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“Return of the Living Dead Part II” is an American comedy horror film, released in 1988. The film is written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn. Starring Michael Kenworthy, Marsha Dietlein, Dana Ashbrook, Thom Mathews, James Karen and Phil Bruns. This is the second installment in the four-part series of “Return of the Living Dead.”

“Return of the Living Dead Part II” was released by Lorimar Motion Pictures on January 15, 1988. While not a box office hit, the film grossed over $9 million at the box office. box office in the United States, surpassing a production budget of $6.2 million.

The Return of the Living Dead Part II movie production

After the success of the movie “The Return of the Living Dead”, producer Tom Fox decided to self-finance the sequel in the belief that it was a safe investment. He was inspired by the success of the series “Friday the 13th“. Fox recruited Ken Wiederhorn to write and direct the sequel. Initially, Fox wanted the sequel to continue in the form of a simple horror movie, while Wiederhorn wanted to increase the humorous element as seen in the previous installment. And this element was adopted by Fox.

Actors James Karen and Thom Mathews, who played medical supply warehouse workers Frank and Freddy in “The Return of the Living Dead,” continue to appear in “Return of the Living Dead Part II.” However, in this part, they play different characters than in the first part. Similar to the previous part, they gradually turn into zombies after being exposed to the poisonous gas. During the production of the second season, Thom Mathews told Fangoria magazine, “This time I had to eat a girl’s brain”.

The media

“Return of the Living Dead Part II” was released on DVD in 2004, and featured a significant change in the soundtrack.

In an August 2012 interview, actress Marsha Dietlein was asked whether the film would receive a new DVD re-release or possibly a “special” version, as previously reported. made for the first part of the series. “I hope they do, but I haven’t heard anything about it yet,” she said.

This movie was released on Blu-ray in 2018 by Shout! Factory. This version includes a new 2K scan of the movie, plus a bunch of new special features that weren’t previously available on the DVD version. At the same time, the Blu-ray version also restores the original theatrical soundtrack that was previously removed in the DVD version.

Return of the Living Dead Part II movie plot (1988)

A US military truck was transporting a container of Trioxin, when one of these containers suddenly became loose and fell into the river without the driver’s knowledge. The next morning, two bullies, Johnny and Billy, take Jesse Wilson to the cemetery to join their group. In a panic, Jesse hid in a nearby sewer, where the three stumbled upon an abandoned barrel. When they opened the lid, they discovered a dead body inside and in a panic, the toxic gas Trioxin began to pour out. When Jesse suggested calling the army from the number on the box, the other two set a trap and left him at an unknown grave.

Billy and Johnny go back to the barrel and open it, releasing Trioxin gas that fills the entire cemetery with Trioxin gas. The grave robbers Ed and Joey, along with Brenda and Joey’s girlfriend, arrive at the cemetery in a van. While Brenda waited in the car, Ed and Joey opened the grave to loot the graves, while Jesse fled home. At the same time, the acid rain causes Trioxin to seep into the ground, awakening the corpses and turning them into the undead.

At home, Jesse’s sister Lucy forces him to do his homework. However, Jesse sneaks out of the house when a cable repairman named Tom arrives to visit Billy who is sick. Under the influence of the Trioxin, Billy warns Jesse not to reveal information about the zombies he has seen. Then Jesse went back to the drain to inspect the barrel. But when he saw a zombie covered in asphalt, Jesse ran to the cemetery, where the bodies began to slowly crawl out of the ground. In the mausoleum, Ed and Joey witness a corpse resurrected. Joey used a crowbar to hit the undead in the head and the two fled the cemetery. They stumble across a panicking Brenda, as the undead grow and become stronger.

Jesse returns home and tries to tell Lucy about the zombie uprising, but Lucy doesn’t believe him and locks him in his room. Jesse then lit a fire to turn on the fire alarm thus giving himself a chance to escape. Jesse phoned the army and contacted Colonel Glover, but the call was disconnected. Ed, Joey and Brenda steal Tom’s truck, but can’t avoid the zombies, so they pull over to Jesse’s house. Joey began to exhibit cadaveric muscle stiffness (the body stiffens like a corpse after death) from exposure to Trioxin. As the zombies approach the house, the group of survivors tries to find a means of escape. They break into a doctor’s house and convince him to let them use his car, then they drive to the hospital’s emergency room, but the place becomes eerily deserted.

At Billy’s house, his father is attacked and eaten by the undead. Billy was completely turned into a zombie and attacked his mother. Elsewhere, Tom, Lucy, and Jesse drive through an abandoned town to Lucy and Jesse’s grandfather’s house, where they arm themselves with guns. They then returned to the hospital where Ed and Joey were suffering from cadaveric muscle stiffness. At that moment, Jesse is attacked by a zombie, and both Jesse and Tom have to shoot multiple bullets to destroy it. The group, including Joey and Ed, get in the car and stumble across a squad of National Guardsmen. At that moment, Ed was transformed into a fully undead and attacked a soldier, killing his comrade, causing the rest of the comrades to flee. Brenda drives with Joey, and leaves Ed behind. Right after that, Brenda was also attacked and eaten by Joey because she too became a zombie

In the stolen ambulance, the survivors face many difficulties and are shot by the National Guard, mistakenly thinking they are the undead. Realizing that the town has been evacuated, Tom leads them to a meat packing factory. They use a truck to drive to a power plant, with the intention of using electric current to destroy all zombies. When Billy opened the gate, the zombies approached and approached them, Jesse activated the power of the device, sending an electric shock all over the place. The zombies were devastated by the power of electricity. Billy then tries to attack to kill Jesse, but Jesse quickly pushes him into a large transformer, killing Billy. Afterwards, Colonel Glover and his crew arrived to handle the scene and guide other survivors away from the site.

Main actor

James Karen as Ed
Thom Mathews as Joey
Marsha Dietlein as Lucy
Dana Ashbrook as Tom
Michael Kenworthy as Jesse
Phil Bruns as doctor
Suzanne Snyder as Brenda
Thor Van Lingen as Billy
Jason Hogan as Johnny
Mitch Pileggi as Sarge
Jonathan Terry as Colonel Glover
Sally Smythe as Mildred
Don Maxwell as George
Forrest J Ackerman as Harvey Kramer
Allan Trautman as Tarman
Douglas Benson as Zombie with a high-pitched voice