just another name for a bad leg cramp. I’m not sure where the term originated.

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@zombiesmith5735 ok ,is it an American phrase? I’ve never heard it used in Ireland. Thank you for replying. Have a great 2024 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️

[@RealElMaximo]

My doppelgänger theory is that Part II is a fever dream Frank has just before he dies in the crematorium.

[@thatguyulove2hate632]

That's pretty interesting

[@zombiesmith5735]

Here is something that is also a head-scratcher…..the brain decomposes very quickly after death. Within just a few days it’s a basically like a big glob of pudding. Within a few weeks, it’s essentially liquified. So there would be no way for a zombie that’s been dead for even just a few days, to think or reason. In fact, any motor function would be just random f contractions of muscle as there would be no way for the puddle of goo that the brain has become to send any signals to the muscles.

[@hakeimwatts6987]

This isn't a costume it's a way of life r.i.p mark venturini

[@peterdanior4538]

#1 - my theory as far as why Trash’s mouth do that, she died from fear and she died screaming

[@TattooedVVitch]

Good theory. I can see that.

[@chrisschuler2278]

She did die by her worst fear...

[@robd1329]

....T-virus

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

She got that way from budget cuts and realizing she worked on a lame movie.

[@EWSantiago]

I think Trash's jaw got mutanted by the 2-4-5 Trioxin rain. When it started raining and they all ran back to the car. The roof started leaking and 2-4-5 Trioxin rain fell all in Trash's mouth. That and the marijuana she had smoked I believe caused her to mutate.

[@creepycody8480]

I definitely agree with 95% of the Trash theory. Her completely being naked when the Trioxin Rain comes down would mean she's absorbing the chemical more than everyone else. I personally believe when the zombies held her down on the muddy ground, they could sense she was far too contaminated with Trioxin to be of any real use to them and soon left her where she was. She most likely died of intense fear (which is ironic considering she used to find death arousing but in the moment she was completely horrified) The combination of the Trioxin exposure & the marijuana in her system may have led to some kind of genetic alteration. Making her into something different compared to most Trioxin zombies. I would even go so far to say that she's not even in pain like the other zombies. When she wakes up & arises she's seems to be relishing her new undead existence, feeling more fulfilled than she did in life. I think it's scarier if she's killing for pleasure rather than out of desperation like most Trioxin zombies. As for the whole mutated face thing... personally I don't think it's needed. I think Trash's natural looks would be useful in luring victims to her. It just seemed like the face was done more for cheap scares rather than the story itself. Just my opinion tho. Great video 🤟💯

[@Loreweavver]

Could be something to the marijuana and the pain relief actually...

[@isaacfernandez6694]

Trash's death is ironic. Because she says her fear is to be surrender by old male and eaten alive. So I would agree maybe it was scared to death or they drowned her. Also the fear was most likely Intensified by seeing that guy get his brain eaten.

[@alfsleftnut9224]

I also think she drowned in the puddle/got trampled/bitten sligtly(even if the zombies ultimately left her) and finally died.

[@Beardo2517]

I gotta say Freddys acting when his body was dying was incredible. You really felt his pain

[@play-doh5863]

As always great work man. Return of the living dead was the first zombie movie I saw as a little kid and it scared the hell out of me.

[@scottneil1187]

My favourite zombie film is Zombie Flesh Eaters, I was a kid when I watched that one too, banger of a film!. Bloody love these films too (up to 3 that is).

[@robertmanes9333]

The scariest part was the beginning acting like the event actually happened

[@leonweskeradac8239]

Especially when they show intelligence to trick people, got goosebumps when the lured the cops

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

When the colonel says "not again" in the second movie, maybe he's referring to a zombie outbreak in another place than the place in the first movie. There may have been other incidents that were covered up.

[@GladDestronger]

Who knows how many the army covered up?

[@scottieman2]

This is without a doubt my favorite zombie movie of all time.

[@peterdanior4538]

My favorite movie of any kind

[@danthegreaser71]

Mine too!

[@JonO387]

It's not even a zombie movie.

[@RahShanProductionsMTU]

@@JonO387it’s definitely a zombie movie it’s The zombie movie. I don’t care what Romero has to say about how zombies should act.

[@Michael-sb8jf]

@@JonO387 A zombie is a reanimated corpse these are reanimated corpses The person that wrote the script for this movie helped Romero write and direct the original Night of the Living Dead. I think he knows a thing or too about zombies

[@butchvito]

Thom Matthews and James Karen had tremendous chemistry together. I would have liked to see them do more films together.

[@raz0rbladeapolo]

They do specifically state that the pain is physical. They can feel themselves rot, as stated by torso zombie. Even after Fred is clinically dead and a zombie the rigor mortis causes physical pain. Through some movie sci-fi their functions still continue as they can smell and talk. That means they also can get bursts of adrenaline, likely when going for the kill, so that could explain the lack of reaction some zombie have to attacks. Later in the film attacking a hand causes a zombie to recoil so it likely feels pain. Maybe it just depends on how fresh they are?

[@JS-wp4gs]

I'd say the most important question is how they ever managed to get the zombies into the barrels in the first place. It doesn't seem like something they'd have done willingly let alone easily

[@robertodell9193]

It's not that hard to get a zombie into a barrel. You just tell the zombie that there are brains in the barrel. Or maybe the dead bodies were already in the barrel when they were exposed to the Trioxin.

[@classicnosh]

Although not confirmed as canon, it's implied that during the initial incident at the VA hospital, the zombies were bound and placed inside barrels, which were then sealed with welding torches. The chemists were aware that burning them would lead to gas contamination.

[@Ravenite456]

My question is how often does Trash strip off in graveyards? They acted like it was a regular occurrence.

[@peterdanior4538]

Trash is taking off her clothes again

[@robertmanes9333]

She is the original THOT

[@AB-80X]

Not really. They acted like it was a regular occurrence that she stripped. But not in a graveyard.

[@DanT.Inferno]

Fun fact - there are two novels called ROTLD by John Russo. One is a direct sequel to NOTLD and the other a novelisation (Trash is called Legs).

[@MrRjh63]

Q1: The less fun answer to why Trash has a monster face is i read somewhere that having her run around naked the whole film with her face unaltered would have resulted in a nc-17 rating. Q6: Electrocution doesnt just stop your heart and disrupt your nerve signals. It , if you are left on the live wire, will immolate you(burned from within) since it uses your nerves as conductors (wires) and the wattage cooks you from the inside out and destroys those nerves in the process. It also cooks all your internal organs and boils your blood.

[@thomson753089]

Exactly! The die hard fans have created thier own far fetched mythos about this film and alot of it just comes from it being a badly written dodgy effects ridden B movie! A classic awesome one at that! Wats shown on screen is all there is to it like wen trash gets her brain eaten by the gang of zombies! There was never ever any intention of them not bothering eatin her brain coz they could sense she was already dead due to the exposure of the rain lol

[@passdatsmokedogg1835]

Or the zombies I'm guessing smart enough that they only bite her cause trash could be a possible asset to more brain with her sex appeal like when the zombies bite the cops

[@zombiesmith5735]

Trash wasn’t already dead because of the rain. If that were the case, all of the characters would be dead (except maybe Ernie) because they were exposed to the rain. She becomes a zombie only after being killed and left laying in a big pool of Trioxin contaminated rain water. However, both Freddie and Frank did die immediately after taking a blast of Trioxin right to their faces and inhaling it directly. It’s specifically why the Tarman didn’t munch on their brains and let them be. It’s actually explained in interviews and in a “making of” book that came out several years ago. The director, Dan O’Bannon, was surprised that audiences didn’t immediately pick up on that fact.

[@DanT.Inferno]

There was a special edition vinyl picture disc of the first film's soundtrack. Side one's picture was zombies, side two was Trash and her cans.

[@robertmanes9333]

Yummy yummy punk rock girls

[@TheMovieBuff96]

Fun fact about question #5, technically Tarman surviving the first movie is canon! That Tarman makes another appearance in part five; Rave to the Grave. He even survives that movie, too, and is shown trying to hitch-hike at the end of the movie.

[@mechajason]

Wait really I never saw that

[@Justitia_Nomen]

@@mechajason it was kinda terrible so you didn’t miss anything.

[@zombiesmith5735]

Same actor, but not the same Tarman. While a Tarman did make an appearance in part 2 and in Rave To The Grave, the one from the first film is not the same one as part two. Remember, Burt knocked his “goddamn block off” in part one. I mean he Mark McGwire’d Tarman’s head. In part 2, the Tarman has head still fully attached to his body. Now, the Tarman from part 2 could conceivably be the same one that shows up in Rave To The Grave. Tarman zombies are just the result of the zombies in the canisters/drums being rapidly exposed to the air. It causes their flesh to very quickly liquify, or melt. So, any of the zombies in the canister would become Tarmen (or Tarwomen) under those circumstances.

[@Justitia_Nomen]

@@zombiesmith5735 getting his blocked knocked off didn’t kill him so maybe he just reattached it??

[@zombiesmith5735]

@@Justitia_Nomen reattached it with what, bailing wire and a glue gun they happened to have laying around for just such an occasion?😂

[@mockmonkey1]

I always thought that the "Death is Painful" was a sick joke from Dan O'Bannon. Some people think that after you die it's nothingness or all your pain goes away. To find out that "Death is Painful" would really suck. LOL! I liked that James Karen and Thom Mathews were brought back for the sequel they were a great comedy pairing.

[@peterdanior4538]

Not sure if this was covered in any of the discussions about Ernie, but an interesting character choice was how they have Ernie say that burning animals alive is cruel.

[@Astro-Monster]

A bit ironic coming from a nazi

[@MrVietDonger-y9l]

Another thing is Trash was taken down and eaten and in grave yard but her skull was in tact...well same with the one cop who help ambush the other cops

[@casual_villain]

That moment when you realize Tarman is having a 24/7 existential crisis.

[@Amy_Ramirez03]

One of my favorite zombie horror comedy.. I dig the soundtrack Trash’s transition to zombie looks more demonic

[@BlackhartHill]

Sorry for the wall of text but this is my take. 1. Trash's look is due to her jaw being broken from her skull. That's why it is always hanging. 2. The cop was the same just brainless or enough to stand there and wave a light but does not react. That's why he was slow to run up to feed only after seeing the rest attack. 3. Frank and Freddy are not alt twins. this was an alt-universe. they ended up in similar work and the general was a general in that world as well he said not again as he may have been referring to the creation of the "pods" 4. The Tar "MEN" are different zombies but they were all from the "pods" they were the first zombies and not preserved well. 5. Electrocution kills all cells. leaving the body intact but 99% destroyed internally. 6. the pain curbing the hunger was on the freshness of the zombie. more decay more pain Julie was fresh as the entire movie was in one night. As for Freddy, the acid in the phase was more shock of sudden blindness rather than pain he also was more aware after looking for them so pain might override the hunger but only temporary. 7. the tryoxin used in part 3 was the original chemical rather than the dead body fermented gas from the first and second films. 8. part 4 was a sequel to the first part. and part 5 was to part 2. different timelines.

[@vampirascoffin870]

The greatest horrorpunk movie of all time! 💀🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

[@robertmanes9333]

“This ain't a costume.. It's a way of life!!”

[@danthegreaser71]

I agree!

[@thatguy3332]

Maybe the cop reanimated after Frank burned himself in the incinerator?

[@ShadowAlley]

You're very underrated brother!... As a fellow content creator (and yinzer) I'm amazed at the amount of work you put into every video and the frequency at which you upload!... You're crushing it! #props

[@juiciestslice6430]

Terrific video! I love Unanswered Questions episodes so much! I feel like the Tar Man dissolving in the water would an ecological disaster and could lead to a Cabin Fever situation. Like, how far could the chemicals get before they were diluted out of being a danger?

[@greenkoopa]

In the absence of any other explanation, I do accept that as canon. Bottom line? Return Earth really, really sucks.

[@ZacharyVogt]

I've said it many times, and will continue to repeat it: I love many things on this channel, but Unanswered Questions will always be my favorite.

[@LondraCalibro9]

Possibly your best 'unanswered questions' yet. Nice work. thank you.

[@scottneil1187]

I'd say not just this one but the first three are essential.

[@LondraCalibro9]

@@scottneil1187 agreed. Many dislike part 2, I can kind of see why, but I still like it a lot. 1 and 3 are superb. The later ones are god awful.

[@danthegreaser71]

Maybe Trash was made of Marijuana and the Trioxin was breaking her down. LOL 😆

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete]

As ROTLD Superfan! This was awesome

[@themadpancaker]

The electrocution thing never bothered me in Part 2. I always just assumed the current would destroy the nervous system throughout the body and thus their ability to move/live. And I first heard the rumor as CHUD 2 was an unused script for Part 2, not 3, which would be more believable for the time frame. Although there are some similarities between CHUD 2 and Part 3, like freezing the zombies that gives the idea merit. Who knows, maybe great minds just think alike when coming up with B movie sequel plots?

[@pluto545]

I think so, too. Electrocution is pretty effective way to kill just about anything, extended electrocutions gives an almost unavoidable outcome of death. Since, it's not concentrated to one area of the body, but most of the body with most of the nerves and major organs included. Outside of a large-scale fire or nuclear blast, it would probably be the most effective thing that could kill these types of zombies or creatures.

[@TattooedVVitch]

My theory on the cop is he had a massive coronary event or an aneurysm ruptured causing brain death. Then is face down in the toxic rain causing reanimation. His brain was intact so he returned. Just my weirdo theory.

[@movietimelines]

that works!

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete]

Solid Theory.

[@janoliver8713]

@@movietimelinesit has to work because, if you look at the cop alive and dead, he has the same watch on. Unless the zombies where smart enough to also put on his watch 😊

[@infectedwithrage5527]

I have an idea for question #3, the bites do cause infection and possibly bites in the brain take longer because it's harder for the chemical to reanimate as fast without the nervous system working. Suicide was going to turn but wasn't yet and since they likely blocked off the room where Scuz was in he likely turned faster because that bite didn't even reach the brain and he likely was trapped in there once turning. The cop was bitten on the body or something and turned faster. Not perfect but something I got.

[@Nicolas.Vincent]

Tarantino has a theory that Part 3 was written as a sequel to Re-Animator, but they reworked it for the Return franchise.

[@Nicolas.Vincent]

​@albertastrength1026Tell it to Q.

[@kyleellis1825]

The cop zombie had a steel plate in his skull, so while the zombies tried to get into his skull, he had enough time to turn?

[@movietimelines]

lol. i like that.

[@Dazs]

Great video and coverage on return of the living dead!

[@baronvg]

Man, as a fan of Return of the Living Dead series (1-3), I was sooooo hyped when parts 4 & 5 were coming out. Holy shit was I incredibly disappointed and ANGRY with how terrible they were. It was without a doubt one of the worst things to happen to me in the 2000s 🤣

[@zombiesmith5735]

Yeah, at least with part 2, the writers/director were familiar with what the first film has established. What I didn’t like is that they went from the subtle dark humor of the first film to over the top goofiness with the second. And they took a few too many liberties with what had already been established in part 1.

[@THE-ERADICATOR]

That's the only way I can accept that shitty FUCKING movie

[@thewhizard]

tarman escaped and returned in "Return of the Living Dead: Rave from the Grave"

[@martybergmann9345]

So, what if the first one was a dream like Joey said it felt like? That would also explain why nothing stopped them in the first one. The dream didn't show a way.

[@mechajason]

Maybe they’re actually in a coma and there dreaming I’ve heard that people in coma they will dream whatever you tell them so maybe someone called them to imagine a zombie apocalypse where they die

[@BlokHeadAnim]

​@@mechajason Man, if it is a coma, maybe the zombies are a metaphor cooked up by Joey's own brain to try and explain to itself what it is going through. Imagine being unable to move, strapped into a hospital bed, able to feel your body wither but being unable to do anything. That very much would be like "the pain of being dead".

[@baggywhiskers]

Deep silver is rumored to have aquired the Return Of The Living Dead video game, previously developed by gamejolt studios. I played the demo before it was taken out of the Steam store and it was cool as hell. Trash is one of the bosses and can control other zombies by screaming like the screamers in Dead Island 2.

[@ih8theantichrist]

I've always believed that the electricity fried the nerves, which is what trioxin reanimates.

[@notimportant3394]

I like Part 2 because it's in the suburbs, a small downtown area. It's rare to find good horror in those settings.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

About the pain thing, I thinkvits physical. They just don't react as much as a human Obviously it's emotionally painful but I think the half zombie girl meant it literally aches and hurts to rot. They just don't shriek as much as a normal human because they're desensitized to it

[@stikkisoxx]

I saw this one when I was 15, in the theatre back when it came out, one of my favorites. Recently discovered your channel, really enjoying it!! Thanks!

[@Asertix357]

I first saw it at home on some channel or another. Probably far too young to actually be watching it. Oh and for added bonus we had a rain/thunderstorm going on at the time, so the weather was matching that on the screen.

[@stikkisoxx]

@@Asertix357 Do you like Starblazers?

[@Asertix357]

@@stikkisoxx I'm not sure, I've never seen it before.

[@greenkoopa]

🤔 I saw Scream 2 in the theater when I was 11...you might be older than me. Can't confirm 🐢

[@stikkisoxx]

@@Asertix357 Great early anime, check it out..

[@RichardPulfer]

Alternative zombie cop theory: maybe the zombie horde ate just enough to still allow reanimation. This particular zombie doesn't seem to have much brain power left given his dull expression. Thus maybe the zombies ate almost all of brain, leaving a bare minimum to produce a shell of a zombie.

[@period8705]

With question number 4 you can see it like this, Chris Evans is captain America but he was Johnny Storm before.

[@Mlotshaw1]

The zombie cut in half they talked to had just recently eaten which is why it's so mellow it's interesting if you look the zombie is secreting some sort of spinal fluid. Could be a result of the recent eating making them secrete some sort of enzyme in the spinal fluid which should be long dried up in this corpse

[@shanekelley9042]

I always thought death by brain damage does not cause you to come back as a zombie

[@BennyLlama39]

It probably boils down to, "Which set of rules is the screenwriter playing by?" 🙂

[@mahada9546]

And I love how the civil war zombie knew how to operate a cb radio…

[@just4joebob]

Damn dude you're passionate about the subject material. SUBSCRIBED.

[@gaetanbattaglia4036]

In terms of the cop who flags down the others, I think that is him. I think that he was killed by the zombies when the rain wasn't so hard. When it kicked up again, it must have turned him. Trash must have been the same way, brought back by the rain and not the zombie bites.

[@karenrael2898]

@@gaetanbattaglia4036 sounds like a winner

[@DefConprime28]

@16:15 when you said some zombies didn't head that way it's probably because they didn't have a head anyway lol well it was funnier in my head

[@jeremybrooks7637]

Couldn't the electricity fried the zombies brains

[@aedes947]

Trash theory makes sense exactly because of the joint and the original purpose of the trioxin

[@torytellstales]

One thing I will always cherish about the first ROTLD movie is that some of the puppeteers who puppeteered the zombies are some of the same people who worked on the puppets of Sesame Street, which is funny considering two characters in this movie are named after Bert and Ernie. You think the Wicked Witch appearing on Sesame Street was bad? Just imagine if Tarman decided to give Sesame Street a visit 😆😆😆😆

[@LUCKO2022]

Well look at Walking Dead, allot of the people who worked on the Romero films like Greg Nicitero also work on Walking Dead.

[@juliomendoza7681]

For electric charge and in the movie high voltage even without a pulse is meat and meat can conduct electricity and hight voltage burn and destroy the body similar to fire.

[@hdanielmartinez7045]

Trash's obsession with death somehow turned her into the Queen of the living dead (Thats what Im going with Lol!) . I thought the characters inhabit a sort of multi-dimensional universe much like the marvel nonsense so theoretically at least, these are the same individuals in an alternate reality. 🧟‍♀

[@DefConprime28]

@28:14 The reason why these zombies are dumber or smarter is common core math

[@ShaggyShagz13]

My electricity theory. Sustained voltage burns their neurons. Like when holding the power button on the electric flyswatter after getting the fly stuck to it until it burns.

[@SneakyHoboJesus]

truthfully, part 3 is my favorite of the bunch. Great video, thanks bub!

[@scottneil1187]

Same.

[@Skarrz72]

The electricity part in this video reminds of Billy Idol's, Dancin' with myself.

[@nerdygoth6905]

It's not that Trash is different because she's Queen of the Zombies?

[@brianfinlay756]

When they grab the cop and he falls., he smacks his head on the ground. His head opens up and some of the trioxin from a puddle in the ground gets into the wound . When the first zombie bites into his head, he dies. Then the trioxin that is already in his head reanimates him instantly.

[@movietimelines]

that works!

[@clownprince88]

electricity burns also because of the heat it generates and they were zapped with about 50,000 volts and who knows how many amps since it was a substation so in part 2 i'm thinking they were burned from the inside out rendering them officially deceased and unable to function anymore , it makes perfect sense why electrocution would "kill" them , just check out some safety videos of people who got electrocuted with 480 volts , it can actually jump from a panel , you don't even have to touch it , the person is instantly cooked , on higher voltage it happens so fast they become almost mummified in the position they got zapped , if anything , the effect in part 2 was unrealistic , at that voltage they wouldn't have been dancing around all that time before being "killed" and anything can conduct electricity or be a conduit to it , even wood , so rotting flesh would still be a conductor making them vulnerable to it's effect

[@MrDman21]

Trioxin sounds similar to the stuff they sprayed on the weed in Jacob's Ladder too.

[@MrDman21]

@KMVS8686 cool

[@AgentNintaku]

Don't forget that enough electrocution does more than just disrupt your heartbeat, it can outright cook you. That's more likely what happened at the end of Part 2, given the source of the electricity and the duration of exposure.

[@mattias969]

Bites do turn you the cop probably turned fast so they stopped eating him. And the sequel is set in a parallel universe. The reason the Colonel says not again is because it happened before in the events that made romero make notld. All zombies in the barrels turn into tar men. Elctrocution causes alot more damage than heart damage it literally burns you alive especially if taken directly from a transformer. Ive seen it in real life and it plays on my retina atleast once daily.

[@mortikarobinette5381]

OK question about the cop. He has the shower cap on top of his hat. So maybe he was out in the rain before and it got into his system then. You don't see them actually bite into his head so maybe it's the same as Trash.

[@craigraboteau7024]

THANK YOU! I could never believe that I was the only person who wondered why Trash's face changed, but I couldn't find anything on line even addressing the issue! I'm glad its not just me! lol

[@zmbdog]

I didn't wonder why her face changed. I wondered why she has NO visible injuries. She's nude and there's not a scratch on her! I guess the zombies just crowded her to death?

[@craigraboteau7024]

@@zmbdog I wondered the same. However, she may have just been drowned. Why they would drown her rather than eating her, I have no idea lol

[@robertodell9193]

The zombies gave Trash a fatal group hug and she's too cute to eat that's why she has no visible injuries.

[@cdevil9488]

You missed some other important questions that need answers. 1. Why did Burt keep the tanks in the first place? Clearly, they were dangerous military property. Since they were accidentally delivered, he could have returned them with no issue, and may even have been paid off to keep his silence. 2. Why didn't ALL the punks get sick from the Trioxin-laced rain? Trioxin exposure obviously transformed Frank, Freddie, and Trash. While there may not have been enough time for the punks to all die and reanimate, they should have at least gotten sick. 3. How was the torso zombie able to speak? On the table, it can clearly be seen the torso zombie has no lungs or diaphragm, and for that matter no lips, yet she's able to speak with perfect clarity. 4. Why did they burn the bodies out in the open at the end of part 2? As seen in part 1, burning a Trioxin-laced body releases Trioxin into the air. Burning the bodies with flamethrowers would have created a potential new outbreak.

[@angrydrunkengerman2819]

Man I love this movie. This may be the perfect 80's horror comedy that touched a little on everything going on. Punk and teen angst, nuclear war fears, military mistakes impacting the present, government bungling disasters, and facing what seems like an unbeatable enemy you don't truly understand. And it's just a fun popcorn flick as well...

[@decepticonleader316]

any zombie stored in the barrel look like the tar zombie.

[@Thathorrorguy12FU]

I thought it was hilarious how they brought them back for the second film, and then the Easter Eggs are even more funny. They are new characters and add the Easter Eggs because of the obvious casting of the film.

[@kaysebain1004]

Lol me and you think alike about why the same actors were in the first two films I was like oh thats easy they're twins 😂 😂

[@KanjiHunter]

You’re delusional need for closure is quite amusing. Thank you for that. 😂👍

[@Plan9-3127]

Seriously... I've lost count of how many times I've watched this flick... All these questions are valid and I'd be lying if I said I've never asked them myself. It's fun to come up with theory's for answers! Thanks for making this video and keeping the genre alive!

[@EJB450]

Cop theory: When they tackle him, there are so many that the force of them smashes him to the ground, breaking his neck and damaging his brain enough to kill him near instantly. Thus, he is dead before they can crack open his head, scoop him clean and therefore he can "return".

[@juliomendoza7681]

But the same happend to the paramedics and literal they tear apart the head, probably they only took the uniform

[@Yellowstone3000]

The real question is how did she become a zombie, if the zombies only eat brains, and we seen 3 people get thier brain eaten but didnt come bsck as a zombie

[@davidkerk5676]

The pain is caused by the brain functioning but the nurons are no longer firing like perpetual pins and needles dialed up to 11. Eating brains gives a temporary infusion of nurons.

[@paulbrown6464]

With the brain being needed point, what about the skeleton zombie that rises up and open its mouth, would all the flesh have rotted away and the brain didn’t rot at all?

[@movietimelines]

good question. i discussed this a bit in my first volume of Return questions, and i figure there's just enough brain left for it come back.

[@scottneil1187]

​@@movietimelines Ah-Hah! Then why doesn't ambulance man come back?, you can see brain in there and he's lying on the ground outside.

[@movietimelines]

good question! and i think i talk about that in the first video too, and yeah, it doesn't make much sense, but i suppose it's either a "certain amount" of brain. or possibly a particular area of the brain that's needed. i mean, i know it doesn't really make sense, but it's all in fun anyway.

[@paulbrown6464]

You have it right, Josh, these films are all such fun

[@chuckmckendry194]

I never even knew there was a ROTLD 4&5.

[@movietimelines]

you may be better off there.

[@scottneil1187]

Don't even look for the myriad of awful new entries in the NotLD franchise.

[@jacksonknightproductions8697]

Return of the Living Dead 4 is actually my favorite in the series. While I will admit that I do highly suspect that parts 4 and especially 5 were originally unrelated zombie movies and were converted into ROTLD movies at the last minute. But still, part 4 just really resonates with me.

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

You strange, strange, STRANGE dude

[@scottneil1187]

Made it about ten mins into that dumpster fire, haven't even looked at any other new entries to this or Romero's series.

[@MAMoreno]

It's not my favorite, but it's the only sequel that I consider to have a worthwhile premise as a follow-up to the first film's events. The second one is just the first movie all over again. The third one feels completely out of place in this series. And the fifth one...is garbage.

[@alucardtepes4420]

cop zambie was exposed to the trioxin rain, he was eating a donut off screen and some raindrops fell on it, and was going to become a zombie regardless

[@bloodmooncomics2249]

The cop one, maybe too many attacked at once. We see him hit the ground making contract with the chemicals. Maybe they killed him but too many attacked causing them to not be able to reach before he turned. Like if too many people are trying to beat up someone when they are on the ground they can end up hitting each other/ blocking each other's hits. Second maybe (and more likely): the zombies knew more would come and knew to keep one undead to attract. These zombies are not dumb and now that keeping one going could get more. Explains why they attacked him, but not eating his brain, yet eaten the other guy fully. They only needed one to trick everyone else. They knew whatever group that showed up would be able to tell if it was the right guy or someone dressed like him.

[@ah-hx2uc]

I think the zombies drowned the cop to use him to get to all the others.

[@deve8_exe]

I think the zombies in the second movie die to electricity, not beacause of the electricity itself, rather what a current can create. Heat. (granted I havent seen the movie and am going soley off clips you show). In one of the clips I see, a zombie is bleeding out of its orifices. Mouth, eyes, nose, etc, while being electrocuted. This makes me think its insides are melting, which would coincide with them being suceptible to heat, as in the first movie, their weakness is said to be an atomic blast, or a furnace, both things creating heat.

[@Ashadowtotheworld]

I think the Tash thing is purely an artistic license thing... she is the main attraction in the film so her makeup budget allowed for a more elaborate and goulish transformation. I don't think there is really much else to it. The cop is really a mystery. The pain is physical.

[@Katrulzin]

I was born in 83 and saw return of the living dead many times since I was about 8 years old. I have reached to the same conclusions in pretty much all of your theories. However, I have a few differences and in regards to the cop and the zombies being intelligent i.e calling for more cops and paramedics (like some kind of food delivery order lol) that I'm sure they expected they would send more back up and intentionally didn't eat all of the cop and only at the top of the head which the hat conceals, and that the huge amount of zombies attacking was to simply ensure that he would be subdued that would eventually give them a proper meal.... MORE BRAINS! Big brain for more brain, am I right? 😂🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟🤓 Also, in regards to the pain of being dead some pain is worse than others i.e stubbing your toe verses it getting mangled and maimed. So they feel pain but since they're already in a state of pain that's possibly greater than what's being inflicted, it appears that it doesn't affect them and that their goal of eating brains to end the pain motivates them enough to overcome any pain they may face and that the reason Freddy was stunned by the acid is because the eyes are more sensitive than most other parts of the body and the sensation of burning is probably greater than having a bullet cleanly go through them. Just my thoughts anyways that makes sense to me. By the way, you can tell Tarman had moved Suicide and see him lying directly on the pulley chain, facing the opposite way of when he originally fell to the ground. Perhaps Tarman was trying to use the chain to move Suicide with the wench pulley to perhaps get him in the barrel to revive him? And maybe he gave up that endeavor seeing how large Suicide was and instead went upstairs trying to free himself and tried to get Suicide to help him in his escape given his superior physical stature. Finally, the idea of mental pain is also pretty spot on, kinda like opioid withdrawal (albeit more severe) where you're not being physically injured, but you are still suffering with unbearable physical and psychological sensations of pain and depression. Needing a dose of brains to feel normal again with all the neurotransmitters that the zombies lack. The brain is a chemical producing & absorbing engine after all. Plus the zombies most likely lack the stomach enzymes that would destroy those neurotransmitters, allowing them to be absorbed. Pseudoscience yes, but like you said it's fun to think about lol. EDIT: Acid that was first mentioned in TROTLD was most likely a better solution than burning with fire as it has the same effect but without the smoke and probably minimal vapor. So I include acid along with fire and nukes, especially how a little bit of it was so effective against Freddy. It really is to my mind the only way to solve the problem without repeating it again and spreading the chemical further. Lastly, I always found the names Burt and Ernie hilarious as some kind of Sesame street reference. Not to mention the Easter egg concerning Ernie's past, which I won't spoil what that is and plus KZbin will probably remove my comment due to key words.

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

Part 4 & 5 DON'T exist....That is all

[@phoenix78240]

as far as the cop situation i honestly think since its a low budget movie and needed extra bodies for different scenes they may of just reused the actor in a different one. as far the same actors and same zombie, i believe it has to be a alternate dimension.

[@knowthispodcast9182]

My guess is that The Brain is full of a bunch of different hormones, including the hypothalamus, and maybe if the zombie eats certain parts of the brain or in combination with a bunch of other hormones from the brain, it causes a euphoric state, basically like getting high, and it causes them to forget about the pain of being dead? Kind of like the Gathoga in the relic. How it needed the hormones from the brain in order to live or something like that. But also, it could be a neurological thing? When that one corpse said she could feel her body rotting.? Maybe she meant not exactly literal pain, but a deeper neurological pain. I’m no doctor and I’m not even going to try but interesting.

[@amitypredator9385]

I think the idea of the electricity killing them is it's completely and utterly destroying the brain whereas a bullet or a pick ax can only harm a part of it.

[@tonyphillips8726]

I don't have time to watch this right now... but I look forward to watching it tonight!