A late afternoon that year 1988 i was in 3rd grade bored after school. I wasn't allowed to ride the schoolbus after my wimpy brother 2 years younger than me started the first grade. Now daily our mom picked us up In a white Chevy Chevette our mom took myself and my little brother too see a random movie at a mall in Barboursville wv. Well it happened to be this one. It was scary to me at that time but when I watch it now i cannot understand except for personal reasons. When I was very young I didn't like horror movies. I would watch them st home and hide my head when sth happened,, a game from times older siblings had hated me saying i would die if i didn't. So being out in a public place with one of those things didn't sound fun. I had made a friend out of shaggy and scooby by Kgrade. My mom agreed if it started bothering me we could leave. Really she like the other kids got a kick out of the hazing. When the tarman came onscreen i got up and left lol which she grabbed me by the arm swearing she paid her 1 dollar 50 cent matinee fare times 3 and wasn't keeping her end of the deal. So i sat through the loud music groans missing all the jokes and cultural schlock like a cowardly housecat forced to partake in a 4th of July fireworks and beer party. Looking back that was the only way it could've scared anyone. Had I been even average for my age I would have picked out the tired and used formula. At least the first film of the series had a few firsts. This one is very derivative of the original. Actors sleepwalking through a repeat role like in the first film just four years older and without O'Bannon a TSOL punk rock soundtrack or any of the edgey feeling the first movie tried to convey. No instead its some annoying kid trying to call the army while checking out his sisters goods. Probably the only gross out the movie pulls off. Memory i have in my life still and I haven't lived near Barboursville or 1988 for an eon. TBH I haven't been to a mall for years by now.
Review of Return of the Living Dead II
