Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

 This is the sequel to 1985's 'Return of the Living Dead', which it's self was an early example of a meta-sequel, in this case to 1968's 'Night of the Living Dead'. The comic chemistry between James Karen and Thom Matthew's was a great strength of the first film, but those characters die there in, so the actors are brought back as different characters with the same dynamic.

The first films A plot is largley replicated in the B plot here, but the first films B plot is replaced by a very different A plot; so the movie does a good job of staying true to what worked in the original, without being too much of remake/rehash, a problem with many an 80s/90s sequel. Still this isn't on the level of the 85 film, though I found it mostly enjoyable all the same. **