Where was The Return of the Living Dead filmed?

1985 American black comedy/zombie film directed by Dan O'Bannon

The Return of the Living Dead (1985) was filmed in Burbank, Downtown Los Angeles and Sylmar, 3 places named in its Wikipedia article's Filming section, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as California. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

Part of the Return of the Living Dead film series

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Places per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 3 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in California, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

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