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The Shudder Pick of the Month is the Wonderfully Insane Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Michael Myers returns (again) in a wonderfully terrible stinker with a crazed performance by Donald Pleasance as an utterly unhinged Dr. Loomis.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 3, 2025Halloween, Film, horror, sequel, Danielle Harris, camp

Our Tribute to Kennedy Center Honors Recipients Continues With This Rerun of 1985's Iconic Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985’s Rambo: First Blood Part II desecrates everything that made First Blood so powerful. That’s probably why it was a massive blockbuster.

Brad Dourif Month Continues With a Loving Look Back at 2004's Seed of Chucky

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 RabinJanuary 10, 2025Brad Dourif, horror, sequel, Scream, Jennifer Tilly

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.