Trash Is Taking Off Her Clothes Again

"Transport... more... paramedics."

The Render of the Living Dead is a 1985 comedy horror film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon, starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., and Linnea Quigley. It spawned the Return of the Living Expressionless zombie movie series.

Return is based on the premise that Nighttime of the Living Expressionless was based on actual events; information technology seems that in the '60s a chemical called ii-iv-5 Trioxin, adult for utilize as an herbicide in destroying marijuana plants, was accidentally released into a basement morgue of a VA hospital in Pittsburgh, causing the cadavers stored at that place to reanimate. Unable to comprise the undead threat, the armed forces placed the lively corpses inside sealed barrels. And then, to guard against the story leaking out, the government permitted Night of the Living Expressionless to be fabricated, thus roofing up the real incident with a fictional 1.

However, due to a clerical error, a few such Barrels of Doom were shipped to a Louisville, Kentucky medical supply warehouse currently employing our intrepid heroes, and stored there for years. As a attestation to the strength and quality of the barrels, i of them springs a leak as presently as the foreman reassures his new employee of the solid military structure by slapping its side. The Trioxin gets into the cadaver freezer, animating the contents. The shambling, hungry dead escape, craving their favorite food: brains...

Non to be confused with the 1978 novel Return of the Living Expressionless, which was a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead written past that picture's co-writer John Russo (who, confusingly, likewise wrote a novelization of this moving picture).

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This motion picture has the examples of:

• Adaptation Expansion: Russo's novelization adds a KGB subplot to mankind out the origin of Trioxin.
  • A few of the characters' backgrounds (particularly Freddy and Tina) are fleshed out a scrap more than. Their family names are Travis and Vitali respectively. ^note The name of Mia Farrow'southward character in Broadway Danny Rose is Tina Vitali, released a year earlier. Freddy got the job at Uneeda because of the death of a former fellow member of their gang (never mentioned in the picture) from a drug overdose and the former wanted to go his shit together for his own sake every bit well as his girlfriend'south. That said, while it'southward slightly implied in the film, the book does indeed confirm that Freddy is non entirely comfy with being around expressionless things due to seeing the gang member'south body (along with Tina).
  • Tina, on the other paw, is revealed to not like the other members of their grouping of friends too much due to a strict Catholic upbringing and is mentioned to exist uncomfortable during Trash'due south tombstone dance and debauchery in general.
  • A deceased ninth member of the punks, Sunshine, is mentioned with no such reference ever beingness in the film. As mentioned above, he died from an overdose (the verbal drug is unspecified) and Freddy and Tina discovered his corpse in a public restroom. This spurred Freddy on to get a job at the Uneeda Warehouse where he meets Frank and Burt. Trash and Spider discuss Sunshine during their scene in the graveyard only before Trash starts stripping, the former saying that it was probably inevitable.
  • Frank's family name is Nello, his unseen wife is given the name Alice, and is likewise mentioned to have 2 children. Still, no mention of what Casey and Chuck'southward family names are, or what Suicide, Trash, Spider, and Scuz's real names are for that thing.
  • Suicide's mother is a Crazy Cat Lady who evidently takes in strays and keeps them for company. They live in a slum apartment and Suicide stays with her then she tin can take intendance of him. Suicide's machine is mentioned to stink of cat feces and god knows what else. In an example of Adaptation Personality Change, while he brushes off Trash's advances in the flick, he has a total-on sexual activity scene with her in the book and was earlier encouraging her to accept everything off during her trip the light fantastic. Information technology's also mentioned he ever had a thing for her.
  • In spite of the above with Suicide, Trash and Scuz are written to be in a relationship (something that was never alluded to filmwise) plus Spider and Casey are revealed to exist friends with benefits.
  • The corpse that Ernie was working on before Burt and the others came to the morgue is named Morton Dowden, a banker that was killed in a car crash. While Morton upwards and vanishes afterward the yellowish cadaver is burned in the film, the novel expands his role somewhat as his wife, Helen, is fabricated to exist the female half corpse that kills Scuz during the interruption-in. Helen herself even makes note of her hubby who is notwithstanding in the room in the volume.
  • How Chuck came to know Casey in loftier school is established and besides explains that Casey is an atheist, making her reactions to the undead a lot more understandable. A tender moment with Chuck follows and they ultimately exercise the deed dissimilar in the movie. On the religious note, Spider is heavily unsaid to have mostly lost his faith upon Sunshine's death.
• Ambiguous Catastrophe: in the final scene we see that the nuclear explosion has destroyed the agile zombies merely a fresh autumn of contaminated pelting has created at least 1 more new ghoul. Notwithstanding the sequels confirm that the military were able to contain the new outbreak. Information technology is also left unclear if whatever of the characters survived, especially those in the cellar who may have been shielded from the blast (some survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb less than half a mile from Basis Zip).
• And I Must Scream: The zombies in the canisters are even so "alive" and unable to move, trapped in a constant state of rot, unable to dice, and unable to ease their suffering.
  • Good God, the zombies alone take screaming to a whole new level compared to the infected people in 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later. The paramedics literally haul ass to the van when they hear the zombies actually scream. Interestingly, the screaming the zombies practice is what makes the film terrifying.
  • Anyone that's not gnawing on someone's brain is going to scream their lungs out sooner or afterwards upon seeing those things running around and jumping on people and biting their freaking heads off. In fact, several characters minor and major actually scream (well yelling is common in the motion-picture show, but there are some legitimate screams that don't come up from zombies).
• Anachronism Stew: Frank tells Freddy that the Trioxin blow that inspired Night of the Living Expressionless happened in 1969, which is impossible since the movie came out in 1968. It's probably done intentionally since in the original script Frank says the yr it happened was 1966, so it was inverse to show Frank'south Critical Research Failure.
• Armies Are Evil: They are when the solution they unleash without whatsoever hesitation to try to deal with the Trioxin zombie trouble is to nuke an American city.
• Artistic Licence – Biology:
  • Zombies bated, rigor mortis is solely a phenomenon of musculus tissue, hence tin't "start in the encephalon" as the film claims. Livor mortis, aye, rigor no.
  • Besides, information technology'south implied that encephalon-eating soothes the zombies' pain considering of endorphins in brain tissue. But endorphin content in the spinal cord is usually a lot higher than it is in the brain, as that's where signals from near of the body'south hurting-receptors are unremarkably blocked.
  • The reanimated split dog should not accept been able to bawl, equally a trachea bisected along its midline cannot propel air into the larynx.
• Creative License – Chemical science: The fictional "2,iv,5-Trioxin" which reanimates the dead (an instance of Chemistry Can Practice Annihilation) is actually a Shout-Out to a VERY real chemic, ii,four,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acrid. Called 2,4,5-T by the US military, this chemic is a powerful herbicide/defoliant, that is best known for being one of the two chemicals to make up Agent Orangish. Due to its toxicity, the chemical was banned in 1985 in both the US and Canada (the same year this film was released). The naming is where the similarity ends notwithstanding...the existent 2,four,5-T doesn't reanimate the dead, information technology simply makes things dead, with less severe cases causing nervous organisation damage and cancer.
• Creative License – Nuclear Physics: Heavy artillery ammo, nuclear or not, is never like a one-piece, circular-nosed, behemothic rifle cartridge, it comes in either two parts (the projectile itself plus one or more than propellant bags, depending on the range of the shot to be fired) or more before loading.
• Asshole Victim: Suicide, although with a dash of Wiggle with a Heart of Gilt.
• Attractive Zombie: The Ms. Fanservice punk chick Trash (played past Linnea Quigley) gets killed and zombified halfway in. Upon her resurrection, a homeless man winds upward Distracted by the Sexy when he sees the naked zombie Trash walk out of the graveyard... at least, until she'south close enough that the fog and darkness no longer obscure her Nightmare Face up.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Freddy thinks then, apparently. Sentinel him stop Frank from chirapsia on a reanimated split dog with a crutch. Afterwards, Ernie finds the act of Burt and the others burning the "rabid weasels" as well cruel and yells at them to take the "weasels" to the pound. He's quick to change his tune after finding that the then-called weasels is actually a dismantled cadaver that nearly breaks his leg.
• Bald of Evil: Tarman has no visible pilus before or after his disuse. His scalp is probably the least rotted function on his torso, which notwithstanding isn't saying much.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: While doing Trash's nude scenes, Linnea Quigley was wearing a prosthetic crotch cover, the result of meddling executives wishing to avoid an "X" Rating.
• Based on a Nifty Large Lie:
  • The movie starts off past saying everything in the pic actually happened and no names have been changed.
  • An in-universe example, as the military insisted that certain elements of "the original story" exist inverse.
• Batter Upward!: Burt decapitates the Tarman with a baseball bat.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished:
  • When Trash resurfaces every bit a naked zombie near the end of the moving-picture show, despite being surrounded by a group zombified erstwhile men...ane can't assistance but observe that there is no caput wound showing that they got her encephalon.
  • Downplayed with Tina, who falls down in the mud and gets soaked but otherwise makes information technology to the morgue all right.
• Berserk Board Battlement: Several of these are thrown upwards, though they don't do much good.

  Spider: How many fucking windows you got here?

• Berserk Push:
  • Tarman does not similar having his meals interrupted.
  • Suicide doesn't like being called chilling.
  • Burt is probably the funniest example. Make and so much every bit the slightest fault and he'll ear rape you with his mouth. And any you do Exercise NOT Become NEAR OR Open A TRIOXIN CANISTER. If you practice piss him off, expect to get deafened or be standing for an hr listening to him requite you an ear full.
  • Casey has i moment. She sarcastically tells Chuck to stroke himself if you lot get the message. Pretty hilarious because how unexpected it was. Don't flirt with her. Pretty unproblematic.
  • Spider has several. Don't turn into a Trioxin zombie and if you do get a Trioxin zombie, don't effort to swallow someone's brain and don't leave his friends behind. As well don't crash a car while he's in it.
  • The police fifty-fifty have i moment. DO NOT MOVE WHEN THEY TELL You lot TO FREEZE! If y'all do, expect your encephalon to be marinated on the pavement.
• Ameliorate to Die than Exist Killed: Frank immolates himself in the retort so he won't become a zombie.
• Blackness Comedy: Upward the wazoo. The cadaver scene is a textbook case.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Spider, the only black member of the crew, is among the last to die at the terminate of the film And then but considering information technology's a Downer Ending where everyone dies. Discussion of God says information technology'due south a Mythology Gag to Night of the Living Dead.
• Body Horror: Tarman is a slimy, gooey, decomposable mess that's barely holding together. One false move and it's a wrap.
• Bottomless Magazines: Averted. Ernie'southward Walther P38 holds 8 rounds in the magazine and 1 round in the bedchamber. He fires 3 shots at the zombie by the ambulance, and then 4 more at the horde trying to break through the forepart of the mortuary. After he's seen trying to reload it once all the windows have been boarded up.
• Burn the Undead: Burt resorts to this when Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain fails to exercise the chore. It doesn't stop well.
• Chekhov'south Gunman: A spectacularly night example: The full general that appears on the opening scene and who says has been tasked to look for the missing barrels of Trioxin doesn't announced again until the very last scenes, when he is contacted about the telephone call for assist of the heroes and orders the nuking of the whole area from the condolement of his own home .
• Cool Old Guy:
  • Burt kicks more ass than whatever of the seemingly tough punks.
  • Ernie has his moments besides.
  • Subverted hilariously with Frank, who seems this style at first with showing the young and naive Freddy the ropes of his new job and showing off the trioxin tanks to print and/or peradventure scare the boy. Once the corpses start reanimating, even so, this facade crumbles nigh instantly, showing a rather pathetic and somewhat neurotic individual.
• Creepy Cemetery: Side by side to the warehouse and morgue, where the punks hang out to wait for Freddy... and from where most of the zombies emerge.
• Cute Monster Girl: Zombie Trash. (Simply don't await also closely at her face.)
• Damsel in Distress: Tina narrowly avoids beingness eaten, twice. First past Tarman, and subsequently by Freddy. She'southward rescued by her friends at the last minute, both instances. Sadly though, the second occurrence even so ends in tragedy equally the boondocks gets nuked, killing her and all of the other survivors.
• Night Reprise: The vocal that Trash was dancing to during the graveyard party scene gets a spooky-echo remix when her zombified body hurts out of the ground that she was dragged into by the beginning wave of zombies.
• Expiry by Irony:
  • Earlier in the film, Trash says the worst fashion to die to exist eaten by a bunch of old men. The zombies that consume her are such.
  • Very early on on subsequently the Trioxin is unleashed (and the just zombies around are the cadaver on the medical warehouse's freezer and Tarman on the basement), Freddy says that they should call the emergency number on the barrels, only for Burt and Frank to shoot him down because they don't want to bring the Army (and government/police scrutiny that would ruin the warehouse's business organization) unto them. They were right about the Army, all right, but that is because their solution for dealing with Trioxin zombies is "kill everything in the general surface area and hope for minimal noncombatant collateral damage".
    • Fifty-fifty more ironic to the above is the fact that if they had called the number before trying to cook the yellow cadaver, the Army would have probably been able to contain information technology to 2 zombies (xanthous cadaver and Tarman) and two infected humans Frank and Freddy). Still, due to the fact that they didn't call the number sooner, the Ground forces nuked the surface area because of the fact that in that location were more than 20 zombies with the numbers increasing.
• Expiry by Pragmatism: The characters decide that they tin't handle the zombies past themselves, and so they call the military machine. Helpfully, the military nuke the town. But run into Deus ex Nukina.
• Decoy Protagonist: Frank and Freddy take most of the spotlight in the starting time but around midway, the film starts focusing on Burt, Ernie, Spider, and Tina, mainly considering Frank and Freddy are slowly turning into zombies.
• Deus ex Nukina: Instead of sterilizing the zombie outbreak, the nuclear smash only serves to distribute the Virus widely.
• Devoured by the Horde:
  • Ms. Fanservice Trash gets gnawed past a bunch of zombies and becomes a zombie herself, merely dissimilar all the other zombies she'southward still reasonably hot as a zombie. And still naked.
  • The paramedics and cops are immediately attacked by the large grouping of zombies as soon as they arrive at the barricade.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: As Freddy succumbs to the Trioxin virus corrupting him, Tina keeps him visitor and wraps him around her arms sobbing over his painful transformation before he turns and tries to eat her brains.
• Distress Call: Ii of the brain-hungry zombies use a imitation distress call to request more food: "Transport more paramedics", followed by "send more cops" a little later.
  • The (surviving) heroes find a contact telephone number stenciled on the Trioxin barrels and call information technology, hoping that the armed services can exercise something to salvage them from the zombies. The military machine did something almost the zombies, all correct.
• The Ditz: Freddy doesn't seem to accept all that much in the manner of brain cells.
• Downer Catastrophe: Twofold. First, the military machine nukes the area, killing any main characters left by the end of the pic; so, the nuke spreads the zombie gas further, before long earlier the president is scheduled to visit the surface area.
• Driven to Suicide: Frank commits self-immolation while he's notwithstanding in control of his own listen after Freddy becomes a zombie.
• Drib the Hammer: Spider uses a sledgehammer to try and fend off the zombies.
• Dwindling Party: The group of eight teens is slowly picked off throughout the film. Eventually, just Spider, Casey, and Chuck are left continuing with Burt just earlier the nuke kills them all. Tina hadn't been killed earlier the blast, but the fact that she was trapped with Ernie (who had a gun to her caput) and Freddy had just burst through to where they were hiding pretty much screwed her either way.
• Dying as Yourself: Towards the terminate of the film, Frank immolates himself in the antiphon, equally he has become a zombie and has no other means of ending his agony that would be certain to piece of work. A variation happens with Ernie and Tina in the movie's concluding few scenes, though naught ultimately comes of information technology for better or worse.
• The '80s: Well-nigh a cantankerous-department, likewise. You take punks, preppies, greasers, then on all in the aforementioned grouping of kids - consummate with '80s Pilus, of form, highlighted past Spider'due south jeri curls.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Tarman'south grand entrance.
• Eye Take: Tarman's eyelids melted off when his tank was breached, so he spends his screentime unendingly glaring at potential casualty. Brrr...!
• Fanservice: Trash appears naked for most of the first film... and continues to be naked subsequently she's zombified.
• Fate Worse than Decease: Inverted. The zombies are suffering an And I Must Scream because they're "dead".

  Ernie: Why do y'all eat people?

  Zombie: Non people. Brains.

  Ernie: Brains only?

  Zombie: Yes.

  Ernie: Why?

  Zombie: The Pain!

  Ernie: What most the pain?

  Zombie: The pain of beingness Expressionless!

  Ernie: It hurts... to exist dead?

  Zombie: I can feel my body rot!

  Ernie: Eating brains... How does that brand y'all feel?

  Zombie: It makes the hurting go abroad!

• Fiction As Coverup: Information technology turns out that the original Night Of The Living Dead was created to comprehend up an accidental spill of Trioxin back in the Sixties. Unfortunately for the people within this serial, one of the various things that the Government Conspiracy felt necessary to muffle was the fact that these zombies are a hell of a lot harder to kill than the Romero ones...

  Freddy: [watching a zombie survive a pickax to the caput] You mean the movie lied?!

• Foreshadowing:
  • As Burt and Ernie burn down the evidence of the Trioxin leaking, Frank sneers, "Some large favor. I can operate that goddamn thing." In one version, Freddy asks in reply, "Merely who'd want to?" Frank would, subsequently in the film, have himself out of the equation earlier he can eat whatever brains.
  • Besides at the beginning of the film when the Trioxin is released, Frank and Freddy wake up and observe that the trunk in the tank (who ultimately becomes Tarman) has vanished. They briefly question what happened to information technology before deducing that it melted. It certainly did, merely information technology'south far from gone.
  • Frank, Freddy, and Burt release the yellow blithe cadaver, y'all can clearly run into that it charges directly at Burt despite Frank and Freddy being practically right adjacent to information technology. Later on, it's revealed that Frank and Freddy, having been exposed to the Trioxin, were actually slowly dying before eventually zombifying. Non to mention, if y'all heed to its screaming real adept yous hear it say "BRAINS!"
  • Trash's description of her ideal decease is exactly how she winds upwardly dying (albeit with undead quondam men rather than just the standard blazon). Turns out she doesn't enjoy information technology as much as she thought she would.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Downplayed somewhat with Trash. She is accidentally left backside by the others and gets mauled by the dead, and is afterward consistently shown every bit a nude ghoul eating others' brains. However, aside from Casey and Chuck noting her absence upon barring up the warehouse, she is never talked near past the others once again, likely due to seeing Freddy in his sorry land of disuse. Towards the terminate when Spider reunites with Casey and Chuck, he responds "I don't know" when the former asks almost the others' fates. Given each of their fates, plus his own reaction to Freddy's zombification, he may only exist trying to spare them the Awful Truth.
• A Friend in Need: Later escaping the chemical pelting into the warehouse, the teenagers hear Tina screaming for assistance from the Tarman. They immediately rush to her aid which results in Suicide's death.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • With the punks, Suicide is this. According to him, the only times the others call him are to become a ride in his car, and otherwise, he'southward "too chilling" to be around. His venting-out monologue to Trash at the graveyard shows he's conspicuously not happy with this. Casey at one point refers to him as "your friend and mine", to which he politely tells her to fuck off.
  • Chuck is likewise implied to be this. Suicide and Casey regularly belittle him during their screentime together. Fifty-fifty his thespian, John Philbin, feels that his character, while an okay guy, is basically a poser in a group of hardass punks. It's highly possible that he only stays with them in social club to get closer to Casey.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Freddy. When he started out he was but a dumb, average morgue worker. When the Trioxin finally turns him, he becomes hell-bent on eating his girlfriend's brain.
• Furnace Body Disposal: Ernie disposes of the remains of a zombie via the retort at the morgue he works at. This backfires, since the fumes spread the Trioxin into the clouds, resulting in a type of pelting that causes more zombies to ascent. Frank uses the same furnace to kill himself subsequently realizing his infection is almost consummate.
• Genre Savvy: Good news: Some of the men are aware that Night of the Living Dead was based on true events. Bad news: The movie was loosely based on actual events, and the "real" zombies are completely different.
• George Lucas Altered Version:
  • The vox of the "Send more paramedics!" zombie has been altered and is no longer as funny as the original version. Likewise, the Tarman'southward voice has been changed. In the original, information technology was a chillingly distorted, somewhat loftier-pitched, often excited-sounding voice. For unknown reasons, it was inverse into a simple deep, flat voice. For some reason, however, the original Tarman vocalism is nowadays (along with the zombie that asks for more than cops) in the credits montage.
  • The original theatrical cut excluded the get-go scene with Colonel Glover after the opening act, merely information technology has since been restored to all home releases.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Human being: Spider starts babbling after Freddy succumbs to the trioxin and Ernie slaps him. It doesn't work when the half-corpse starts yelling for brains and Spider has to be restrained from attacking her. He only pulls himself together when the group hears Zombie!Freddy breaking out of the chapel.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Tina is the simply one of the teens, and the but principal graphic symbol period, to never utilize profanity. Closest she gets is an "Oh fudge!" earlier going off to find Freddy by herself.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: Tarman famously gets one of these when he kickoff steps out of the shadows, greeting Tina with "Braaaains!". He has another from Tina's POV in the closet when he's setting up the winch, and one more than when he catches Suicide.
• Heroic BSoD: Ernie, after encountering his first zombie. Spider, too, has a meltdown after seeing Freddy all zombified and tries to kill the half corpse when she starts screaming for brains, though Ernie'southward Armor-Piercing Slap quickly snaps him out of information technology.
• Horror Doesn't Settle for Elementary Tuesday: The first film begins on July 3rd, late afternoon. It's probably safe to assume that by the end, midnight eventually rolled around. So you get the Ultimate Fireworks Display.
• If You Can Read This: There is an center chart in the background in the start pic that reads, "Burt is a slave commuter and a inexpensive son of a bitch who's got you and me hither."
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: An interesting version happens when, later two of the master characters are exposed to Trioxin, they commencement feeling crappy and complain well-nigh the common cold. Nigh the climax, they experience better as zombies.
• Immune to Bullets: The zombies in this film are completely bulletproof.
• Incongruously Dressed Zombie: Several, including a brain-eating priest. Trash becomes an Incongruously-Nude Zombie after her cemetery striptease and decease.
• Injured Limb Episode: The concluding human activity of the movie has Ernie's right leg broken due to the accumulation of stress that started when the yellow cadaver'south arm grabbed it. He's forced to accept that he can't make information technology to the cars and has to remain with the traumatized Tina until Burt and Spider render with assistance (if they tin). They don't.
• Information technology'south the Merely Manner to Be Certain:
  • Nigh x blocks of Louisville are converted to radioactive slag.
  • Besides, as Burt and Ernie destroy the yellow cadaver:

    Burt: [Ernie,] you're absolutely certain that this is gonna get rid of everything and exercise the fob—I mean, cipher left?
    Ernie: Nothing but a little-fragmentary pile of ashes.
    Burt: Nosotros don't even want the ashes, Ernie!
    Ernie: Then I'll turn it up college, and nosotros'll burn upwardly the ashes, too. [slides the xanthous cadaver into the retort] Dust to dust.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gilt: Suicide, arguably, as although he is abrasive and somewhat self-absorbed he tells Trash to "bear witness respect to the dead" and is the first to rush into the basement in response to Tina's screams.
• Kill Information technology with Fire: This ends very, very badly.
• Large Ham: Suicide and Frank.
• Lost in Translation: The Italian dub translates the film's funniest line, "You hateful the movie lied!?", as "Continua a muoversi!" ^{English translation} "It'southward continuing to move!"
• Love Makes You Dumb: Tina insists on beingness locked in the chapel with Freddy despite knowing how dangerous it is.
• Made of Iron: Freddy's skull withstands several blows from a hunk of pipe, an 8-pound sledgehammer, and a jar of nitric acid, experiencing only minor skin abrasions.
• Mercy Impale: It'due south unsaid that Ernie is getting ready to do this to Tina when Freddy has them both cornered in the attic and is about to break in. He has his pistol pointed at her head, ready to impale her and spare her the hurting of Freddy eating her brains. Of course, the Deus ex Nukina arrives before he has to practise information technology.
• Ms. Fanservice: The '80s Scream Queen herself, Linnea Quigley.
• Nepotism: Freddy is implied to have gotten his new job at the medical-supply warehouse because Frank is his uncle.
• Nice Job Breaking Information technology, Hero: The whole zombie mess (and the subsequent nuking of the boondocks) all traces back to Frank and his ego trying to show off and/or scare Freddy with the trioxin corpses in the basement.
  • After nonetheless, Casey and Chuck spot Freddy heading to the mortuary with the chopped-up body, but Chuck blows it off and says it can't perchance be their friend. After all, why would Freddy be going there in the first place when it'due south non in his job description? Granted, that terminal part was mainly due to ignorance, but even so. They refrain from telling Tina or anyone else until the one-time decides to go to Uneeda where she has her encounter with Tarman and Suicide gets killed when the others go to her rescue. The workprint in the aftermath scene actually has Tina telephone call them out on it before Casey blames it entirely on Chuck, even when Casey herself didn't say anything.
• Nightmare Face: Tarman, enough said. And another thing, Zombified Trash is Not hot! ◊
  • The ones that Freddy makes after he fully zombifies aren't very pleasant either.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Quite literally in the outset movie. When Trash is describing the worst way she tin can think of to die (namely, existence eaten by a bunch of onetime men), she is clearly getting turned on, to the indicate that she tears off all her clothes and does a naked dance in the center of a cemetery.
• No Ending: The zombie apocalypse does not go resolved in the cease, the nuclear strike set off by the U.Southward. armed forces only restarts the pandemic spreading to even more cemeteries every bit now there are more dead rising out of the footing. All information technology did was extinguish the moving picture's heroes earlier they starve to death in that bunker.
• Noodle Incident:
  • "No, we can't, the cops said they'd shoot us if we went dorsum to the park."
  • "Allow's get some light over hither! Trash is taking off her wearing apparel again!"
• Not a Zombie: Averted. The outset grouping to run into a zombie knew virtually the chemical, and the showtime animated corpse they encountered was one they already knew to exist dead. The second group encounters a zombie so horrifically rotted, and screaming for brains, that there isn't much question.
• Not Distracted past the Sexy: Suicide. He's too self-absorbed into his Breaking the 4th Wall monologue about his cocky-image to detect a naked Trash doing a bump-and-grind against him. When he does observe, he shoves her away and says "Prove some fucking respect for the expressionless!" This is probably due to the fact she has a addiction of stripping in public (come across "Noodle Incident".)
• Not Using the "Z" Give-and-take:
  • Averted. At one point Spider says, "There'southward zombies all over the cars exterior." Earlier still, Freddy uses the give-and-take when discussing Night of the Living Dead with Frank.
  • When Burt finally gets through to the police, he but describes the threat as "stark-staring-mad" people in the cemetery who will kill and swallow anyone they catch because of something that'south "like rabies just faster". (He explains he's being applied, equally a zombie report would exist dismissed as a prank call.)
• Nuke 'em: It only spreads the Trioxin.
• Phlegmings: In the first picture show, when Freddy finally succumbs to the zombie hunger he starts foaming at the mouth like he's chewing on Alka-Seltzer.
• Pipe Pain: Burt uses a pipe every bit a weapon when the zombies try and break into the mortuary.
• Police force Are Useless: More or less inverted. It's not that the police are incompetent, it's just that they're heavily outnumbered and outmatched... and that they have absolutely no idea what they're even dealing with. Out of the first 2 cops sent to go afterwards the zombies, one of those cops turns and becomes one of them and he uses his compatible and a traffic businesswoman to lure in a mobilizing fleet of 10 other policemen into a trap.
• Poor Communication Kills: Literally, in this instance. Casey and Chuck witness Freddy, along with Frank and Burt, heading into the morgue during the party, but don't tell the others on Chuck's insistence that it tin't be their friend. This results in Tina heading off to the warehouse to notice her boyfriend where she gets attacked by the Tarman. While she ultimately survives, Suicide isn't so fortunate. The workprint actually has Casey albeit to it subsequently the fact, which Tina is understandably pissed about.
• Raising the Steaks: Several preserved specimens are animated, including one-half a dog and a number of preserved butterflies.
• Re-Release Soundtrack: The movie'southward theatrical and original VHS release featured "Dead Beat Dance" by The Damned in an early scene. Due to rights issues, however, the song has been removed from all subsequent home video releases and telly broadcasts beginning with the Hemdale Video release in 1991. The song "Young Fast Iranians" by The F.U.'south is usually substituted in its place.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Frank. It really stands out when compared to Freddy'southward shouts (and even more so to Burt).
• Screw This, I'chiliad Outta Here!!: When the zombies start breaking out their coffins and emerging from the ground the punk grouping bolts from the graveyard.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The corpses (and Trioxin) stored in the Army canisters.
• Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics: The army has no thought how to go rid of the zombies. They bomb the whole town. This proves to exist sick-advised because it creates another Trioxin chemic rain.
• Shout-Out: Trash in zombie form having her skin turning completely white and her hair going reddish could be a nod to Ronald McDonald.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Suicide cannot go a sentence without saying the F-give-and-take.
• Smug Ophidian: Non-Villainous instance with Frank (to an extent). His initial cocky Cool Sometime Guy facade flies to pieces once the corpses start reanimating. It fades away even further once Burt enters the scene with him screaming his head off during the whole cadaver sequence.
• Something We Forgot: In improver to Trash, nobody supposedly thought to continue their wits about Frank when he'southward on the verge of breaking after Freddy becomes a zombie. The workprint shows him bailing out during the anarchy when the residual are fighting off Freddy without them ever noticing. Not that they'd have to worry nigh him, for better and worse.
• Stealth Pun: The nukes go off on Independence Day. Not only is that one heck of a fireworks display, just it's independence for a whole agglomeration of dead people.
• Straying Baby: Tina wanders from the group to look for Freddy, unwittingly putting herself in danger to be killed past a zombie. Thankfully, she survives...for now.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Inverted. Remember how the zombie infestation in Night of the Living Dead (1968) worked the way it would've in real life, with the catastrophe that reveals that the infestation was stopped equally easily as information technology had started? Well, in this picture, information technology doesn't piece of work that way.

  You mean the motion picture lied!?

• Take a Third Option: Once the Trioxin is released by Frank, the zombie apocalypse begins and corpses are alive again. Frank and Freddie hurry over to the function and discuss what should they do. Freddie suggests the cops, Frank shoots that downwards cause then the cops would hold the company liable for the disaster, and litigations will pour in. Freddie so suggests the number stated on the barrels in example information technology happens, but Frank points out that's the Army. So Frank decides to telephone call in their boss Bert. Bert however decides the cops need to get involved, but the zombies already ate them, so he desperately calls the war machine - not knowing that they don't pursue a search-and-rescue effort like the cops do merely rather take nukes pointed at the town in case a Trioxin outbreak occurs.
• Take This Task and Shove It: Freddy certainly has this mental attitude afterwards things get intense.

  Frank: Watch it boy, if y'all similar this job!
  Freddy: (incredulous) LIKE THIS JOB?!

• Tempting Fate:

  Freddy: These things don't leak, practice they?

  Frank: Leak? Hell, no! This was built by the Ground forces Corps of Engineers!

  (slaps tank, which instantly leaks)

  • Trash's fantasy of being eaten by old men wouldn't accept been expressed by someone more Genre Savvy.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Ernie is strongly implied to be one. He listens to a German march on his headphones, uses a pearl-handled Walther P38 handgun, and has an Eva Braun pinup on the wall in ane scene.
  • His full name even is Ernie Kaltenbrunner.
  • On the DVD commentary track, Don Calfa claims that he didn't personally see Ernie as a Nazi, but rather someone just "actually proud of his heritage".
• Token Minority: Subverted with Spider as he is the simply not-caucasian in the group of punks, and still he has a prominent role throughout the movie, becoming a 2d pb of sorts to Burt. He manages to survive until the very finish of the pic when the whole town is nuked, effectively killing all the survivors.
• Transhuman Treachery:
  • Freddy has an epiphany

    Freddy: [to Tina] Meet? And now you made me hurt myself over again! You made me suspension my manus completely off this time, Tina! Just I don't care, Darlin', because I love y'all, and you've got to let me EAT YOUR BRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINS!

  • The workprint footage makes this even creepier every bit he plays on Tina's love for him.

    Freddy: [to Tina] Tina...Tina, heed to me. Nosotros e'er meant so much to each other. So please open the hatch, information technology'south wrong that yous should keep me locked up like this!

• Too Impaired to Live:
  • Frank sealed his ain fate (too equally Freddy'southward) when he outburst the tank holding Tarman open. His reason for showing them off just to scare/impress the kid becomes this once y'all hear Burt yell at him for even acknowledging the tanks' existence let lonely going to run into them even afterward the army specifically told him not to. This ultimately spiraled into the town beingness nuked and killing any possible survivors along with the zombies (which are heavily implied to have spread out anyway). Thanks a lot, Frank.
  • Barely subverted, with Tina. Had she but left the warehouse after seeing that no one was present or answering her calls, she would've never encountered Tarman. She did get an respond simply not the 1 she was hoping for. The second fourth dimension, she purposely locks herself in the chapel with Freddy as he was turning into a zombie. Had information technology not been for Ernie, Burt, and Spider coming in the nick of fourth dimension she would've been killed.
• Understatement: After driving through a throng of brain-hungry zombies: "I call up that something is non right outside!
• Unexplained Recovery: The graveyard gate despite existence cleaved past the punk group and is later shown to exist wide open up when a zombified Trash exits and attacks a presumed homeless man, is shown to be airtight up forcing Burt to run through it with the constabulary machine.
• Up to Eleven: "Then I'll plough [the estrus] up higher, and we'll burn upwardly the ashes, likewise."
• Vertigo Effect: When Tina commencement sees the Tarman.
• We Could Have Avoided All This: Had Burt chosen the Army earlier, it might not have been necessary to Nuke 'em.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In one case Tarman escapes the tank, he remains subconscious until near xl-four minutes into the movie when he comes afterwards Tina. Even afterwards Chuck and Casey are forced to go back to Uneeda, he still isn't seen or heard. Given his state of decay, however, it was probably in his best interest to wait it out until more prey came to him; he still had Suicide to keep him blimp plus Casey and Chuck were as well sensible enough to not even think well-nigh unblocking the door after what happened earlier. As well, we never encounter what Ernie did with the corpse he was working on when Burt and company beginning showed upwards at the mortuary. Encounter Adaptation Expansion above for more than info.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Burt gives Frank an earful for breaking the trioxin tanks open, even when he specifically told him not to even go near them. Subsequently in the aftermath of Suicide'south death (in the workprint but), Tina chews out Casey for her and Chuck non saying they saw Freddy enter the cemetery morgue, which they could've gone to, and avoided Tarman altogether.
• Incorrect Genre Savvy: Because Nighttime of the Living Dead (1968) was based on truthful events In-Universe, Frank and Freddy initially believe that Removing the Head or Destroying the Encephalon will exist good plenty to destroy a zombie and panic when it doesn't work.

  Burt: I thought you said that if nosotros destroyed the encephalon, it'd die!
  Frank: It worked in the flick!
  Burt: Well, it own't working at present, Frank!
  Freddy: Yous mean the film lied!?

• You lot Can't Kill What's Already Dead: Played for laughs when Burt and Frank think that destroying the head volition take care of the zombie they accidentally resurrected since that'southward the way information technology worked in Night of the Living Dead. This merely results in a headless zombie chasing later on them.

  Freddy: Yous mean the movie lied?

• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Casey has blue highlights in her fauxhawk. At that place's also Scuz's green mohawk and Trash'due south iconic red do.
• Zerg Rush: How the zombies kill.

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