#ending on a prettttty bad cover of the monster mash. there's some fun to be had here in a generic and brainless (har) kind of way but
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Return of the Living Dead: Part II (1988)
"Is it serious?"
"Is dead serious?"
#return of the living dead: part ii#horror imagery#gore tw#1988#american cinema#horror film#ken wiederhorn#james karen#thom mathews#thor van lingen#suzanne snyder#michael kenworthy#jason hogan#marsha dietlein#jonathan terry#dana ashbrook#philip bruns#art bonilla#mitch pileggi#sally smythe#slightly disappointing sequel to a brilliantly inventive original. makes some curious choices in recasting Karen and Mathews from the#first movie as different characters that are still somehow kind of identical to the ones they played previously.#the bigger issue is that the first film managed to balance real horror with absurd dark humour perfectly but this one just can't get the#ratio right at all; far too much of this is goofy‚ silly humour without any real tension or commitment to actually being horror. i mean#it's gory and gloopy sure‚ but it's also weirdly toothless and sanitised: the main character is a kid and his sister‚ and tonally it feels#very different to part 1. there's none of the darkness nor the willingness to subvert expectations that made the og film such a brilliant#iconic bit of 80s horror media. something else the original had? a killer punk soundtrack‚ but yikes this one drops the ball there too#ending on a prettttty bad cover of the monster mash. there's some fun to be had here in a generic and brainless (har) kind of way but#this is a pale imitation of the film it's copying in places almost beat for beat
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