Bede Vs. The Living Dead Episode 25 - Return Of The Living Dead: Necropolis (2005) and Return Of The Living Dead: Rave To The Grave (2005)

Hey, everyone! Welcome to episode 25 of Bede Vs. The Living Dead. The podcast where your host Bede Jermyn explores the remakes, re-edits, reimaginings, homages, unofficial follow-ups and more to George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night Of The Living Dead across all media. Now that the podcast's month-long celebration of the 55th anniversary of the release of Night Of The Living Dead in October is behind us, it's time for your host Bede to explore aspects of the film for the final two months of 2023. Believe me, there is quite a lot of interesting stuff coming up for the rest of the year. What has Bede have install for us for this one? After covering the first three well-known entires in the Return Of The Living Dead series in the past few episodes, it's time to take a look the franchise's filmed back-to-back but mostly forgotten final two films: the 2005 SyFy Channel original TV films Return Of The Living Dead: Necropolis and Return Of The Living Dead: Rave To The Grave, which were both directed by Ellory Elkayem (Eight Legged Freaks) and co-written by William Butler (who played Tom in the 1990 remake of Night Of The Living Dead). Joining Bede to discuss these two little seen Return Of The Living Dead TV sequels is returning (no pun inteneded) guest Marcus Wilturner (writer/contributor for ⁠⁠⁠The Super Network⁠⁠⁠, who makes his 7th appearance on the show). Highlights in this one include Bede & Marcus debating if Peter Coyote's bizarre performance in both the sequels is good or not, how both sequels work as follow-up to the previous installments, enjoying the guilty-pleasure elements of Necropolis, being puzzled over how shoddy Rave To The Grave is put together, wondering if the ROTLD series hates homeless people, which famous horror filmmaking legened was original attached to direct both these films and so much more. Social Media Links: Show Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@BedeVsTLD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@BedeJermyn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host on Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@BedeJermyn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Link Tree - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/bedevsthelivingdead⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host's Other Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/TheSuperNetwork⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Links: Guests on Twitter/X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@EgoCriticDemise⁠ Credits: Art Work by Super Marcey Podcast Music Provided by DeNNo