The Blind Dead
05-14-2007, 11:22 AM
Take a stroll down your average video store's horror aisle and you're bound to find the shelves being choked to death by a glut of unneeded, unwanted, direct-to-DVD sequels to movies that never really need any follow-ups. Film studios just seem to get a kick of turning stand alone pictures into ongoing franchises that get exponentially worse with each installment, for the sole purpose of milking the original film's success for every last penny it may be worth. Sometimes, however, one or two of these opportunist sequels turns out to be not entirely bad. Some of them are actual even flat-out good movies. It’s not often but it does happen.
From Dusk Till Dawn is one of those movies that was good on its own and really did not in any way beg to be sequelized. Nevertheless, it has been sequelized and each installment following the first has gotten cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter actually makes a wise choice that From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money failed to make, and that is the choice to be a prequel to the original, rather than a sequel. Number three goes way back in time to the Wild West (or, in this case, Wild Mexico) and attempts to reveal the origins, or at least some of the origins, of the vampire bar that the series has revolved around since its inception. Surprisingly, the results aren't all that bad in this straight-to-DVD cheapie. The budget is visibly...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000818.html)
From Dusk Till Dawn is one of those movies that was good on its own and really did not in any way beg to be sequelized. Nevertheless, it has been sequelized and each installment following the first has gotten cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter actually makes a wise choice that From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money failed to make, and that is the choice to be a prequel to the original, rather than a sequel. Number three goes way back in time to the Wild West (or, in this case, Wild Mexico) and attempts to reveal the origins, or at least some of the origins, of the vampire bar that the series has revolved around since its inception. Surprisingly, the results aren't all that bad in this straight-to-DVD cheapie. The budget is visibly...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000818.html)