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Brad Dourif Month Begins a Day Early With The Exorcist III, My Shudder Pick on the Month

Brad Dourif month begins a day earlier with a fond look at his legendary performance as the Gemini Killer in William Peter Blatty’s wonderfully wacky 1990 cult classic The Exorcist III.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Brad Dourif MonthNathan RabinDecember 31, 2024George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, sequel, Film, possession, Fabio, Patrick Ewing

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

Creep 2 Takes the Micro-Franchise In a Fascinatingly Satirical, Meta Direction

The sequel to Creep took the series in a darkly comic, self-referential and very fun direction.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 9, 2024Mark Duplass, sequel, found footage, horror, Blumhouse

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

The 2005 Stinker Son of the Mask is an Unholy Abomination

They made a sequel to The Mask without Jim Carrey. It did not go well.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJune 21, 2024Alan Cumming, Jamie Kennedy, Ji, Jim Carrey, sequel

The Notorious Highlander 2: The Renegade Version Offers a, Shall We Say, Unique Look at Life in the Year 2024

One of you kind weirdoes paid me to re-experience 1991’s Highlander 2: Renegade Version, one of the most famously terrible movies ever made, and for that I thank you.

Best of 2023: No Sequel Has Been More Deliriously Off-Brand than the Pro-War, Pro-Soldier Sequel to Easy Rider, Easy Rider: The Ride Back

An Ohio lawyer sued to get the rights to co-write and starred in a “sequel” to Easy Rider. Tragically and hilariously, he succeeded.

Best of 2023: In 2022's Surreally Misconceived Halloween Ends Michael Myers Makes a New Halloween Friend in Corey, the Worst Character in the History of Film

It’s all about Corey, baby, in the spectacularly misconceived 2022 stinker Halloween Ends.

My World Of Flops, Great Catch UpNathan RabinDecember 27, 2023Jamie Lee Curtis, Corey, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, horror, sequel

Holy Crap Does Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Ever Suck

People made fun of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps for having a dumb subtitle but they should mock it for being laughably terrible.

There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Honor the Late Richard Roundtree Than By Re-Running This Piece on the Godawful Shaft Reboot But It's the One We're Going With

Nearly two decades after the release of 2000’s Shaft they decided to make a sequel re-imagining the formerly coolest motherfucker on the planet as your cranky boomer uncle. The film, and the idea, were both #Quitepoor

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinOctober 25, 2023Samuel L. Jackson, sequel, blaxploitation, Shaft, Richar Roundtree