Return of the Living Dead Part II is a 1988[4] American comedy horror film written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn, and starring Michael Kenworthy, Marsha Dietlein, Dana Ashbrook, Thom Mathews, James Karen, and Phil Bruns.

Set some time after the events of the first film, a U.S. military truck is transporting barrels of Trioxin, when one breaks loose and falls into a river without the driver noticing.

The next morning, pre-teen bullies Johnny and Billy take a reluctant Jesse Wilson to a cemetery mausoleum for an initiation into their club.

Upon opening it, they find a corpse inside and run away screaming as the toxic gas contained within begins to leak out.

When Jesse proposes calling the Army from a phone number listed on the barrel, the bullies trap and leave him in the derelict mausoleum.

Billy and Johnny return to the barrel and open it, releasing the Trioxin gas that begins to permeate the whole cemetery.

While Brenda stays behind in the van, Ed and Joey open the mausoleum to loot the tombs within, allowing Jesse to run home.

Ed, Joey, and Brenda steal Tom's van but are unable to get through the zombie horde, so they barge into Jesse's house.

They manage to break into a doctor's house, where they convince him to let them use his car, and they drive to a hospital emergency room that appears to be deserted.

[6] Like in the previous film, their characters gradually devolve into zombies after being exposed to toxic gas; during the production of Part II, Mathews remarked to Fangoria that, "This time I get to eat the girl's brains".

[9] Return of the Living Dead Part II was released on DVD in 2004, containing a heavily altered soundtrack.

Actress Marsha Dietlein was asked in an August 2012 interview if the film would receive a newer and perhaps "special" DVD release, as was recently done for the first installment in the franchise.