Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

2005 "Dance til' you drop...dead."
3.3| 1h35m| R| en
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A college student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' on campus which resurrects the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
TheLittleSongbird As bad as Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, and it was (very), Rave to the Grave is even worse, few if any horror film series have ended on such a thud as much as the Return of the Living Dead did with this.Necropolis at least had some pretty good zombie make-up and one cool song saving it from total doom. Rave to the Grave has neither, making all of Necropolis' flaws and amplifying them to worse degrees as well as making more on the way. Like Necropolis, this movie is incredibly poorly made, camera work is haphazard and unfocused, editing is sloppy by making scenes interminably dull and sometimes incomplete-feeling, there is a complete lack of atmosphere and the special effects and pathetic zombie make-up looked like very last minute jobs. The music is once again overbearing and takes one out of the movie completely.Rave to the Grave's direction is incompetent, to call it anything like flat or sloppy would be insulting to those words and tension, fun (it even manages to be far too tiresome to have any kind of novelty value) and suspense is non-existent. The script is filled to the brim with stilted lines and misplaced and grating humour and what anything remotely resembling a story is thin, dull, dumb and sometimes incoherent with zero scares and even less tension. Once again the zombies, as well as looking bad this time around, are very underused and are both goofy and lifeless, you never feel the menace at all.The characters are paper thin and irritating and the acting is some of the laziest and most obnoxious of any movie I've seen recently. Overall, Necropolis may be and still is a disgrace but this final entry is even more so and by far the worst of the series. 1/10 Bethany Cox
GL84 Following his grandfather's death, a teen's discovery of hidden canisters containing a secret chemical causes a horde of flesh-eating zombies at their school's Halloween rave and forces them to stop the bloodthirsty creatures.There's a lot to like with this one as its quite fun. Among its better elements is the fact of this one going with a pronounced sense of fun here with detailing the way the events plays play out in here. From the start with the discovery of the canisters and how it leads to the revelation into the true contents inside, this brings about what could've been fun in the synthesized drugs leading to the zombie outbreak on the school campus. There's some good times to be had from the group going after the zombies in the dorms or out on the football field as the earlier scenes featuring the drugs being distributed which allow those fun action scenes to get paid off quite nicely. These here manage to set-up the craziest part of the film in its' finale as this gets way from the school encounters into the titular rave which really offers up a lot to like with the crowd dancing away in costumes providing a perfect backdrop to hide the victims getting ripped apart, the frantic panicking of the crowd provides a ton of great action and there's tons of exciting action here in this one doling out the big attack where swarm is quipped out by an attack helicopter that's really spectacular. As well, there's some genuinely creepy scenes involving their attempted escape from a horde of zombies in a black-lit room illuminated only by the gunshots in the room that's balanced out by the comedy of the bumbling agents for a rather complete scene here. Add in fantastic zombie make-up for the creatures and rather impressive kills and gore that all gives this one a lot of good points against the few small flaws here. The main one here is the rather convoluted way this one goes about getting the virus and drugs across the campus. The way it works before in getting the capsule and the ever-increasing swarm of zombies into the film's action was rather fun, yet once that's been curtailed the clunky way it switches over to the party is a little off- beat to feel shoehorned into the film like this, especially with it being the film's main point here. While some of the humor is hit-or- miss, especially with the sudden appearance and running joke of the series' main zombie villain appearing, on the whole these are the main issues holding it down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, pervasive drug use, and Nudity.
grafvonbecker The movie starts bad, then it get worse until the end. First, the canisters are a cheap version of the originals seen in the ROTLD 2. Second, the acting is just awful, specially from the gangsters. Third, (AND HERE I'M GOING TO ROLL SOME SPOILERS SO YOU'RE ADVISED): what the hell was that weird shaking in Jeremy? Are you serious? Four: zombies doesn't scare, they are silly looking, misinterpreted.Also, why the gangsters aren't using some hazard protection if they know what are they dealing with? It's not some freon, it's TRIOXIN! Wear some gloves at least for the love of god!And last: the guitar scene (about 32 minutes) is even worst than the infamous Troll scene (yeah, the Internet meme). END OF SPOILERS.I warn you: don't see this crap! If you're a cult movie lover, consider this garbage as a non-canonical attempt.
Retrovenger This is a truly hateful movie, towards fans of the series and zombie fans in general. The ROTLD movies have often pride themselves on being the "true" story of Romero's NightOTLD and have been usually fun to watch for the humor and effects. This one has neither, nor anything that truly ties it together with the past sequels. The only thing this movie is full of is stupidity; pure, undiluted stupidity.Having found one of the familiar 'zombie' tanks, that just happen to be lying around, a group of college students take it to their campus labs in hopes of understanding what it is...so they use it in making a drug called "Z"(...Ha...ha...). What follows is menagerie of plot holes and thoughtless actions, which are the only way the plot, which is deader than any of the 'zombies' in the film, is able to move along.As for the reason I mention 'zombies' is because unlike the previous movies, these 'zombies' CAN die from head-shots, or even getting their ears punctured. They smell when they turn, pretty much instantly, even though they aren't really rotting or can sweat. We also have 'zombie' rats that can't tell a real brain from plastic one on an anatomy figure. Then we have a line of up people just meant to be eaten; not batting an eye the panicking people, hear or see the 'zombies' coming, or able to even fight back, to help spread the plague.As for the 'zombie' drug, it has a random release time depending on weight, age, and other factors of the buyer, which we learn about a quarter into the third act. So even though the drug has been in circulation for maybe week, and consumed countless times by annoying DJ and the dealer, we don't get any 'zombies' until near the end of the second act. Which also gives us time for a bunch of time with the truly despicable characters of the film.There is not even a single thing laughable in this movie. It tries to be funny, thinking that oblivious characters or ironic T-shirts are humorous, but ultimately falls short of the punchline with both ankles snapped off. It does manage a statically impossibility ability to not make you laugh at the sheer stupidity of anything.If you are a fan of zombie movies, never watch this one. It's not even 'so bad it's good', more like 'so bad you will be buying a new TV because you'll have put your fist through the screen'. If you find a copy, I implore you to burn it to ashes, never spend a dime on it, rented or otherwise.