Here in China, I can buy Starship Troopers 2, Skulls 2 and 3, Species 3, Wild Things 2, and many other movies I had no idea had sequels(even direct-to video).
I remember hearing that A Christmas Story has sequels and is itself a sequel.
What other movies do you know about that have sequels most people don’t know about?
There are a lot of direct-to-video sequels with few or no participants from the original movie, like Splash 2, Return to Oz and Addams Family Reunion. There are also cheap-o sequels that the public is dimly aware of, like those for Jaws and Children of the Corn.
There are also pastiches of old movies that are sequels only in the broadest sense, like Clarence and The Black Bird (jokey followups to It’s a Wondrful Life and The Maltese Falcon, respectively).
I was amazed to find out there was a National Lampoon Christmas Vacation II. Since it didn’t have Chevy Chase, I decided it wasn’t worth renting…
I would have thought that a selling point.
As for A Christmas Story there were various other films (usually made for TV) that were based on Jean Shepherd stories. The Great American Fourth of JUly and Other Stories actually came out before the move. They showed the same family, though the actors didn’t seem to repeat roles.
From Dust 'Til Dawn 2 and 3. The first movie was only half-watchable in and of itself (but O, what a first half!)… I can’t even begin to ponder what horrors await lurking in the bowels of the second two monstrosities.
Tremors had a couple of sequels, though I get the impression that Burt was the star of the second two (they also had a TV series, and again, Burt was the honcho… I don’t know if it’s still on).
Weren’t there, like, five Neverending Story movies? The first two were in theatres, and I know there was at least a third.
Most sequels like that are released direct to video/cable in the US. URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110168/]Here is the “A Christmas Story” sequel to which I think you are referring .
“Tremors” surprised me, too, with several sequels. A check at IMDB showed they’re not bad, although I love the first one.
“The Exorcist” had no less than three sequels, each one dreadful. I knew of the first one, but the other two sank without a trace.
The “Hypercube” sequel to Cube. I only found out about that years later, and I still thought to myself, “Why on earth would you make a sequel to Cube?”
Shock Treatment, the sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Bring it on Again. I can’t bring myself to attempt it. At least not sober.
The Four Musketeers - A friend of mine was completely surprised to find out that the movie existed, despite having been a total fan of the original. Apparently, though, even the actors in the film were surprised they were in a sequel…
AWESOME! Hypercube, meet Netflix queue!
ZJ
Strictly speaking, those aren’t sequels. They are just adaptations of other stories by Shepherd. And they weren’t released direct to cable; they were produced as television shows for broadcast TV networks (like PBS, which used to feather Shepherd himself in his own show). At best, you could consider them part of a series, but that’s a bit misleading – it was a book series, not a movie series.
Brace yourself: They made another one.
And there’s also a prequel. I wouldn’t be so hard on the third sequel, it’s directed by the author of the novel the first film was based on, and features an excellent performance by Brad Dourif.
God, Exorcist II was an abomination. I liked the third one, though. I thought it was a pretty good adaptaion of Blatty’s novel Legion (the “real” sequel to The Exorcist), Blatty directed it, and I wouldn’t say it sank without a trace. Every single time someone starts a thread about “The Most Shocking Scenes in Horror Movies” or “Scenes That Made You Jump” or something like that, there are a couple of bits in The Exorcist III that get mentioned.
And as for the Cube sequels, I’ve only seen the first one, myself, but I’ve heard that the sequels are pretty good, too.
Warlock was trashy fun. Warlock: the Armageddon? Not so much.
Apparently there’s also a Warlock III. I believe I’ll pass.
I did a thread on this a couple of years ago. You people are looking at too many titles with Roman Numerals. The real trick is finding movies without them:
The Invisible Boy is a sequel to Forbidden Planet (!!!)It even stars Robby the Robot, in only his second appearance.
In the Heat of the Night had two sequels, both starring Sidney Poitier (but no Rod Steiger) – They Call Me Mister Tibbs! and The Organization.
Hawaii, the adaptation of James Michener’s epic, was followed by the less well-known The Hawaiians, which starred Charlton Heston, and used other parts of the novel. In a similar vein, Exodus was followed by Ari.
It didn’t used to be common knowldge, but Silence of the Lambs was the film of the novel that was the sequel to the novel “Red Dragon”, that the earlier film Manhunter was based on. But Hannibal Lecter got a lot of publicity, and they remade Manhunter as Red Dragon. Which, if any, as the sequel to which? I don’t know, but I’ll take Manhunter over ed Dragon nyday.
I was very surprised to find out that The Outlaw Josey Wales had a very cheap, foreign-made sequel obviously not starring Clint Eastwood.
Puppet Master. I vaguely remember the original. It was not until I went to a video store did I find that four sequels had been made.