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This doc offers a tight and engrossing 20 minute look at the making of the third entry in the "Return of the Living Dead" franchise. Brian Peck, who's the sole cast member to appear in all three films, talks about a script he and make-up artist Kenny Myers came up with which got rejected. Director Brian Yuzna and writer John Penney recall how they both got attached to the project. Moreover, Penney reveals that his screenplay about the difficulty of letting go of someone you love who has just died was inspired by the recent death of his father and openly acknowledges that the central tragic love story was patterned after Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Lead actor J. Trevor Howard talks about his audition as well as his refusal to do nudity and the difficulty he had with a big crying scene. In addition, we find out that Don Calfa and James Karen from the first one were considered for roles, the casting of Kent McCord and Sarah Douglas in principal supporting parts (Yuzna remarks that Douglas was hard on people on the set in a good sort of way), a scrawny homeless man who was cast as a zombie had trouble with the leather thong he was wearing, the casting of Mindy Clarke in the female lead, Yuzna wisely having several make-up teams handle various effects for the picture, and the notorious sequence where Clarke's character pierces herself with glass shards and whatnot. Boasting some nifty videotaped behind-the-scenes footage, this one's well worth a watch for fans of the film.