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Behind every great book adaptation is a forgettable first try.

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For the 100th Doomsday Reels column, we look at the grimmest screwball comedy in the history of film.

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Is it possible to like a movie and find it super dull at the same time?

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A dystopian movie that feels a bit too close to home.

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It's 'Lars and the Real Girl' for the post-apocalyptic era.

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"If I die, I'm gonna die historic on the island of Sodor!"

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'Highlander: The Source' is a stern reminder that movies can be far worse than 'Highlander 2"

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Whether it comes from outer space or the distant past, no amount of editing can fix 'Highlander 2.'

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Protracted Silence: The Movie

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Roger Corman's 'Death Race 2000' finally gets the follow-up it deserves.

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Abandon all thought, ye who enter here.

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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love This Ridiculous Nonsense

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The third Resident Evil movie is accidentally decent.

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The second Resident Evil movie is far more faithful to the games on which it was based but twice as bad.

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This month we're going to look back on a terrible series of movies that just refused to stop being made.

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Celebrate a belated Christmas with some adorable children who want to murder everyone.

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Dreamworks made an alien invasion comedy that's too cutesy for its own good, but it's not without merit.

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A satire about pollution, corporate greed, consumerism, and the implied near-extinction of the human race. You know... for kids!

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If madness had a soundtrack...

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"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" closes out another year of horrors by reminding us that the saw is family.

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Jaden Smith conquers shyness with flyness in M. Night Shyamalan's "After Earth".

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Herbert West and Dan Cain are back to kill death in "Bride of Re-Animator".

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Matt Cordell returns, but his nose doesn't in "Maniac Cop 2"

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"Night of the Demons 2" brings a very '80s movie franchise into the '90s, with mixed results.

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"Hobgoblins 2" is a remake of a good-bad movie that's just bad.

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"Return of the Living Dead Part 2" isn't as bad as you remember.

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"Psycho 2" pays tribute to its predecessor rather than attempt to upstage it.

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"Scanners 2: The New Order" is more or less the same as the first one.

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"House 2: The Second Story" is a screwball comedy barely masquerading as a horror movie.

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'Waxwork 2: Lost in Time' is a delightfully dumb movie worth watching again and again.

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'Puppet Master 2' delivers on more puppet action but is like a worse version of the original.

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'Warlock: Armageddon' shares little more than a title and a villain with its predecessor, but it is bananas.

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'Wishmaster 2' works mostly just because of the actor playing the titular character.

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Every sequel to 'The Howling' is awful, but 'The Howling 2: Your Sister's a Werewolf' is the absolute worst by far.

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Do androids dream of fresh princes?

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'Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh' both succeeds and fails by doing its own thing.

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'Ben' a spin-off film was ill-advised/ a sequel where the bad guy wins is so unwise/ you should have just let it go/ but I want you to know/though it may make you sad/ your movie's really bad. (Y...

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'The Dentist 2' is here to ride a bicycle made of nightmares into your soul.

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'Pet Sematary 2' reminds us that sometimes, just one movie is bettah.

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Is Charlie Brewster cool enough to make 'Fright Night Part 2' worthwhile?

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