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Slim by blasting off his head with a rifle. Gramps, who has been mortally wounded, begins to pass away. Gramps says goodbye to Jesse and tells him he is so happy to have met his great-great-grandson. Gramps then gives a final warning about the power of the skull, encouraging Jesse to get what he wants from the enchanted object and then get rid of it. As Gramps passes, Jesse embraces him.
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doesn't quite have anything similar to the strong performance of the original's Bill Katt anchoring the picture, but it still has plenty to make it a worthwhile follow-up that's definitely worth watching.". Creature Feature gave the movie two of five stars, finding it inferior to the first movie.
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Eventually, a zombified Slim Reeser makes his appearance. Still after the skull, Slim shoots Gramps who then gives Jesse his guns and reveals that it was Slim who shot and killed Jesse's parents when he was a baby. Jesse jumps through a window into the Old West, and eventually succeeds in killing
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During an impromptu Halloween party thrown by Charlie, Gramps makes an appearance (though he is overlooked as it is a costume party), Kate leaves Jesse (taking Lana with her) after he is seen with an old girlfriend by her smarmy boss John Statman, and Jesse and Charlie pick up two new pets in the
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Reasoning that the skull must be buried with him, Jesse and Charlie decide to dig up Jesse's great-great-grandfather in the hopes of procuring the skull. They unearth the casket only to be attacked by the corpse, who then shows himself to be friendly when Jesse reveals his identity as the senior
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from his tool case and leads the boys through "one of those time-portal things...you see these all the time in these old houses." In the mystic past, the three fight off a group of Aztec warriors and rescue an Aztec virgin who was about to be sacrificed.
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The film ends with the revelation that Jesse used the skull to travel back into the Old West, where he, Charlie and the rest of their friends drive off in a wagon on a new adventure, leaving the crystal skull behind, marking Gramps' new grave.
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Jesse has returned to the old family mansion after his parents were murdered when he was a baby. While going through old things in the basement, Jesse finds a picture of his great-great-grandfather (and namesake) in front of an
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with sapphires in the eyes. In the background is a man Jesse learns is Slim Reeser, a former partner of his great-great-grandfather turned bitter enemy after a disagreement over who would get to keep the skull.
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Jesse's great-great-grandson. Jesse and Charlie take the cowboy zombie, nicknamed "Gramps", back to the house, where he is horrified to learn that the skull has not rejuvenated his body as he had hoped.
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involves a storyline centered around a new mansion with a supernatural connection. The tone is highlighted with a greater focus on comedy, with a tone even lighter than the original.
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in 1069 theaters. It opened in ninth place with an opening weekend tally of $ 2,573,934. It ended its U.S. theatrical run with a total of $ 7,800,000.
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and his outlaw life. Gramps explains that the house was built using stones from the Aztec temple, and that its rooms act as a hidden doorway across
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was released on August 28, 1987, grossing $ 10 million worldwide against a $ 3 million budget and received negative reviews from critics.
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Bill Towner, an electrician and "part-time adventurer", arrives to inspect the house's old wiring. While seemingly a buffoon, he pulls a
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had an original release date of July 10, but was pushed back and later released in the United States on August 28, 1987 by
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owned by a recent ancestor of one of them. They decide to unbury the ancestor, in order to see if the skull was among his
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Gramps and Charlie go out drinking and driving, and later the boys listen for hours to Gramps' stories of the
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the film has an approval rating of 9% based on reviews from 11 critics.
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settle in an old family mansion, and learn of the existence of a
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as the voices of Slim Reeser, Baby Pterodactyl and Cater Puppy
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and a caterpillar-dog that's dubbed a Cater-Puppy, after a
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Index

House 2
House-2

Ethan Wiley
Fred Dekker
Sean S. Cunningham
Arye Gross
Jonathan Stark
Royal Dano
Lar Park Lincoln
John Ratzenberger
Mac Ahlberg
Harry Manfredini
New World Pictures
Sean S. Cunningham Films
comedy horror
Ethan Wiley
Fred Dekker
House film series
the first movie
Yuppies
crystal skull
grave goods
zombie
time portals
historical eras
time travel
Jurassic
Aztec Empire
American Old West

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