Revealing mistake: When Ernie catches the zombie eating the paramedic, the paramedic is obviously a rubber doll as indicated by its jiggling fingers.
William Bergquist
26th Nov 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
26th Nov 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Continuity mistake: When they pull the half female zombie through the window, they lay a large piece of cardboard over it. An instant later, the cardboard is off to the side.
4th Aug 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Trivia: The "zombie" butterflies flailing about on the board after the gas is leaked are really cut out pictures from a butterfly book. The production designer was waving a piece of cardboard off camera to get them to move as if they were alive. DVD Commentary.
25th Jun 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Continuity mistake: Earnie splashes the jar of acid on Freddy's face but in a later close up shot, just Freddy's eyes are burned.
25th Jun 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Visible crew/equipment: Trash is wearing a slightly visible prosthetic cover over her lower private parts during her strip tease scene - DVD Commentary.
25th Jun 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Revealing mistake: When Trash slowly rises in the rain storm because she is now a zombie, she is noticeably wearing flesh colored shorts.
13th May 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Tina runs up the stairs and then falls through, she lands on a blanket but when she stands up, the blanket is gone.
3rd May 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning when Frank is giving Freddy the warehouse tour, Frank mentions and points out wheelchairs that are off camera which is fine but when the headless corpse is trashing the warehouse, the wheelchairs are nowhere to be seen.
3rd May 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Continuity mistake: Trash's fantasy about being eaten alive comes true when several zombies attack her, taking bites out of her before she drowns in the Trioxin-water mix. When she reanimates, she's now got no bite marks on her.
2nd May 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Trivia: In the opening when the punkers are walking along the sidewalk, the bum curled up on the sidewalk is the production designer - DVD Commentary.
22nd Mar 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Revealing mistake: At the end, when the Colonel is at his control panel on the phone just after the nuke goes off, the cord from the phone begins to peel from the control panel. This is mentioned in the DVD commentary.
22nd Mar 2004
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning when Frank is giving Freddy the office tour, you can see camera shadows on the shelves as the camera goes across the aisles following the two men - just after they pack the female skeleton.
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