Watched this one again today for some quasi-King points. I've always liked the movie, and I love that it has the same vibe/setting/director as the first. What I noticed this time is how often it references the original.

First off, it's set in the same city. There's a few times throughout where they mention the Creed family, and what happened to them. There's also a doctor that was familiar with the strange case of Church the cat, and that guy was a kook who could have probably had his own spin-off as a crazed taxidermist who reminisces of that Indian burial ground.

Furlong and company are in the pet sematary to relay the story of Louis Creed. The bully claims that Elle Creed went nuts and dug up corpses and licked their faces and whatnot, but for the director's sake, I think he elaborated. The bully said that Gage had maggots in his eyes when Louis dug him up, but he clearly didn't. I'm pretty sure Mary Lambert (director) said that if she did a part 3, it would be Elle Creed's story. Too bad that shitty remake came out and laid that idea to rest, because whatever she came up with would have been better than the remake.



But PS2 is a pretty fun movie. Clearly a step down from the original, a bit cheesy at times, but it has some good gore, and Clancy Brown steals the whole show as the asshole sheriff Gus. This is easily my favorite of his performances, and the dude was Mister Krabs. "I like money!"

This was back at the height of Eddie Furlong's career. Straight off of T2, he makes this one. Kind of a horror fan in iit, as his mother was a horror actress, and he dressed as Jason for Halloween during that one scene. He'd later go on to play a more hardcore horror fan in "Brainscan", which I was also kind of obsessed with as a kid, becaused I loved all three of these movies as a youth.