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Return of the Living Dead II (1988) on Netflix

R19881h 29mComedyHorrorSci-Fi

Bullies Johnny and Billy Crowley trap Jesse Wilson in a cemetery mausoleum after the three find a leaking Trioxin barrel in a storm drain. The gas spreads through the cemetery.

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  • IMDb5.7/1023,751 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes5%

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A military truck loses a barrel of Trioxin into a river. Johnny and Billy Crowley take Jesse Wilson to a cemetery, where they find the barrel in a storm drain. It holds a corpse, and opening it releases gas. Jesse wants to call the Army using a number on the barrel, so the bullies trap him in the mausoleum. They return and open the barrel, and gas spreads through the cemetery. Grave robbers Ed Mathews and Joey Hazel arrive by van with Joey's girlfriend Brenda Herzog. Ed and Joey enter the mausoleum to loot the tombs, and Jesse runs home.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Return of the Living Dead II (1988)

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  • James Karen and Thom Mathews came back only because Japanese backers demanded it. Mathews said in 2016 that the first film was such a hit in Japan that the money for Part II depended on the pair returning in some form, although they play different characters this time.
  • Producer Tom Fox wanted the sequel played as straight horror, but writer-director Ken Wiederhorn argued for leaning further into the comedy of the first film, and Fox let him take it that way.

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