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It appears we have a winner! Here were the results:
The Beyond: 3 (MichaelMyears, Giganticface, and tiberius)
Day of the Dead: 5 (The Villain, realdealblues, Anthropophagus, knife_fight, and xX__StarChild_Xx)
Return of the Living Dead: 6 (V, hammerfan, Sculpt, knife_fight, natedog722, and metternich1815-tie breaking vote)
Thus, after an incredibly close match and with the thread creator participating, Return of the Living Dead has come out the winner!
Unfortunately, I have never seen Day of the Dead and this is the primary reason I could not vote for that film (it is in my Netflix DVD queue though). If the tie would have been between The Beyond and Return of the Living Dead, it would have been much harder, but unfortunately it was not. With that being said, I believe that Return of the Living Dead is a brilliant spin on the zombie sub-genre. It is both funny with numerous one-liners and an intentionally over-the-top ending, while also remaining quite dark. Plus, this is the film where people get the idea that zombies eat brains (also the director of this film, Dan O'Bannon, was the principal writer of Alien). Definitely a worthy film to represent the zombie sub-genre in the 1980s.
We will now move into our final round. Deciding which film is the best of the 1980s.
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