Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis

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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, the fourth film in the series, was filmed in Romania and Ukraine. The film stars Peter Coyote and Aimee Lynn Chadwick. The plot revolves around a group of teenagers attempting to rescue their friend from an evil … see full wiki

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Cast: Peter Coyote, Cory C. Hardrict, Jana Kramer, Aimee Lynn Chadwick, John Keefe, Harold R. Greene, see all

Director: Ellory Elkayem

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy

Release Date: October 15, 2005

MPAA Rating: R

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It makes my skin crawl knowing there's worse!

Oct 26, 2012

by Madpenguin
posted in Movie Hype

Rating:

-3

After a brief transaction goes berserk. Charles Garrison(Peter Coyote), a scientist for a high tech company named Hybra-Tech acquires the last canisters of Trioxyn-5. This is a deadly chemical that not only kills people, but also re-animates them, plus the already dead into zombies; turning them into blood thirsty creatures craving human brains.

When a motorcycle accident leaves high school student Zeke(Elvin Dundel) unconscious. He's taken away in an ambulance and supposedly brought to a hospital. Later, he's being seen on a stretcher heading into the Hybra-Tech company building. His high school friends, who are led by Julian(John Keefe) attempt to rescue him.-summary

Sequels... Without them life itself would be impossible. Folks like myself would quickly run out of things to use for verbal target practice, when hurling those virtual rocks at these abominations trying to pass for entertainment. Also, there would be a shortage on coasters. Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis directed by Ellory Elkayen, is the fourth installment in the Return Of The Living Dead(ROTLD) franchise, and suprisingly, it's not as close to the bottom of the barrel, like some folks would have you believe. Still, it's definitely a rotten movie.

Outside of cerebral cannibalism, this sequel has nothing to do with the previous entries which is not a bad thing. Therefore, one can come into this without seeing any of the earlier movies. However, the writers do play on a big zombie attack once occurring. Since a past outbreak has been made public, with the Hybra company once dealing with it.

After the 1985 original, I have been very disappointed in this franchise, with part 2 still being the worst. I hate that movie so much I'm never going to review it. When taking that under consideration, I set my expectations very low coming into this one, so I wasn't too shocked with its sheer stupidity. Once the movie hit the half way point. The plot became worse every five minutes with several plot holes here and there.

ROTLD 4 is not a horror movie at all. It's an action movie with zombies in it. Kind of similar to Flight of the Living Dead. However, unlike FOTLD, which was mindless fun that never really became stupid. This movie seems to revel in its stupidity.

This is not a movie to be taken serious, but I still found it hard to sit through as time went on. To the movies credit, I will admit the plot in the first half was given some thought. Most of the events that took place seemed pretty realistic, and the characters actually had a logical purpose to storm the company. It wasn't the typical brainless teens who were searching for a place to get high and get laid. However, on one occasion, this movie felt too much like a dark version of Scooby-Doo.

The action started out with a spark, and delivered good amounts of zombie chomp sessions, plus heads being blasted. The gore has a few decent moments. One of the major things my zombie films must have, are plenty of scenes involving zombies and humans, with both sides locked in violent battle killing each other viciously. ROTLD 4 gave me that for awhile, and I was mildly satisfied. Things also became slightly interesting when the humans ran out of ammo, and began brawling with the living dead, as if this was a twisted version of Streets of Rage or something.

As time began to pass, the movie became so ridiculous and nonsensical to the point where my enjoyment suffered. One must witness the idiocy for themselves, therefore, I will avoid major spoilers. One particular event right before the end ruined the movie completely for me. This is when it joined my personal list, of films, tv shows, and ppvs, that I would never watch again, no matter what mind-altering influence I could possibly be under.

Since ROTLD 4 is a mindless action movie; it's best to forget all about atmosphere, tension, suspense, and scares. Instead, prepare yourself for pathetic acting, insipid dialogue, plot holes, and cheesy characters. This is a movie that's best to be skipped. I recommend it only to hardcore zombie fans, and also to those who love to watch bad movies.

Pros:
-Zombies and humans killing each other

Cons:
-A plot that only moves in one direction. Take a guess where

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FM_ALEX October 26, 2012

A dark version of Scoob, man I love that shit.

Madpenguin October 26, 2012

Oh man, that one part when they were piecing things together, I was just waiting for someone to say "jinkies", or whatever the hell that four-eyed girl use to say.

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