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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peņa made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Return of the Living Dead 3

Story
Colonel Reynolds works for the government with a group of scientists that work on bringing the dead back to life so that the military can use them. He has a son name Curt and Curt has a girlfriend named Julie who gets her boyfriend to steal his dad's security pass so they can get access and sneak into the military base were the re-animation is going on. Later on when Curt and Julie are riding Curt's motorcycle they get into a accident and Julie ends up dead. Curt then takes her body back to the military base to try and bring her back to life again which he also success in doing but she ends up being completely different and things doesn't seem to work out the way they were supposed to.

Comments
Brian Yuzna has made some great movies like The Dentist and more. He has a certain style to his movies which makes them different and very enjoyable and so is Return of the Living Dead 3.

You would think that a second sequel would most likely suck but Return of the Living Dead 3 is among the best actual sequels I've seen that I can think of when writing this. It stays true to the brilliant original movie even if it goes its totally own way and that is just one reason that makes it great.

If you have seen other movies by Brian Yuzna you might can figure out what kind of movie or what typ of humour to expect, if you haven't it doesn't matter, either way you're in for 97 minutes of great entertainment.

It has some gore and some horror elements but it's all done with a type of humour so it never gets scary, but is always a 100 percent entertaining. The story is pretty cool, one could say it's somewhat tragic, and the effects are very nicely done. The actors all do a good and belivable job and the movie is fast paced and will grab your attention easily.

Final Comments
Great gore, great fun! Very different and not as good as the first flick, but that separates itself from the original and the sequel as well, but still has the great Return of the Living Dead feel to it.

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Return of the Living Dead 3

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MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: Brian Yuzna
WRITING CREDITS: John Penney
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
CAST: Melinda Clarke, Abigail Lenz, J. Trevor Edmond
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 97 min

RATING: 8/10

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