living dead redux

last night, my friend came over with Return of the Living Dead, which is an awesome punk/zombie horror flick from the mid-80s. the story revolves around a gang of punk teenagers, except for a random preppy girl and an even more random swing/mod kid. the leader of the crew is a hardcore punk dude named suicide, who has a girlfriend named trash (my favorite name in this movie, though, is Scuz.. haha). trash has the most amazing look ever! it took me a minute or ten to find a picture on the interwebs, because she's stark naked (save for full-leg grey leg warmers that would make american apparel weep) for almost the entire movie..

aforementioned grey stockings/legwarmers, scandalous black leather shorts, leopard tank top, vest that looks like a cross between michael jackson's thriller jacket and a star trek uniform, and what looks like full-arm fingerless gloves= totally badass


at first i dug her flame red punk hairdo, but up close it looks kind of grody because they obviously sprayed it instead of dyeing and gelling it, bleh. with her hair and the face designs, she looks like a cross between ronald mcdonald and a character from Dune or something. can you tell i like making cross-culture reference comparisons?


there was another character with a pretty cool look as well, named casey-- however, i couldn't find a picture of her.. aren't you supposed to be able to find just about anything on the interwebs? anyhow, she was wearing a robin's egg blue short knit dress that was off the shoulder and belted: very classic 80s, with a touch of punk with her blue "bird of paradise" updo-- my friend's way of putting it, which was apt enough.

all in all, a fun movie to watch-- makes me want to find more obscure 80s flicks to draw fashion inspiration from..