OCT. 26

OCT. 26

· By Eric Tsuyoshi Yee

OCT. 26

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The story begins where the classic horror movie ''Night of the Living Dead" left off. When Frank and Freddy, employees of the Uneeda Medical Supply company, decide to check out the rumors surrounding the metal cylinders stored in the basement-cylinders reportedly containing the bodies of captured zombies-they've no idea of the horror awaiting them! Frank confidently slaps the side of a cylinder, and to both their horror, a putrid green vapor spurts out. The men are overcome by the fumes. Inside the cases bodies begin to stir. Their hunger for human brains is as urgent as ever. But this time it's not a movie. This time it's for real! The living dead start chanting for " live brains"…

…And they get them, in one horror scene after another.

Return of Living Dead (1985) trailer

 

The Cremator (1969)

Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium manager in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only true relief from human suffering. When he is recruited by the Nazis, Kopfrkingl’s increasingly deranged worldview drives him to formulate his own shocking final solution. Blending the blackest of gallows humor with disorienting expressionistic flourishes—queasy point-of-view shots, distorting lenses, jarring quick cuts—the controversial, long-banned masterpiece The Cremator is one of cinema’s most trenchant and disturbing portraits of the banality of evil.

The Cremator (1969) trailer