Posts Tagged ‘sequel-to-cult-favorite’

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Goodman, John | Morton, Joe | Peeples, Nia | Freeman, Kathleen | Bonifant, J. Evan | Oz, Frank | Lawrence, Steve | Hammond, Darrell | Erykah Badu | Levine, Walter | Davis, Tom | Johnson, Shann | King, B.B. | Slade, Gloria
Directors: Landis, John
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Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a battle of the bands against the Louisiana Gators led by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, and others.

Crow: Wicked Prayer, The (2005)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Okumoto, Yuji | Chong, Marcus | Ortiz, Tito | Reid, Tara | Boreanaz, David | Salgado, Rosemberg | Furlong, Edward | Chriqui, Emmanuelle | Trejo, Danny | Baez, Dave | Lea, David | Cumba, Richard
Directors: Mungia, Lance
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Set in the Southwest, “Prayer” tells the story of ex-con Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Chriqui), who are murdered by Luc Crash (Boreanaz) and his satanic gang Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as part of a ritual for Crash to become an immortal demon.

Creepshow III (2006)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pettee, Stephanie | Abramsohn, Roy | Schramm, Susan | Gibson, Bunny | Fromm, Matt | Kirkland, Nathan | Pinkard, Selma | Knox, Kalena | Jacobs, Brian | Millán, Leonardo | Avila, Magi | Lugo, Margarita | Gonzales, Robert | Burzynski, Simon | Rank, Rami
Directors: Clavell, Ana
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Blanchett, Cate | Allen, Karen | LaBeouf, Shia | Winstone, Ray | Hurt, John | Broadbent, Jim | Jijikine, Igor | Diatchenko, Dimitri | Volokh, Ilia | Todorov, Emmanuel | Lychnikoff, Pavel | Divoff, Andrew | Manzyuk, Venya | Dale, Alan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley’s code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she’ll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones’s past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural.

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Grant, Lee | Lew Eуres | Sylvia Sidney | Jonathan Scott-Taylor | Foxworth, Robert
Directors: Don Taylor
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Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien’s father (Ambassador Thorn) started?

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Lithgow, John | Mirren, Helen | Balaban, Bob | Dullea, Keir | Rain, Douglas | Osborne, Madolyn Smith | Elcar, Dana | Jaffe, Taliesin | McEachin, James | Deschanel, Mary Jo | Baskin, Elya | Kramarov, Saveli | Rudnik, Oleg | Shneider, Natasha
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

Blade II (2002)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Kristofferson, Kris | Perlman, Ron | Varela, Leonor | Reedus, Norman | Kretschmann, Thomas | Goss, Luke | Schulze, Matt | John-Jules, Danny | Yen, Donnie | Roden, Karel | Kile, Marit Velle | Curran, Tony | Crawford, Daz | Segura, Santiago
Directors: Toro, Guillermo del
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A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community. The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Now their quickly expanding population threatens the existence of vampires, and soon there won’t be enough humans in the world to satisfy their bloodlust. Blade, Whistler (Yes, he’s back) and an armory expert named Scud are curiously summoned by the Shadow Council. The council reluctantly admits that they are in a dire situation and they require Blade’s assistance. Blade then tenuously enters into an alliance with The Bloodpack, an elite team of vampires trained in all modes of combat to defeat the Reaper threat. Blade’s team and the Bloodpack are the only line of defense which can prevent the Reaper population from wiping out the vampire and human populations.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davidtz, Embeth | Gilbert, Marcus | Abercrombie, Ian | Grove, Richard | Quill, Timothy Patrick | Reid, Michael Earl | Fonda, Bridget | Tallman, Patricia | Raimi, Ted | Anderson, Deke | Thomas, Bruce | Shearer, Sara | Gordon, Shiva | Bryan, Billy
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Fly II, The (1989)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Stoltz, Eric | Zuniga, Daphne | Richardson, Lee | Getz, John | Turner, Frank C. | Lee, Ann Marie | Chalk, Gary | Henderson, Saffron | Cross, Harley | Moore, Matthew | Roy, Rob | Rhodes, Andrew | Bermel, Pat | Taylor, William S. | Wasserman, Jerry
Directors: Walas, Chris
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Seth Brundle was a research scientist whose genes were fused with a housefly in a matter transmission experiment and he transformed into the terrifying mutant creature “Brundlefly” and the journalist who he fell in love with, Vernoica Quaife killed him by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. Veronica has died giving birth to Seth’s son Martin. Martin is raised by Seth’s evil employer Anton Bartok who requires Martin’s help to solve the problems of the Telepods, believing the Telepods are the key for worldwide domination. Growing at a accelerated rate and inheriting his father’s mutated genes, Martin finds himself suffering his father’s fate as he himself transforming into a even more fierce and terrifying “Brundlefly”. Befriend by beautiful computer specialist Beth Logan, Martin sets out a way to cure himself, as the answer lies within the Telepod which is his only chance of saving himself from a terrible death.

Scream 3 (2000)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Dempsey, Patrick | Posey, Parker | Foley, Scott | Richmond, Deon | Mortimer, Emily | Henriksen, Lance | McCarthy, Jenny | Keeslar, Matt | Warburton, Patrick | Schreiber, Liev | Rutherford, Kelly | Kennedy, Jamie
Directors: Craven, Wes
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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy…anything can happen.