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[IronyOwl]

It's been a while, but I seem to recall Warlock 3 feeling like it was made by a crew of college students on a budget of $12. Which I suppose makes sense for the tail end of running a series into the ground.

[McGee]

Meanwhlie we watched all the Warlock movies this weekend.

Warlock 1 is still great. I'm kinda amazed how well it holds up. Great villain, who gets to be a real villain while being both powerful and vulnerable. Interesting story, cool magic, a real witchey Satanic vibe to the whole movie, fun characters and real heart in the writing.

Warlock 2 kinda blows. The villain goes from a villain to a Terminator-esqe monster minion despite being the same character. His personality becomes completely placid. His big line when he kills people is "Thank you very much." The movie is dragged down by shitty leads and a dumb story about druid powers. It plods and plods and plods along with too much exposition and a twist that isn't interesting other than it means the hero and heroine are actually committing incest?

Warlock 3 is just a stupid haunted house movie featuring a pack of unlikeable college kids, a Warlock whose ultimate aim is to summon a demonic girlfriend for themselves and painfully awkward T&A scenes. His magic is stupid, almost everything is about manipulating stupid college students in the lamest ways psychologically and emotionally, and honestly....the worst part is THE ONLY PERSON THAT ACTUALLY DIES BY THE END IS THE WARLOCK.

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After confirming with my colleagues, the druids in Warlock 2 are not brother and sister, and while you only see one of the college kids die in Warlock 3, she does leave the house alone which implies they all actually died.

I remember this series of films. He's gorgeous in his own way. But, like any sequel, it is worse than the original. Seeing such a trend, sometimes the question arises - what would happen next. How much worse could it be

[Kagus]

How much worse could it be

This seems to be the driving force behind the Scorpion King. A series so great, so honorable, so high-profile, that over the course of 5 movies the protagonist inexplicably changes into a completely different person 3 times because they couldn't find anyone willing to stick around for another film.

[NRDL]

WTH, there are FIVE Scorpion King movies?

[Kagus]

WTH, there are FIVE Scorpion King movies?

I'm so sorry you had to find out like this.

The latest one came out in 2018.


There's also a video game.

[scriver]

You forget the three Scorpion King spinoffs, the Mummy I, II, and III

[TamerVirus]

Also a reboot is in development

[King Zultan]

I thought the scorpion king was a spinoff of the mummy, and why make five scorpion king moves the first one wasn't that good.

[scriver]

Well the first two Scorpion King spin-offs (Mummy I and II) did very well so they thought it had a lot of potential. The third wasn't as good but might have still done decently financially so they probably thought they could still do more with the core series.

[Bobbop]

Recommend some horror movie??

[TD1]

Jeepers Creepers is all I can recall watching, 'cause that thing scared the living lights out of me as a kid.

[Loud Whispers]

Jeepers Creepers is all I can recall watching, 'cause that thing scared the living lights out of me as a kid.

Haha yeah that was a fun one to watch as a kid, that bit with skin flappy wing terrified me to no end

[Yoink]

Recommend some horror movie??

Braindead, directed by Peter Jackson.   

Or, I recently watched Blue Sunshine which was pretty sweet. Very unusual, to me at least.   

[Starver]

Braindead, directed by Peter Jackson.

For a moment I read that as Bad Taste, which of course is not (or certainly less of) a Horror genre. Just realised my mental mix-up.

I'm almost certain I've got Braindead on Betamax tape, stashed away gathering dust.  I took a Betamax recorder and assorted tapes (prerecorded, posdibly some pirated, some may have been (ex?)rental copies) off the hands of a friend who was moving in with a girlfriend, to complete the classic trifecta of formats. (I had inherited a VHS machine already, having started off with the much superior Video2000 one.) It certainly hasn't been watched since the late '90s. I don't supposed Peter Jackson did anything bigger since then, right? 


(Horror's not really my bag, without doing double-duty with comedy, sci-fi or something else that grabs me as a genre. I think the last thing I saw just on the promise of being Horror was Wishmaster, which - ironically - I remember quite distinctly as being laughable. Not my recomendation, but other than that it's got to be the usual '80s era 'classics' or the earlier Scary Movies set if you don't mind the parody part.)

[IronyOwl]

Recommend some horror movie??

What are you into?

Last Days on Mars (people die on Mars) and Dog Soldiers (squad movie about werewolves) spring to mind as high-quality options, but Horror is a vast and silly genre.