How is “set in” used?

In The Return of the Living Dead (1985), one line is: “You know, it... looks like rigor mortis is setting in.”

Which movie is “set in” from?

The clip at the top of this page is from The Return of the Living Dead (1985).

set in

to begin and seem likely to continue; (of a story, film, or play) to take place in a particular place or time; fixed in one's habits and unwilling to change (set in one's ways); to fasten sth into a flat surface so that it does not stick out from it

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to begin and seem likely to continue
Day two or three, hunger really started to set in.
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(of a story, film, or play) to take place in a particular place or time
Definición editorial5% de las películas
fixed in one's habits and unwilling to change (set in one's ways)
Oxford5% de las películas
to fasten sth into a flat surface so that it does not stick out from it

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Definiciones del Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9.ª edición

You know, it... looks like rigor mortis is setting in.

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)60:13

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