Review of "Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave," DVD

 Review of 

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, DVD

Two out of five stars

A movie with two personalities

 Since the main theme is that of zombies, this movie is fundamentally designed to be a horror movie. In that respect, it is a failure. Embedded within the plot are the actions of two men that try to act out the personalities of old Soviet KGB agents. They dress the part, speak with poor accents of Russian English speakers and try to inject a bit of humor into the movie. That also fails. There is also a weak attempt to titillate by showing a few scenes of young topless females. Twenty seconds or so of skin are not enough to push this movie up to good. 

 The basic premise is that the U. S. government has a secret project where they have created genuine, slimy zombies. There are three zombies in locked canisters complete with green slime. The uncle of one of the young main male characters has somehow acquired the cannisters and is trying to monetarily profit from them.  The young character acquires the canisters when he dies and one of his friends samples the slime. It proves to be highly psychoactive and another friend that is an ace chemist manages to extract the juice and make capsules from it. At the time, they do not know that the capsules will turn them into zombies. 

 There is a giant rave on Halloween, and it becomes a zombie feeding frenzy. The two agents attend the party with weapons, and they manage to survive long enough to call for U. S. government backup. Their solution is to slaughter all of the people at the rave using guns and missiles. There are attempts by the creators to generate tension, but it does not work. 

 This movie was a strain to watch. Towards the end, my only thought was to wait for the attempt to generate interest by showing one or more topless females. That did happen, but too little, too late. 


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