Review of Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) by Ian C — 04 Mar 2011
A military truck loses a barrel of Trioxin that is opened by two young boys who release toxic gas, reanimating the dead. For some reason, the zombies in this film remind me of Michael Jackson's Thriller video (even having one look like him in the final segment of the film).
I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, though. I believe the zombies on that mini-film were shot very well and captured the horror factor it was aiming to deliver. You also have some returning actors from The Return of the Living Dead in the graverobbers, James Karen and Thom Matthews.
It would have been nice to cast two different actors in their place; just to change the film around a bit. They perished in the first film and to say "Part II" is pretty dim-witted. It's like the director was going for a series similiar to The Evil Dead; keeping the same numerals, but changing the introduction.
Return of the Living Dead Part II upgraded on everything, giving us more laughs than on it's previous venture. The gore is still quite lively, as is the intelligence from the undead; giving us more personality when it comes to describing them.
The zombie scenes were pretty chaotic and random providing added ingenuity in what they did---one having a ghoul stop to watch some girls do aerobics on TV and operating a vehicle, for example. The film is a vast improvement over the first part, dealing with more imaginative settings and a slew of colorful undead individuals.
This review of Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) was written by Ian C on 04 Mar 2011.
Return of the Living Dead Part II has generally received mixed reviews.
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