Review: Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993)

Stars: Mindy Clark, Sarah Douglas

Directed By: Brian Yuzna

Budget: $2million

Ok we are plowing ahead with the RotLD series here. This offering is part 3 also directed by Brian Yuzna a full 5 years after the last.
And it's a doozy, this film made me fall in love with Mindy Clark and realize the lengths you would go to for someone you love.

Curt is a young guy in love, who wouldn't be with the beautiful Miss Clark right?
Unfortunately he also the son of a high ranking army official, his dad does not approve of his relationship with Julie he see's her as a bad influence and just overall risk to his son.

Thinking it cool Julie makes Curt steal his dads pass key and they go to the secret army base where he works. These are obviously just some metal containers joined together in a warehouse. with such a little budget I think these effects are well done.
So they crawl through the air ducts and see Sarah Douglas's character.
That's right her from superman 2, (Ursa) she is doing experiments with the Trioxin gas. This time they are not accidentally losing one or have already lost them. They get discovered and escape the facility only for Curt to has a bike accident flinging Julie into a post and killing her.

Heartbroken Curt takes her corpse to the facility once again and uses the Trioxin to bring her back to life, It works bringing a confused Julie back to life. The gas works a little differently in this one bringing most bodily functions back too ( such as heartbeat etc). It would seem time dead now effects how 'brain dead' the corpse returns as.
They escape again but Sarah's character Col Sinclair see's that Col Reynold's son broke in and brought Julie back to life. Sinclair is also looking into ways to control the undead as weapons, you know typical army stuff.

Julie over the course of the film starts to degenerate and infect others people as she does to. While hiding later on Julie and Curt make friends with a friendly homeless guy in the sewers called Riverman. Julie goes banana's and starts pushing glass and other sharp objects through and into her skin/flesh. Riverman along with a gang also after Curt and Julie get infected too around here.

The army finally catches up to Julie and Curt and capture her, him and the infected Riverman. They turn Riverman into some weird exo-skeleton controlled thing and just before they start experimenting on Julie Curt makes a last ditch attempt to rescue the love of his life.

Thats where i'll leave this because as maybe the 3rd best movie, though because i love the power of love aspect in this film (usually that shit makes me laugh) it's almost joint 2nd or outright 2nd favorite, the only reason it doesn't is this one departs the comedy aspect of the last two and that i appreciated in these films.

So THN gives this film a strong 4 out of 5 stars, next up we have the abysmal 4+5 of the series!