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[Video] Watch ‘Return of the Living Dead’ Recreated in ‘GTA Online’
There’s plenty of invention in the GTA community, and a common source of that is when creators dabble in recreating movie trailers within the game’s city of Lost Santos.
YouTube creator gigerbrick (David B Vann) has plenty of experience with this, but rather than recreate the latest blockbuster trailers, David makes GTA-based trailers for cult film and horror fare instead, and his latest creation sees him reanimate the Return of the Living Dead in an impressive trailer.
The trailer was made with the help of other community members using GTA Online footage edited together in an attempt to go beat-for-beat with an original trailer for 1985 zombie classic Return of the Living Dead. The players involved all customized their GTA Online characters to look like the cast of the film, and mods help fill in the blanks
The Tar Man makes an appearance thanks to a modded character skin, and Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead) sort of has a small cameo as GTA V‘s Trevor playing a cop.
In addition to this trailer recreation, gigerbrick has previously completed similar projects for The Thing, Death Race 2000, Cobra, and Death Wish 3.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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