Sadly, though, it was written by David S. Ward, who wrote the original.
Ward went on to a zigzagging career, with some really good and some really bad flicks (King Ralph), but the original Sting was definitely a high point.
I submit ***My Summer Story***, the 1994 follow-up to 1983’s A Christmas Story, with none of the original cast and about one-third the charm. Oddly, this appears to have been released under two different titles, the other being “It Runs In The Family.”
If made-for-TV movies count (and keeping with the holiday theme), there’s ***Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure***, a sequel to a sequel, sort of, which aired 14 years after Christmas Vacation was released. It was a horrible train wreck, from which I was unable to look away. About the only noteworthy thing I can say about it is that Dana Barron reprised her role as Audrey Griswold, becoming the only actor to play a Griswold offspring more than once.
House, a horror/comedy starring William Katt, George Wendt, and Richard Moll.
House II: The Second Story, starring Arye Gross. More comedy than horror. No real connection with the first movie, except that they both take place in magical houses where the kitchen door does not always lead to the kitchen. One awesome scene with John Ratzenberger as Bill the Electrician, the guy every D&D player wants to be when he grows up.
House III, released in the U.S. under the title The Horror Show, starring Lance Henrickson and Brion James. More horror than comedy. No real connection to either of the first two.
House IV: The Repossession, starring William Katt. This one is actually a sequel to the first film.
The Wild Geese, starring Richard Burton and Richard Harris, based on Daniel Carney’s novel The Thin White Line.
The Wild Geese II, starring Scott Glenn, based on Daniel Carney’s novel The Square Circle. Richard Burton died before filming began, and Edward Fox plays the character’s brother. I don’t know if the character even appears in the novel.
Code Name: Wild Geese, starring Lewis Collins and Lee Van Cleef, a low-budget Italian knock-off.
I think “Force 10 From Navarone” (sequel to “The Guns of Navarone”) would qualify.
Some 17 years after the original, classic “Guns”, they decided to make this sequel with none of the stars from the original, but using the 2 main characters.
But…the movie did have 1) “Han Solo”, 2) “Apollo Creed”, 3) “Capt. Quint”, and 4) “Mrs. Ringo Starr” and some others (“Jaws” among them).
It didn’t suck, but it was basically the same story as the original Chinatown up to the incest plot (and how Gittes doesn’t recognize “Kitty” as Katherine Mulwray is never explained) that lacks the gut-stabbing nihilism of the original.
F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion was a sequel to the moderately well-received F/X: Murder by Illusion which basically tanked despite that it was arguably a better produced film that certainly had a higher production budget. Neither film is great cinema but they’re reasonably entertaining and clever (the robot clown fight sequence in the sequel is a lot of fun), and Bryan Brown should have become a bigger actor than he ended up being, especially given that he acted circles around Tom Cruise in the hilariously terrible Cocktail.
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There’s death sequence compilations from all the films up on YouTube. That’s really all you want to see from the movies anyway.
[/QUOTE]I will check this out. These movies always kinda freaked me out - more the premise vs. the blood and gore.
Both iterations of The Fly spawned forgotten sequels. The original Vincent Price version gave us Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly. The Cronenberg remake begat The Fly II.
The Creature From the Black Lagoon managed to have 2 sequels. I can remember Revenge of the Creature occasionally popping up on KTLA’s Saturday afternoon “Wide Scream Theater”, but to this day have still never seen The Creature Walks Among Us
And we can’t forget Larry “J.R.” Hagman’s sole feature film directorial effort Beware! The Blob, the 14-years-later sequel to The Blob.
I always thought the sequel was “Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss”.
None of the original cast either, but I recall it being at least funny in parts.
Wow. Never heard of this one. Jean Shephard just kept on going to that well, I guess.
You’re lucky.
Basket Case (1982)
Basket Case II (1990)
Basket Case III (1991)
High Noon (1952)
High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again (1966 TV movie)
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980 TV movie)
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It’s Alive* (1974)
It Lives Again (1978)
It’s Alive 3: Island of the Alive (1987)
Repo Man (1984)
Repo Chick (2009)
Re-Animator (1985)
Bride of Re-Animator (1987)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Shaft (1971)
Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Shaft (1973) (TV Series)
Shaft (2000)
Shaft (2019)
Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
The Bridge in the Jungle (1970) - Not strictly speaking a sequel, but close enough…
Yes, Samantha Darko is played by Daveigh Chase in both Donnie Darko and S. Darko.
Shepherd wrote at least three books worth of short stories, many of which centered on the “Christmas Story” family; Years later, selections from those stories were combined into the movie so many people treasure.
For me, the print stories are far superior, probably because by the time the beloved film was made, I’d already read and loved the stories several times.
The original was an adaptation, so I’m not sure how much we can attribute solely to Don Bluth.
Not only that, but he had another sister played by his real life sister Maggie. Is the OP sure they saw either film? I know I’m in the minority, but I actually enjoyed S Darko, despite not being from the original creator.
The obscure but unintentionally hilarious film D-War is somehow getting a sequel.
Oh My God that movie sucked. Even with, and especially because of Candy Clark.
War Games, the one with the tic-tac-toe computer? It has a sequel called War Games: The Dead Code.
There is also this sequel.
Yeah, I know the movie is an adaption of Robert C. O’Brien’s novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It was my favorite book when I was a kid in the 80s and I read it multiple times. Come to thick of it the book itself has two sequels written by Robert C. O’Brien’s daughter, Jane Leslie Conly, which many people may not be aware of:
Racso and the Rats of NIMH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racso_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH
R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-T,_Margaret,_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH
30 Days of Night is a corker of a horror film. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days is really lame.