Investigative reporter Morgan Randall (Robert Deveau) discovers that crazy Dr. Kapek (Leonard Corman) is bringing the dead back to life; when his friend Shelly (Donna Asali) is abducted by Kapek's reanimated corpses, Morgan launches a rescue attempt with the help of elderly physician Dr. Carstairs (Robert Allen), a useless armed guard, and an irritating kid (porn-star-to-be Scott Schwartz) who has constructed a pair of ray-guns from an old laser-disc player.I'm pretty tolerant when it comes to Z-grade movies, having seen more than my fair share of absolute stinkers over the years, but I still had to watch Raiders of the Living Dead over the course of several evenings thanks to its incredible ability to rapidly send me off to sleep. Atrocious acting, boring direction, disjointed editing, an over-reliance on The 3 Stooges, and particularly dreadful laser effects all go to make this a truly painful viewing experience that is only spared the absolute lowest rating from me thanks to one shotgun blast to a zombie head (it's not great but it's definitely the highlight of this tosh) and the film's hilariously bad '80s theme song.

Some people said this movie is a B-type of movie that others may like.... NOPE WRONG!!!! This movie doesn't even have the redeeming quality of a B-movie this movie is a steamy pile of dog**** This movie puts the "B" in boring... Its almost upsetting, someone in the cutting room would consider this to be anything besides ****, what the hell was the director trying to do here? Its not even like when a movie is so bad, its a laugh etc..Like I said, no redeeming quality, its just ****Its very simple, if you like to watch paint dry... then you'll love this movie.Scott should have never agreed to doing this heaping pile of crap. I don't know what his management or Scott was thinking..I'm forced to give it 1 star, when I would give it -5 stars.

Well what can i say?? an hour and a half...gone...out of my life!We got this "classic" off the internet with the high hopes of rolling around the floor in hysterics at, what i remembered from when i was a kid, the worst acting and story line ever. well i laughed....and almost cried too. basically the story starts with a car chase (riviting viewing i do declare) where a "terrorist" has taken hostages and will kill them if certain prisoners are not released. once the very well trained SWAT team takes charge of this misadventure from our terrorist friend, he escapes only to engage in a game of cat and mouse with the unarmed SWAT member. he gets electrocuted, oh dear! all this takes about 20 minutes or so and our lead bad guy/hostages/cops/civilians and SWAT teams have not exchanged dialog yet!!its been a 20 minute journey into the mime era and, holy Jesus, were they crap mimes!!Anyway, this is where our story links in with the living dead. the dead "terrorist" is in a morgue, only o be injected with something from a man whose face we do not see. and then he comes back to life.pretty straight forward, yes?? yes. not quite, you haven't reached the end yet! our fine heroes (a photographer and a reporter, i think) decide to go to an abandoned something or other and write a story (neither of which know why they are there by the way) only to come face to face with the most gruesome zombies i have ever seen. they get away and all is well except you never see the female reporter again! (she is not part of the story so don't worry). now to the finest young actor you can be sure Dekota Fanning took lessons from. he decides to try and turn a laser disk player into a LASER! yes, i said it, a LASER! and , hey presto, he does so and kills his hamster. all he had to do to achieve this was fiddle with fuses and explain some nonsense about intertwining the target which is the blah blah blah. so, back to our hero, he is walking along the road and almost gets run over but he was rescued by one of the many trusting, accommodating towns people he meets on his epic voyage. This ex-police officer takes him in, trusts him beyond a doubt and becomes involved with him (all in the space of about 8 hours). So he gets into trouble again with zombies, i think, and the kids grandfather takes our hero to stay with him. he tells all to the gullible towns doctor who is also the grandfather of the kid and the finest archer in the land. and now the spoilers.....they find out the doctor who, in a wild twit of events turns out to be the coroner for the prison back in the fifties which i definitely didn't see coming (considering there was no reference to him at all!!!). With the kids new found death ray they kill the living dead, the grandfather, whose choice of weapon was a bow and arrow, takes the doctor under civil arrest and they all live happily ever after. the end?? this film is the perfect choice for people who want to laugh at true stupidity and it certainly provides that but the fact that shoots, which would only be 2 seconds in any other film, takes at least a minute each time.i cant explain it too well but you will know what i mean when you see this gem. i am telling you now, try and find this film and have a laugh but be patient with the story lines, directing and production. its not quite Bad Boys 2 or even the play schools version of The Miracle Worker but its definitely one which should become a cult classic! i'm going to give it a whooping 5/10 for the laughter i experienced!!

I am a fan of bad movies and regularly buy more movie waste, but this was just too much even for a freak. I'm not even sure if this was worse or better than Manos but in my opinion these two should be the bottom two! First 15 minutes is just random stuff happening. There is a truck and then there is a nuclear power plant. And some guys. There is also a car chase. Here is where you take the DVD-cover and look at it again and check the name of the movie. "Raiders of the Living Dead", OK. Then you want to check if the disc you put in your player is the correct one. And these scenes actually were the best this movie has to offer. Basically the rest is just a big plot hole. If you aren't on a mission to watch through all of top 100 Worst of IMDb, do not waste your time with this.