Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

Stars	User	Rating
6	TimeCapsule	58 _48th
As is tradition, while I may not have seen the OG classic 80's horror movie, I did see it's cheesy sequel, and I saw it way too young. So young in fact, that my memories are more feelings about the movie, instead of any actual recollection of the movie itself. Mainly, I remember this movie scaring the bejesus out of me. After this re-watch, while certainly watchable enough in its own right, seeing just how much of a comedy the movie was trying to be, I feel guilty for being such a scaredy cat.
5	BillyShears	70 _53rd
The RotLD sequel that took all the camp humour from the first film and just ran with it dropping all the horror along the way. Cut a few seconds out and you have a PG kids movie. I don’t know if there’s too much or too little James Karen in peril schtick in this.
4	Mentaculus	55 _28th
Deliciously bad, but still charming as hell. For some reason, it made me reminisce about Nickelodeon's Salute Your Shorts! and Pete & Pete; like this is a super gory horror version of Saturday morning YA entertainment. The Kid VS Zombie Bully Kid (= child actor rams a screwdriver into Zombie Bully Kid's mouth before frying his face off) is... so refreshing.
3	INDYATMN	72 _29th
O'Bannon pulled off an exceedingly rare feat w/ the first movie: making over-the-top absurdity that can easily be mistaken for so-bad-its-good camp (or just bad filmmaking) into an entertaining, surprising AND compelling film. Although the first 1/2 hour here offers an interesting enough variation on the set up of the first film, the rest leans too heavily on the parody & 2 actors literally rehashing their mugging and slapstick results in a ton of groanworthy jokes & increasingly sloppy plot.
3	Paxton	68 _53rd
They throw brains out of the back of a truck to lure the zombies to their second death so it probably deserves a metal.
3	FoxyRussian	73 _28th
With it's decision to go all campy instead of half horror half camp of the original, this sometimes has the odd feeling of a violent children's movie.
3	Sheldrake	30 _12th
I guess its fairly accurate to real life in that a zombie apocalypse would just be constant screaming and bad John Carpenter-lite music.
3	Yiannos	43 _10th
Weak sequel is essentially a retread of the original except with none of the charm or cinematic ingenuity. Considering that two of the main actors return from the previous installment to give god awful performances, the blame largely lies in the hands of the director, who ramps up the camp indiscriminately, much to the detriment of the overall film.
2	joseywales	71 _60th
Keeps rolling where the first RotLD left off. Wacky and gory. Shouldn't be missed.
2	Cinema_Asia	45 _7th
Disappointing and shitty sequel to the first one. What made the first good was that it didn't play everything up with camp and kept a certain amount of creepiness and uncertainty. This on the other hand was a retread with none of the charm.
2	jodamico	60 _14th
It has fun moments in the perfect 80s suburb with beep-boopy music and colorful lurching zombies, stretches of a minute or two at a time where it's like a movie version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors, but they don't last and overall it's a cocktail of unfunny dialogue and hammy repetition of the first film.
1	TheDenizen	70 _63rd
Sequel to the original zombie comedy ramps up the silliness factor and neuters the zombies to the point where they're not really scary, they're just fodder for more bad jokes. It's still pretty fun watching crap actors scream all their dialog at each other, and the line "Take that damn screwdriver outta my head" was an oft repeated gem around my house when I was younger. Good, but I like the original juuuust a bit more.
1	saucyjack	46 _25th
Not even close to the original horror comedy classic. Cut rate productions and poor attempts at humor.
1	Dustyd	50 _22nd
kinda lame but sort of entertaining
1	Luna6ix	84 _86th
Not as good as the first, but still wickedly entertaining and a worthy successor. "Return of the Living Dead" should have twenty more movies like this, but sadly there are not.
1	hellboy76	53 _17th
Poor compared to the first Return. Sacrifices all attempts at scares in favor of camp that was sometimes (but not constantly) present in the original.
1	PianoSama	65 _45th
It's a carbon copy of the first one in more ways than one, which makes it less interesting and less fun to watch. The campy performances are fun, but they get annoying at times. The romance subplot wound up being utterly pointless. The comedy feels a little forced at several points, and not much of it is funny. It isn't an awful movie, but it pales in comparison to the original and other horror/comedies like it.

Average Percentile 37.25% from 379 Ratings