Some movie sequels elevate a franchise… and others make you wonder how they ever got approved.

We put together a roundup of Hollywood’s worst sequels from Jaws 3-D to

Caddyshack II and more.

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Phil Tippett's 'Mad God' is something else: https://imdb.com/title/tt15090124/

Bleak, beautiful, dark, wyrd, creepy, gross, mesmerising.

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I just watched 'Screamers' which is the US cut (with a new intro) of 'L'isola degli uomini pesce', with the English title 'The Island of the Fishmen': https://imdb.com/title/tt0081467/

It was interesting with decent practical effects. The story was, well, ok, but the sets, locations, and cinematography was pretty good. Pretty typical for an Italian-US co-production. The movie reminded me of another Italian-US co-production, 'The Atlantis Interceptors', but was better.

The US version originally didn't have the new intro and was released as 'Something Waits In The Dark' but sold poorly. Prime Video seems to have gotten the name wrong as 'Island of the Fisherman'. (It's always a good sign when movies have multiple names.)

The movie is directed by Sergio Martino who would later release a mash-up of 'The Terminator', 'Blade Runner', and 'Over the Top' called 'Hands of Steel' using the pseudonym Martin Dolman.

Another connection between the two movies was Claudio Cassinelli who was the male lead in this movie and had a smaller role in Hands because he died in a helicopter crash during production.

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'Prison' from 1987 is pretty good and has some well-made practical effects: https://imdb.com/title/tt0095904/

Alas for some reason my DVD version has rather bad audio and no CC or subtitles which really hurts the experience.

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As part of the 'Bloody Weekend' film festival I got to see 'The Toxic Avenger', and it was a blast: https://imdb.com/title/tt1633359/

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Last night I decided to watch a movie and resist the temptation to watch something I had seen before. I had heard the title but nothing else: 'Hairspray' - https://imdb.com/title/tt0095270/

Not far into the opening credits I noticed names that made me realise: This is a John Waters movie!

So this was my first of his movies and now I want to see more of them

It was very different from what I expected from the title, but I really really liked it. It was a bit dream-like and with a colourful character gallery. In some ways it reminded me of some of Tim Burton's movies, e.g. Edward Scissorhands.

Debbie Harry was awesome. Ricki Lake - I only knew her as a talk show host but she was fantastic. Divine was great in both roles.

Highly recommended!

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This weekend both the 12yo and 15yo agreed to watch a movie with me, so I decided to put on 'Borat': https://imdb.com/title/tt0443453/

They both enjoyed it but in very different ways: The 12yo almost threw up from laughing, but the 15yo is not good with cringe comedy and general embarrassment and so they hid their face a lot. (:

I was surprised how well the movie has dated. Of course, some of the contemporary themes like the so called "war on terror" didn't have the same meaning to the kids, but still it was rather good. I was surprised to see how many subtle jokes it had (like the bear supposedly having run away and later a bear head is seen in a refrigerator) that were not drawn attention to at all.

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Last night I watched "The Abyss", and I'm impressed how well this movie has aged: https://imdb.com/title/tt0096754/

Michael Biehn was awesome, as always, and the production design was amazing. Much like in 'Alien', the cast seemed like real people that had known eachother for a long time.

I realised originally I must have seen another cut, because the ending was clearly different with some very memorable scenes missing. I think this was the theatrical cut and originally I saw the extended edition.

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David Lowery on ‘A Ghost Story’: “It was a labor of love in the classic sense of the term”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2025/10/29/a-ghost-story/

I just rewatched 'The hand that rocks the cradle': https://imdb.com/title/tt0104389/

I first watched it around the time when it came out, and I must have watched it about 20 years ago. It's quite a lot better than I remembered it to be, and lots of the plot and the entire ending was completely different.

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