Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2 (2017) poster
2017 · comedy · horror · sci-fi · coming-of-age

Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman1h 25m2017
ElsewhereIMDb5.42k
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • signature
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Following the events of Volume 1, the mutated glee club continue their violent rampage in Tromaville. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants, and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they, and Kevin the Wonder Duck, save Tromaville High School and the world?

Our read · Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2 (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want over-the-top Troma gross-out sci-fi comedy horror with mutants and absurdity.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 3attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegorecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou dislike excessive gore, full frontal nudity or toilet humor.

If Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2 is your film
Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
Lloyd Kaufman Troma Shakespeare gross-out parody
(more romantic literary parody)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Troma absurd gore musical horror comedy
(fast food chicken theme vs high school)
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
original Troma toxic waste school horror comedy
(earlier less meta first entry)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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