Q & A with JAMES KAREN after a screening of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, recorded May 20, 2013

Summary: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD: (1985, Dan O’Bannon) At the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse in Louisville, bumbling foreman James Karen (in a comic tour de force) unwittingly releases some toxic gases — the remains of a government experiment gone horribly wrong — resulting in a brain-eating free-for-all of the town’s party-loving Undead. Directorial debut for Dark Star/Alien screenwriter O’Bannon. Introduced by veteran character actor James Karen (The Pursuit of Happyness, Mulholland Dr., Poltergeist, Wall Street, etc., etc. — but perhaps best known to New Yorkers as “The Pathmark Man”), with Q&A to follow screening. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with JAMES KAREN, recorded May 20, 2013 at Film Forum after a screening of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.