Ho, Ho, Ho, Return of the Dwelling Lifeless Rises Once more!

We’ve had fairly a couple of zombie franchises within the final decade, however one which hasn’t been seen shortly is the Return of the Living Dead movies. The final film dropped all the way in which again in 2005, but it surely appeared issues have been set to alter when a brand new film was introduced in 2023. Fortuitously for followers, the sequence is officlally returning subsequent yr, simply in time for the primary movie’s fortieth anniversary.

After a handful of teaser images on Friday, the studio launched a teaser for the following movie, additionally titled Return of the Dwelling Lifeless. As an alternative of being a reboot as initially believed, it’s truly a continuation of the unique film: set nearly two years later in winter 1985, the Tarman zombie’s again in motion and trying to make some chaos in an unnamed Pennsylvania city the place the brand new movie’s set. Dwelling Lifeless stated to not count on any returning character from the primary film, given their “horrible fates,” however teased audiences shall be “welcomed again into the darkish humored, attractive, edgy, Trioxin fueled world horror followers first encountered.”

The primary Return of the Dwelling Lifeless targeted on a city contaminated by zombies that all of the sudden rose up after a poisonous fuel by accident reanimated all of its corpses. In a press launch, director/author Steve Wolsh constructed up the teaser by revealing it was made totally with practifcal results and on-location, and the cemetery Tarman walks by way of was constructed to copy the primary movie’s Resurrection Cemetery. “Using our widescreen anamorphic lenses, we captured the sensible snow results swirling towards the evening sky that offers it an incredible look and texture,” he stated. “It’s going to blow individuals away seeing a whole movie made like this.”

Return of the Dwelling Lifeless shambles to theaters in Christmas 2025.

[via BloodyDisgusting]

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