The Return of the Living Dead
“They're back from the grave and ready to party!”
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
Genres
Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Studio
Hemdale Film Corporation
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Return of the Living Dead performed
Budget
$4.0M
Worldwide Gross
$14.2M
Gross Profit
$10.2M
Return
3.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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