Return of the Living Dead part 2 Just Might Appeal to Non-Horror Fans
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The Zombie Master Lee Roberts gives his take on Return of the Living Dead part 2 - Read the review and hear the story of a fledgling Zombie Master.
Review by The Zombie Master Lee Roberts
2006
Release: 1988
Written and Directed by: Ken Wiederhorn
Starring:
James Karen as Ed
Thom Mathews as Joey
Michael Kenworthy as Jesse Wilson
Marsha Dietlein as Lucy Wilson
Suzanne Snyder as Brenda
While playing chauffeur for my teenage daughter and her friends I heard something that I had never heard before. One of her friends said that she was not a horror movie fan but she was a zombie movie fan. Almost forty years old and I had never met such an anomaly before. This was like discovering a new species. The “Zombie Masters” version of the holy grail. I could not let them get out of the car without asking what her favorite movie was. The answer was interesting as well. “Return of the Living Dead Part 2”, she said. “Not part 1?” I responded. “Nope.”, she answered. I was reminded that she was only a teenager and probably didn’t have a proper zombie mentor so I gave her a list of movies for her to watch on her wonderful journey toward zombie masterdom. What she did for me was to remind me of another good entry into the zombie genre.
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 brings us back to the zombie creating Trioxin 245. Seems the Army lost another containment unit and it just so happened that some kids found it. Two of the kids decide that it might be a good idea to try and open the container and they get a full blast of Trioxin right in the face.
At the same time, two familiar faces, James Karen and Thom Matthews (from the first Return of the Living Dead), are grave robbers Ed and Joey. They are doing their “job” when the mist from the Trioxin starts to cover the grave yard and seeps into the mausoleum that Ed and Joey are in.
The dead start to wake up (yeah) and do what Trioxin created zombies do. They search for “Brrraaaaiiiinnnnnsss”. Ed and Joey, in the meantime, are feeling the effects of the Trioxin by the way of rigor mortis. Great zombie effects lead you through the remainder of the film satisfying any zombie fan.
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 almost finds itself falling into the sequel trap that normally dooms one to failure. By trying too hard to make a sequel as good as the first, film makers spend too much time comparing rather than filming. But, remember that I said almost.
Return of the Living Dead Part 2 succeeds, as its predecessor did, in making fun of its own
genre. Though not as well as Dan O’Bannon (part 1 writer/director), Ken Wiederhorn
(writer/director) makes his own mark at satirizing zombie films while giving due props to
O’Bannon.
Though not as good as the first, Return of the Living Dead Part 2 is a good addition to
the series with good gags to make you chuckle and good gore to make the squeamish cower.
A must see for any age of zombie fan. Questions
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