Watched part one. This is pretty well done!

They stuck with not only the original characters but also the same opening setting and scenario, but they twisted it up so that it was different enough. And a new main character is introduced.

The dialogue, of course, can not live up to that of the movie, but that's too high a bar to set. It's decent dialogue on its own though.

Hints of the supernatural are sprinkled in from the outset. A good decision.

And from a writer's perspective, we can appreciate the way the handled flashbacks. Instead of telling the story chronologically, they bring is into the main action, then periodically interrupt it to show flashback which helps build the character. It's well done because it grabs our attention with the plotting(like the screw up at the package store) then sprinkles in the character building so that we not only get a sense of the characters, we begin to want to follow what happens to them.