Return of the Living Dead Part II
(1988)DIRECTOR Ken Wiederhorn, who also helmed Meatballs Part II
CALL IT... The One Starring a Kid
PREMISE Jesse (Michael Kenworthy, right, protected from a zombie by Dana Ashbrook, left) is the shy boy in a new housing development. The local bullies there stumble across, and subsequently open, a canister of 245 Trioxin that fell off a military vehicle and settled in a tunnel...near a cemetery, of course.
BEST ZOMBIE The goofy one at the end of the movie who's styled exactly like Michael Jackson in the ''Thriller'' video. (Other silly moments: A severed hand shooting a bird, the decapitated head of a woman demanding that a screwdriver be removed from her brain....)
GORIEST DEATH More fun with screwdrivers! Jesse sticks one through his nemesis, Billy (Thor Van Lingen).
WHAT EW SAID ''Part II, described by its director as a 'horror comedy,' sadly comes up wanting in both genres.'' EW Video Grade: C- (Read the review)
