The Return of the Living Dead

George A. Romero's "Return of the Living Dead" (1985) sends up its own zombie lore with gleeful abandon, as two slack-jawed warehouse workers unleash a noxious mist that resurrects the undead with a taste for brains and a penchant for pop culture parody. The film's deadpan absurdity and raucous, blood-soaked humor carve out a cult classic that revels in the grisly, the goofy, and the gloriously taboo.