Return of the Living Dead Part II

Return of the Living Dead Part II

“Just when you thought it was safe to be dead.”

January 15, 1988R1h 29mTMDB ★ 6.4

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.

Genres

Horror, Comedy

Studio

Greenfox

Language

en

Status

Released

Box Office

How Return of the Living Dead Part II performed

Budget

$6.0M

Worldwide Gross

$9.2M

Gross Profit

$3.2M

Return

1.5× budget

Opening Wknd (est.)

$2M

Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$4M$5M

Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~44/56, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (45% of the domestic run, typical for Horror) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.

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