Return of the Living Dead: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 7 h 40 min. The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead.

1. 
   Movie 1

   The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

   1 h 31 min · ★ 7.2

   Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

2. 
   Movie 2

   Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

   1 h 29 min · ★ 6.4

   A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.

3. 
   Movie 3

   Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

   1 h 37 min · ★ 6.6

   Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.

4. 
   Movie 4

   Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)

   1 h 28 min · ★ 5.2

   In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.

5. 
   Movie 5

   Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)

   1 h 35 min · ★ 5.1

   A student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' which has the unexpected side effect of resurrecting the dead as flesh-eating zombies, who proceed to wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.