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Return of the Living Dead 2

Cast

Ed Jim Karen
Joey Thom Matthews
Jesse Wilson Michael Kenworthy
Lucy Wilson Marsha Dietlein
Tom Essex Dana Ashbrook

Stats

Director Ken Wiederhorn
Rated R
Release Date Jan 15, 1988
Runtime 89 min.

Score

Plot

A barrel contains a body from the incident that took place in part one is being escorted by an army truck, to it's containment center.  One of the barrels falls off the back of the truck.  A couple of kids find it and open it, and the gasses from inside of the barrel are causing the dead to once again rise and walk the earth.

Review

I am a huge fan of zombie movies, especially Return of the living dead. So I was pretty excited to pop this movie in the VCR and have some alone time with my very best friend... Mr. Violence.  I was expecting more from this movie, being such a big fan of the previous installment.  Not to say that it is a bad movie, it is just flawed.

For one, the zombies talk to much for my likings, and some of them talk with out even moaning, so it is like a normal person.  I don't really care for that much talking, they should have stuck to the classic BRAIN comment, and not have expanded too much on the talking aspect.  Overall the zombies looked great, realistic (if there is such a thing as a zombie that is realistic).  Although when they walk they all walk the same.  It looks as if they were told a cretin way that a zombie should walk, I would have appreciated a little more improvisation of zombie movement to make it seem more authentic instead of looking choreographed.
The acting was a big plus, the brother and sister were like a cat and a mouse, always fighting.  Even when the brother is missing in a town full of zombies, the cable guy says they should look for him and the sister says that she don't no if she wants to find her brother.  Spoken like a true brother sister relationship.
So over all this is a pretty decent sequel.  Which is saying a lot considering how good the original was.

Gore

You can't have a zombie movie with out gore can you?  We get zombie bites, brain eating, a ripped off jaw, bullet holes, and much more.

 

4/10/04

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