Brad Dourif — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Spectacularly Silly 1990 Slasher Sequel Child's Play 2

I finally got around to watching Child’s Play 2, which is mesmerizingly stupid and a little bit silly.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 6, 2024Brad Dourif, Gerrit Graham, Jenny Agutter, sequel, Don Mancini, Child's Play, Chucky, Film

Ripley Has Mad Basketball Skills in the Loony 1997 Flop Alien: Resurrection But the Movie is Anything but a Slam Dunk

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2024Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Alien, Film, Sequel, Michael Wincott, Science Fiction, action

The Great Catch-Up Returns with a Fond Look at the Nifty 2017 Horror Sequel Cult of Chucky

In the first Great Catch-Up piece in a very long time I write admiringly of 2017’s overachieving The Cult of Chucky.

Great Catch UpNathan RabinAugust 12, 2024Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, sequel, Film

Brad Dourif, Jessica Walter and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Brad Dourif was very nearly not the voice of Chucky and other near misses.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinDecember 7, 2023Brad Dourif, Child's Play, Chucky, Samantha Morton, Her, Hot to Trot, Best Defense

The Famously Ridiculous 1994 Erotic Psycho-Thriller Color of Night is Sublimely Silly

One of you kind souls paid me to re-experience the exquisite absurdity of Richard Rush’s gloriously kooky 1994 erotic thriller Color of Night.

The Child's Play TV Adaptation Chucky is Freakishly, Almost Disconcertingly Good

The riveting, shockingly sensitive TV adaptation Chucky illustrates what makes the Child’s Play franchise so unexpected and essential.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinOctober 23, 2022Brad Dourif, horror, horror comedy, Jennifer Tilly, John Waters

2004's Seed of Chucky Illustrates What Makes the Child's Play Franchise So Wild and Relevant

By the fifth film in the original series, the Child’s Play franchise had gotten ridiculously silly in a most delightful, meta kind of way.

Sub-CultNathan RabinOctober 23, 2022Brad Dourif, horror, sequel, Scream, Jennifer Tilly

Holy Shit Is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Ever Crazy, Great

It doesn’t get much better, or much crazier, than Werner Herzog’s 2009 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #245 Dune (1984)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with a fond look back at David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune, which I deemed a Fiasco when I covered it for My World of Flops but that I now adore.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #209: Shadow Hours (2000)

My patron-funded jaunt through the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with a seedy morality tale in which Peter Weller plays the devil and Balthazar Getty his protege in all things wicked.