CineNiche

June 28, 2021 - July 4, 2021 • We're All Going To The World's Fair • Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game • Winterbeast • Broadcast Signal Intrusion • Zola • Smooth Talk • Surf II • Vicious Fun • Ghoulies III • Jaws • Cruel Jaws • Fear Street 1994 • Batman The Long Halloween Part 1 • Night Moves • Manhunter • Body Double • The Return Of The Living Dead • --------------------------------------- Hello readers. The quote that always gets stuck in my head around this time of year is from Dazed And Confused (1993) : "Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes." But that's not what I came here to tell you about... Welcome to This Week In Film where we crea...

Jo John Russo who helped write the screenplay Night of the Living Dead went on to write his own sequel to the 1968 film, called Return of the Living Dead . Since both Russo and Romero owned the rights to Night each of them retained privileges to its title. Romero kept Dead and Russo was able to keep Living Dead . John Russo wrote his screenplay the same year Romero released Dawn of the Dead (1978) . An independent producer, Tom Fox, purchased his script and gave it to Dan O’Bannon. Return of the Living Dead was released in theaters one month after Day of the Dead and received an instant fan base and reputation as a punk inspired horror/comedy. Originally Tom Fox wanted Tobe Hooper to direct the film and supposedly it was to be in 3-D, but Hooper was tied up working on his film Lifeforce and could not take the job. Dan O’Bannon was connected to Lifefoce as the writer and had been interested in directing so Fox gave the script over to him. O’Bannon began his film c...