The Return of the Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon 1985
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Missing Gothic Indie Films
This is a long shot, but honestly I didn’t know how else to find them, and I thought I’d post this here on the off chance that either you or someone out there might know of the films I’m going to talk about.
Anyways, many years ago (I was in my early to mid teens, living in Canada at the time), and one early morning I saw one full indie film, and a small portion of another.
One was about The Grim Reaper teaching his 18 year old son how to do what he does, but his son didn’t want to reap souls. Instead he wanted to make friends with people. Eventually, the two made a bet that if the son could successfully make friends with the people in this one house, then the son would be exempt from harvesting souls (or something… Again, going by memory).
But when the son goes into the house, the husband, wife, and their young son are all terrified by this intruder “claiming” to be the grim reaper’s son. But also, their 18 year old daughter ends up terrifying the reaper’s son because she keeps trying to have some alone time with him, and he wants no part of that.
The only part of that movie that stuck with me for years is when the husband of the house screams “WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!!” and opens the door to find the Grim Reaper standing there with a big smile saying “How’s he doing??”
The other one (the one I saw only a part of) was about this alternate reality where dead people lived. I guess they were zombies because they’d crawl out of the ground each morning, but they weren’t rotted.
The main character was this woman who I can only describe as “Sally Skellington’s goth big sister” (Like, she looked A LOT like Sally). There’s a part where a narrator goes “And her favorite hobby was playing with birds”… She then whips out a shotgun, bags two crows, and then gets on her knees and starts to play with them like they’re dolls. I THINK that one was supposed to be a love story, because I vaguely remember a man her age crawling out of the earth like she did, but I don’t remember for sure.
I’ve been trying to find both of these films for years, and I’ve searched in a billion ways with zero success. If you or anyone else knows which movies they are, please let me know, because it’s been driving me crazy for years!!
Tawney: We were able to determine over DM that the first movie was The Dim Reaper. Thanks, IMDB. M0rt1s is still looking for the second, though.
All we know is that she’s definitely not Julie from Return of the Living Dead III. Also, there’s a lot more zombie/undead-centric short films than ones about the Grim Reaper.
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