Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2025

I typically don’t hold out a lot of hope for sequels, especially 80s sequels to 80s movies that were themselves comedic reboots of older films. But somehow despite the loss of Dan O’Bannon Return Of The Living Dead Part II not only works as a worthy successor, it leans into the ridiculous in such a way that I was laughing out loud when I wasn’t outright groaning. But even those groans were good-natured, making me nostalgic for a time when seemingly every 80s film looked and sounded like this one. How do you get nostalgic watching a film you’ve never seen? Because I’ve seen a variation of this films dozens, hundreds of times in my childhood. So sure, this might be technically worse than a lot of other films I may see this marathon. But it’s also guaranteed to have been more fun, too.