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

There Are Probably Better Ways to Pay Tribute to the Late Treat Williams Than by Revisiting His Performance in The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option But That's What We're Going With

For Direct-to-Video Sequel month I watched and wrote about an enjoyably stupid anti-racism action movie involving Treat Williams beating up the members of a Neo-Nazi military school cult called The Werewolf Company, 2001’s The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Direct to Video SequelsNathan RabinJune 15, 2023Treat Williams, Bill Nunn, Angie Everhart, Direct to video sequel month, Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist, racism

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #184 Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)

It’s Passenger 57 but with Marilyn Manson knockoffs in the wonderfully stupid direct-to-video sequel Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, a Hot Topic Die Hard in the air with Rutger Hauer as a Satan-worshipping suicidal Vietnam veteran pilot with a weakness for classical music.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Direct to Video SequelsNathan RabinMarch 17, 2021Rutger Hauer, Joe Mantegna, Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar, Turbulence, Marilyn Manson, rock and roll, disaster movie, Passenger 57, Film

Control Nathan Rabin #183 From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)

The great Michael Parks is a vampire-battling Ambrose Bierce in the nifty, overachieving second direct to video sequel to From Dusk Til Dawn, 1999’s From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Direct to Video SequelsNathan RabinMarch 16, 2021Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Parks, Danny Trejo, horror, westerns, Quentin Tarantino

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #180 MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)

stupid fucking movie is mostly about hockey.

Direct to Video Sequels, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Monkey MarchNathan RabinMarch 8, 2021Direct to video sequel month, Richard Karn, Air Bud, animal athletes, Monkeypiece Theater

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #179 Troll 2 (1990)

For a very special day (the end of the Joy of Trash Kickstarter) I wrote about a movie that embodies the joy of trash: the absolutely wonderful, utterly insane 1990 fever dream Troll 2.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Direct to Video SequelsNathan RabinMarch 4, 2021Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, bad movie culture, The Joy of Trash, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Manos: The Hands of Fate

Squeakquels: Tales from the Hood 3 (2020)

Direct to video sequel month continues with a fond look at Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott’s over-achieving second sequel to the cult classic Tales from the Hood featuring masterful performances from Tony Todd and Lynn Whitfield.

Direct to Video Sequels, Squeakquels!, Spookthology of TerrorNathan RabinMarch 3, 2021Spike Lee, Rusty Cundieff, horror antholoy, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Hood, Tony Todd, Lynn Whitfield, Shout Factory

Squeakquels!: Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

Direct to Video sequel month kicks off with a look at the seventh Tremors movie, which finds Napoleon Dynamite and Alex P. Keaton’s hippie dad squaring off against super-intelligent Graboids on a private island.

Squeakquels!, Direct to Video SequelsNathan RabinMarch 2, 2021Jon Heder, Michael Gross, Direct to viddeo, sequel, monster movie, nostalgia