Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis

Plot synopsis:
Set 10 years after the events of Return of the Living Dead 3, the film starts out with Charles Garrison (Peter Coyote) traveling to Chernobyl to collect the last 6 canisters of Trioxin 5. Two Russian sellers take him to an empty power station which contains the Trioxin. One of the Russians get Trioxin on his hands, turning him into a zombie. Upon hearing screams, Garrison runs to see the zombie eating the other Russian partner. Garrison promptly shoots the zombie in the head.
It is then revealed Julian and Jake (also known as Pyro) Garrison, the nephews of Charles, parents were volunteers who died a year earlier at Hybra Tech. Julian leaves the house to go motor biking with his friends. During a stunt, one of Julian’s friends, Zeke falls and gets knocked unconscious. At the hospital, a doctor tells Julian that Zeke had an unexplained reaction to the painkillers and is pronounced dead on arrival.
One of Julian’s friends, Katie, works at Hybra Tech and notices Zeke being brought in. Julian and his friends manage to hack their way into Hybra Tech website and discover Zeke is to be used as a test subject and decide to rescue him.
Meanwhile, Charles is experimenting with the Trioxin. He manages to reanimate an arm and a corpse. However, some of the gas manages to escape through the pipes (unexplainably not affecting Charles) and reanimates a dead rat that two homeless men were eating and it proceeds to attack them.
By using fake IDs, they manage to get into Hybra Tech, with Katie at the security center giving them advice over walkie-talkies. They end up sneaking through the ventilation shaft and find out that Pyro had followed them. They get out of the vent and find themselves in an armory. After some searching they are found by Charles, who shows them where Zeke is.
The group discovers a room full of zombie clones. Uncle Charles explains that they are to be the new test subjects. He also reveals that Julian’s parents are alive before managing to escape. Katie tries to deactivate the alarm but in the process releases all the zombies in the complex. During the chaos, Zeke is bitten on the neck by a zombie, and the group manages to make it to the armory and escape into the vents. Julian, Carlos and Cody separate from the group to find Julian’s parents.
Zeke, Becky and Pyro manage to make it to the parking lot and are able to find keys to a jeep. Unfortunately, Zeke turns into a zombie and tries to eat them, causing them to crash. Julian meanwhile has found the building where his parents are being held. He finds his zombie parents in a holding tank and sees they have been suited up with circular saws and mini-guns to become "uber-soldiers." They leave the room in disgust and after being chased by zombies run to the roof. A few minutes later Uncle Charles appears in the room with Julian’s parents and releases them from their tanks.
Julian manages to rappel down the building from the roof, where at the bottom, he encounters two zombies. The zombies are killed as Katie appears in a new truck and runs the zombies over. Julian and Cody then get in the truck.
Meanwhile, Pyro and Becky are trying to fend off zombies. Zeke runs towards Becky but she is pushed out of the way by Pyro. Zeke then eats Pyro’s brains. Becky manages to scare Zeke off just before Katie arrives in the truck. They pick up Becky and escape the zombies. As they drive, Julian’s dad appears and shoots the truck with the mini-gun. After he has finished shooting, Becky gets out of the truck and throws a grenade at him, nearly destroying him.
They all get out of the truck and start running, but encounter Zeke and Julian’s mother. Zeke starts a fist fight with Julian, whilst the group attempt to destroy Julian’s mother. They succeed while Julian manages to destroy Zeke.
The SWAT team arrives and shoots the remaining zombies, including Julian’s dad and mistakenly shoot Katie. The movie ends with the SWAT team disposing of the bodies, and Uncle Charles escaping with the barrels of Trioxin. The closing scene of the movie shows a newscaster reporting about a supposed zombie outbreak which Hybra Tech denies. In the end the newscaster is attacked by a zombie as the screen goes black.

Tags: violence

Review:
I thought "House of the Dead" tried too hard but was mildly entertaining and found good points to "Cry_Wolf"...that should pretty much put my movie viewing into perspective.With this film, there just isn't anything to speak highly about.
As a matter of fact, the only positive thing I can say about this film is that it is slightly more bearable than part 5 and I guess that's worth something.I thought it was hysterical when they put a preview for 'Land of the Dead' with this movie...it's like they couldn't make it look bad enough on it's own, they had to give us something for comparison!.
But THIS particular movie, this just wasn't funny, scary, or entertaining at all.ROTLD4 plays like one of the movies i've seen actual high-schoolers tape without knowing or caring how to edit.The makeup, granted passed as acceptable, but the super-soldiers were like a cross between a nemesis (from Resident Evil) and what happens to a squirrel while you clean it, (it gets turned inside out for all of you city-dwellers.) If i start to talk about the ridiculous and unbelievable plot, its very possible i could rant for far longer than i'm willing to devote to this movie.
Whats more interesting is, he DOESN'T EVEN EXPLAIN how he's supposed to dominate the world with zombies.The main character was a total wuss, and one of the supporting characters was featured using numbchuks, rappelling from a skyscraper, fighting karate style, shooting high-powered smgs with perfect aim, and hacking computers.Please, waste your time on this movie.
If you're a fan of the first Return of the Living Dead movie, please don't watch this one.
The Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis won't even qualify as a "good bad cult movie" 20 years from now.
Unlike Romero's walking corpses, the Return of the Living Dead zombies are not supposed to die when you shoot them in the head!
They break in the facility trying to find their friend and accidentally release a group of zombies starving for brains."Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis" is incredibly awful.
Very poor and dry acting sets the pace as a group of Teenagers bent on dirt-biking, find themselves trying to save a friend from a chemical company which is harvesting our favorite zombie-making chemical.Friends ZEKE(Elvin Dandel), JULIAN(John Keefe), BECKY(Amie Chadwick), CODY(Corey Hardick), CARLOES(Toma Dinala), JULIANS kid-brother JAKE(Alexandru Geoana), ZEKES exigirlfriend KATIE(Jana Kramer), MIMI(DIANA MUNTEANU) and DARREN(Razvan Oprea) are all dirt-biking lovers.
It got to expecting.Despite all the crap this new line of sequels adds to the mix, it IS a rather entertaining zombie film...
All in the name of rescuing one of the teen's parents and inadvertently (surprise) release the next zombie apocalypse.'Necropolis' comes no where near to the first and third parts of the series (my personal favorites) and even falls short of the second's intentionally campy tone with its uber-bad acting all over the place.
Ho Ho Ho. Incredibly bad film wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but the screenwriters seemed to think us horror fans wanted to wait an hour before any of the zombies finally showed up.
The characters are among the dumbest I've seen in any horror film, the performances are some of the worst I've ever seen and we've even got one actress who's a Paris Hilton wannabe who actually makes the real Hilton look like Hepburn.
The first return of the living dead is an excellent black comedy, the second is a forgivable slapstick, but this makes all previous films look like Shakespeare.
Not the worst zombie movie ever made, but a disgrace to the Return of the Living Dead series.
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis as far as zombie movies go is not as bad as House of the Dead, Vampegeddon, Zombie Night, Vampires vs.
Zombies and Zombie Nation, and I do remember Rave to the Grave being slightly worse, but it is a disgrace to the Return of the Living Dead series (the previous three movies vary in quality, but never to the same level of badness of Necropolis and Rave to the Grave).There is hardly anything good to say about it, other than that the zombie make-up was pretty good and the use of Alice Cooper's Cold Machines was cool and used appropriately.
The scary moments are all predictable and come off cheesily, and Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis does a poor job with the zombies, they should be the stars and heart of their movie but are severely under-utilised and when they do appear they are very goofy, lifeless and not menacing at all.Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis' characters are as thin as paper and so incredibly dumb they come off irritating, while the acting is a bad mixture of over-acting and going-through-the-motions, I found myself most annoyed by Peter Coyote.
To conclude, there are worse zombie movies around but Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis is a disgrace to the series.
After a motorcycle accident, a mysterious abduction leads a group of friends to break into a secure chemical complex that's experimenting with bringing the dead back to life and accidentally free them upon the facility forcing them to escape it's zombie-filled halls to get out.This was quite the fun and enjoyable effort that has a lot to like about it.
I love the Return of the Living Dead movies and this one was not a good add on to the others..
There's some gun-crazed splatter zombie action in the second half, and Necropolis makes concessions to the legacy of its franchise by having zombies (not Tarman though) bellow "BRRrrainsss!", a zombie picks up a phone to say "Send more security guards" in obvious homage and the familiar gooey green ooze leaking from barrels is the source of bodily evil, but in tone and feel, this is far from the Return of the Living Dead films we loved.
I live in Romania.The movie was shot in the Romanian-American University Campus.I know that because I'm a student there.It bothers me because the whole set there doesn't resemble a research laboratory from an evil corporation wanting to take over the world.The costumes tend to take my mind away from the fact that I know the setting.I just saw Return of the living dead 1 and it was a average-good movie for the time when it was made.ROTLD 4 on the other hand is a very weak movie for year 2005.I'd expect much more from this movie but, come on...the whole "Zombie from Beyond" idea is a little too much nowadays.Too bad that the movies made after "Resident Evil" Capcom games were so bad.In comparison this one was a little better..
It seemed like it was never going to come out, and then it was on the sci fi channel (which I should have known was not a good thing, based on all their other original movies).
I had to give this 3/10 unfortunately, i love zombie and gore flicks and thought great ill watch this on Sci-fi so got it shipped on VHS and i was disappointed the movie was gory, but i do have a feeling all this was cut, firstly the swearing was cut out yet the gore or most of the gore stayed, secondly why blur the nude scenes also i would of expected these to be shown if the gore stayed put, anyone wanting to see this wait for the uncut DVD release i certainly would i'm not going to recommend anyone to watch the sci-fi channel version unless they are under 13 years old, disappointing very very disappointing i would of had more fun watching the zombie chronicles rather than this cut as it was..
The only ways to kill a zombie is to destroy the brain or sever the head but all they do in this film is shoot them in the chest and abdomen.
I'd like to offer a defense of the film (after first attacking it).The idea of a company that wants to use zombies as a biological weapon is a good one and fits in with the entire series and their Army plot.
28 Days later.Dawn of the Dead.Land Of the Dead.Resident Evil.Shaun of the Dead.When there is a glut of successful Zombie flicks that hit the market its only a matter of time before the long-dead Series make their return.Sorry for the Puns.Actor William Butler had since plotted the Rebirth of one of Horror's beloved series since 2002.I think he had good intentions.But Necroplis is worse than ROTLD 2 for crying out loud!
The plot is a simple recycling of of the first 3.Kids get containers open.Kids On the run from zombies.This would not be that bad if the dialog was not so cornball,the acting full of Ham,and the throwaway of the series rules.Bullets to the head?Bad misstep right there.What did they have on Peter Coyote for him to appear in this?
I hate the fact that we had to waste one full hour before seeing the zombie out break.Despite this all of this it is still a good movie, A worthy addition to the fading genre..
The sets are about as noteworthy as the rest of the film, and on the whole; even if you're a die hard Return of the Living Dead fan, this film should be avoided like you'd avoid an actual zombie outbreak.
Horrible dialogue, worse acting, and the assumption that the viewers themselves are as brain-dead as the zombies in the film.
I'm sure some will say, "But it's just a zombie horror movie, you knew what it would be going in." Sure, that's true, but that just goes to show how this movie takes awful to a whole new level.You can tell that this is squarely aimed at a teenage, young adult audience (you can tell from all the "Extreme" content and the "metalcore" soundtrack), but knowing that just makes me ask this: Are the youthful really so dumb as to be entertained by this?
The main difference between this and the others in the series is a point i didn't like at all - that the zombies in this one could be killed by being shot - they were basically unstoppable in all the other films, and that changed in this one, that and the two parents of that kid, they looked way too much like the borg, so that was stupid too.
In this movie it happens like every five minutes.However there is a good way to watch it, which I discovered after nearly falling asleep.
Every time somebody kills an undead they put some slow motion on screen, that's the worst point in this movie, the acting is poor, and the story try to keep the same from the original Return of The Living dead, but then everything goes to hell.
Is really sad, because Brian Yuzna creates a great movie in ROTLD3, and these people is making a massacre of the great zombies movies.The Zombies have good makeups, but the shooting and splatter is not too good, it's don't look too real.This movie don't deserves the name Return Of The Living Dead, it have to be called just necropolis....
Title: Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis Director: Ellory ElkayemCast: A bunch of really bad teenage actors and Peter Coyote Review:20 years after Dan O Bannons first ROTLD came out it has already spawned 4 sequels.
Then, the group of kids decide to go into the complex to save their friend who they think is still alive inside of the complex.Well the latest batch of crap zombie films has arrived in the form of Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis.
But this is a TV movie we are talking about here and it was more then likely a rush job to capitalize on the current zombie craze, so a level of originality was not entirely expected.
This zombie flick is more interested in having people shooting machine guns and shotguns at the zombies then making a scary movie about dead people wanting to eat your brains.
Cause films like Resident Evil for example present us with interesting action sequences, but in the case of Necropolis the action sequences resort to boring shoot outs with nothing new or interesting to entertain with.The one opportunity the movie has of showing us something cool is when these two uber zombies show up.
Not to mention the fact that these super zombies look like Cenobite rejects from the Hellraiser films.Anyhows, all in all if your in the mood for some bad acting, bad dialog and boring action sequences, with some gore and zombies squeezed in the last 30 minutes then by all means rent this.
After recent zombie offerings like this and All Souls Day: Dia De Los Muertos, Return 2 is actually starting to look good by comparison.Here are ten things you should know before viewing...1.
The part where the guy drops his gun and says "It's game time!" before kung fu-ing a zombie reminded me of everyone's favorite movie, House of the Dead.
The make-up was pretty good, I especially liked the head-crushed-by-tank-wheel effect, but the rest was formula zombie movie at its most boring and unimaginative.
Creators haven't watch any movies of the series, no kidding, they just assumed it works like all the other generic zombie flicks and gone along with that idea, but the problem is that Return of the living dead doesn't follow the exact formula of zombie movies and the main difference in the series is that you can't kill the zombies - if you want them gone you must burn them to ashes and even then you must be careful because if it comes in contact with any kind of entity - living or dead they get infected and you get more zombies.
5 minutes into the movie zombie gets shot in the head and he dies, and I would even be OK with that if they explained that like some other generation or type of that stuff but they don't - hell, they even show the classic containers at the beginning, the doctor even brings back to life a separate hand at one point - what the hell?
This movie has everything one has come to expect from the Return of the Living Dead series, the school bimbo (who looks about 30), the hot nerd chick, the annoying little brother, the bad ass, the hero, the hero's girl, the jerk and the one that never really says anything and he dies and you realize that you forgot he was even part of the group.Think of it like this.
This is a RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD film, the zombies talk, some have intelligence.
It was, in a single sentence, not as bad as all that - take for example, the waste of life that was Day of the Dead 2: Contagium.Sure, the acting could have used some improvement in places, and the script could have used a LOT of reworking (implausible, full of holes and silly things), but I am just glad that people are still filming stories like this.
The first ROTLD movie was fantastic, I loved the zombie-humor mix, and the characters were stupid but still managed to be likable enough for me to want (at least some) of them to live.
Personally, I found the movie to be so intolerable due to the acting, that I didn't have time to worry about whether they were killing zombies by a shot to the head or not.
This might be worth watching as an example of how not to make a movie, but if you're looking for a good zombie film, I would recommend looking elsewhere..
Necrophilis is a scifi original dealing with an evil factory who produces trioxine and now a new generation of teens must take them on before they poison the entire world.While I appreciate the effort to give us a resident evil knockoff, it has none of the charm or style and good acting that made it a block buster.The kids are all good looking twenty year olds who attend high school, use four wheelers and walkies talkies to break in as if it were a walk in the park.The rules set up for the last there films are forgotten as a head shot now kills them and the has leaking from containers doesn't turn you into a zombie.
Also, the director apparently has never seen a return of the living dead movie.
if you want a zombie movie watch the first three films or Romero's films or the crazy (meant in a good way) brothers from Austrailia who made Undead.
This sequel isn't has funny has the first and second film but it does have some good moments and some nice scenes of people's brains getting torn open, this is the first time I've seen a young kid get his brains torn out and eaten.
I repeat: Did the people that wrote this move even see the first three??Anyone who is a fan of the first 3 films knows what I mean after seeing this movie.These zombies shamble around.
Also the gas kills real fast unlike the first two films.As a zombie movie fan I would tell people this movie isn't worth the watch.
If your a fan of the 'return of the living dead' movies, take my advice and DON'T watch it..
Return of the living dead was in my opinion a breakthrough film for its time, making zombie horror popular with the in thing.
One of the most important elements from the original Return of the Living Dead was that the zombies could not be killed.
In this movie there was a scene where the main star in the film (Cody) killed a zombie by snapping his neck.