> Return of the Living Dead by John Russo (MP3, MB, mins)

Tying into Now Playing's Return of the Living Dead bonus retrospective series, Stuart in LA looks back at John Russo's original 1977 novel Return of the Living Dead

Show Notes:
Return of the Living Dead is best known for being a 1985 horror-comedy film that is both a sequel to and a spoof of George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead.  However, few know of the messy history behind the film, and that it originally started off as a novel written by Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo and released in 1977.  A straight follow-up to Romero's original film, Russo's novel bears little resemblance to the film that would follow 8 years later.  But now as part of Now Playing's Return of the Living Dead bonus retrospective series Stuart in LA reads and reviews the original novel and tells how this book became the 1985 cult classic!

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