# Movies that Have Sequels you didn't know about **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483 "2004-11-07T11:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/21 "2004-11-08T06:30:07Z")
The novel _Love Story_ had a vastly inferior sequel called _Oliver’s Story_. The film _Love Story_ had a vastly inferior sequel called _Oliver’s Story_. The film sequel went even further into the inferior column by dumbing down the already not-so-hot novel, cutting out the best subplots and changing the nature of the central relationship to the point that it’s poignancy and heart were entirely stripped away. Making that movie was crass and criminal. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/22 "2004-11-08T07:06:15Z")
The ones I always get a kick out of are the really bad movies that show up at odd hours on Sci-Fi with titles like “Flying Swamp Snakes 3”\*, and I’ll think to myself “You mean there are two more of these things out there?”. \*Not a real movie title, as far as I know. But maybe it is… ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/23 "2004-11-08T10:19:35Z")
Oh, I just thought of one. _The Omen_ had a second sequel. Most know about _Damien: Omen II_, but there was a third movie called _The Final Conflict_, in which Sam Neill played Damien. No one I’ve talked to has heard of it, I assume because they didn’t use “omen” in the title. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/24 "2004-11-08T12:33:27Z")
There are [eight](http://www.imdb.com/find?q=hellraiser;tt=on;nm=on;mx=20) Hellraiser films. I’ve seen Omen III: The Final Conflict, They called it that in the UK at least - They generally show all 3 films over 3 consecutive weeks on UK TV - i’ve seen them do that at least twice in the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/25 "2004-11-08T13:56:38Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > Oh, I just thought of one. > > _The Omen_ had a second sequel. Most know about _Damien: Omen II_, but there was a third movie called _The Final Conflict_, in which Sam Neill played Damien. No one I’ve talked to has heard of it, I assume because they didn’t use “omen” in the title. Ah, but one that people know even less about is “The Omen IV: The Awakening”, a made for TV movie in 1991. A couple of years ago I got the entire boxed set of “The Omen” movies and watched this movie. Very horrible. I was surprised to learn of all the sequels to “The Amityville Horror”. There’s at least eight, one of them “Amityville: 3D”. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/26 "2004-11-08T15:14:32Z")
> [@Skott](#): > > [The Four Musketeers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073012/) - 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… Yeah, I remember reading that. The producers ran the actors through scenes enough for two movies without telling them that’s what they were doing. The actors had to sue to be paid for the second movie. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/27 "2004-11-09T09:21:19Z")
A word of advice to all in this thread. Stay far away from Hypercube. It’s terrible and ignores everything great about the original. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/28 "2004-11-09T11:42:32Z")
I’ll bet everyone knew of this film, but only today did I find out that \*2001: A Space Odyssey \* has a sequel, called _2010:The Year we Make Contact._ D’oh! Was it big, when released? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/29 "2004-11-09T12:22:35Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > The ones I always get a kick out of are the really bad movies that show up at odd hours on Sci-Fi with titles like “Flying Swamp Snakes 3”\*… I like reading the blurb on the back; “Burke Snerden (_Jungle Attack of the Lemur People_, _Clone Armies of the Thaargons 2 - The Return_) stars as Zip Jiggers, outlaw flying swamp snake hunter, whose life is changed when he meets Reena Beepton (Jennifer Dinkerson - _Evil Zombie Wolf Women of the Endless Night 3_, _Mortal Death of the Soul-Killers of Doom_)…” ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/30 "2004-11-09T13:03:22Z")
> [@Skott](#): > > [The Four Musketeers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073012/) - 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… Actually they just divided the story into two movies rather then make one long mega movie. It’s actually one of the best Muskateer movies ever made with Heston making a decent villain and the fight between Lee and York at the end was fantastic. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/31 "2004-11-09T13:08:34Z")
One of the greatest movies of all time, _Mister Roberts_, had a sequel that wasn’t so great. [Ensign Pulver](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058060/) starring Robert Walker Jr as Jack Lemmons character. Also starring Burl Ives as the captain and Walter Matthau as Doc. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/32 "2004-11-09T14:24:18Z")
> [@Aro](#): > > I’ll bet everyone knew of this film, but only today did I find out that \*2001: A Space Odyssey \* has a sequel, called _2010:The Year we Make Contact._ D’oh! > > Was it big, when released? I’m not sure if it was big, but it wasn’t that bad of a movie. Sure, it was no _2001_, but how could it have been? It was based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke and it was about Heywood Floyd and some Soviet astronauts exploring the abandoned ship near Jupiter. HAL is brought “back to life” by his old programer to see if they can get any information. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/33 "2004-11-09T14:28:46Z")
There was a _Son of Kong_. I’ve never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/34 "2004-11-09T15:03:57Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > **From Dust 'Til Dawn 2** and **3**. _From Dust 'Til Dawn_ ? What, is that a movie about the virtues of using Dawn dishwashing liquid on your old dusty dishes? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/35 "2004-11-09T15:09:27Z")
**American Psycho 2** staring the annoying girl from That 70s Show. There is also a **Cruel Intentions 2**. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/36 "2004-11-09T15:14:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 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). Was Starship Troopers 2 a cutting satire? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/37 "2004-11-09T16:10:20Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > Was Starship Troopers 2 a cutting satire? Only if you are smart enough to understand it. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/38 "2004-11-09T16:15:20Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > **American Psycho 2** staring the annoying girl from That 70s Show. > > There is also a **Cruel Intentions 2**. \*\*Cruel Intentions 2 \*\* is actually the straight to video release of the TV pilot for the televison version of **Cruel Intentions**. FOX never aired it. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/39 "2004-11-09T23:17:20Z")
There’s also the wretchedly awful made-for-TV movie based on the hideously bad best-_non_seller **Scarlett: The Sequel to Margret Mitchell’s _Gone With The Wind_** (Yes, that’s the title.). I never saw the film, or read the book, but I did read exerpts from it. Eye bleedingly bad, doesn’t even begin to describe it. I was working for Waldenbooks when the book was being published, and all the trade publications which had been given advanced copies of the book, didn’t merely pan it, they basically questioned the parentage of anyone involved with the book. As the release date got closer and closer, magazines which devote a large portion of their content to culture, also came out and said that if someone had handed Gutenberg a copy of the book before he’d invented movable type, he’d have killed himself on the spot. Naturally, Wallyworld had to buy a hundred million copies of the thing, and they all just sat around gathering dust. Even when the book was remaindered, people didn’t buy it. Evidently, the made-for-TV movie deal was inked before the book was written, and the entire cast signed up, before anyone had any idea of how bad the book was. I think the ratings for the movie were some of the lowest in TV history. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483/40 "2004-11-10T00:11:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > **American Psycho 2** staring the annoying girl from That 70s Show. The makers of which clearly hadn’t even seen the original film, as the whole movie is based on Bateman not having made up all the events of the first movie. > [@](#): > > There is also a **Cruel Intentions 2**. It’s a prequel, as opposed to Cruel Intentions 3. How is it that Americans seem to miss all these DTV sequels? There’s not a film of the last 20 years in this thread that I didn’t know about, and many of them are prominently displayed in UK rental shops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-sequels-you-didnt-know-about/273483.md?page=3)