Saturday, October 23, 2010  A Frank Review of "Return of the
Living Dead 3" (1993)  The Short Version? Romeo meets Zombiette
What Is It? Horror Who Is In It? Lady Heather, Officer Jim Reed,
Ursa Should I See It? Probably not.  Brian Yuzna directed the
overrated Society, and not much else you’d want on your IMDb
page. He specializes in horror movies that look like ambitious
but underfunded stage plays with bad lighting, including those
straight to video jobs that trailer movies you suddenly realize
from their presence you shouldn’t have rented. It takes a
special kind of ineptitude to release a two million dollar
sequel to a classic horror-comedy as a melodrama that only
recoups a quarter of its budget. Still, if only because of late
night showings in my formative years, I have a very small amount
of affection for Return of the Living Dead III. It isn’t in any
way objectively good, but it is surprisingly watchable, and has
memorable moments.  The movie opens on the set of a Wilson
Phillips video-- no wait, tha