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The Pink Panther. Some really great underrated gems, some unadulterated crap. And a LOT of weird spin offs and remakes. Including the one the made out of outtakes and cut scenes of Peter Sellers, two years after he died.

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Something a little different - all 7 Bring It On movies.

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I second Tremors and Hellraiser, and humbly submit: Highlander

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All the Batmans?

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Tremors, maybe? I've always kind of assumed every one past the first was skippable, but maybe I'm wrong?

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The first three DTV sequels are actually quite good and entertaining. When they brought it back much later, the original creative team was no longer making them and it shows.

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I wouldn’t go with Sharknado. The defining feature of that series is how lazy it is. It’s just frustrating. Lots of great candidates: Tremors, Leprechaun, The Prophecy are all fun choices.

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Final Destination!

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You'll think I hate you but I'd LOVE for you to review every Hellraiser movie! There's, uh, 11 of them and every one after number 4 is varying degrees of miserable. Enjoy!!

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I'm going to cast a (possibly lonely) vote for the Phantasm series, if only because every glimpse I've had of said movies had made me wonder what the hell I was watching, in a mostly good way.

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All the wretched Dr Seuss adaptations!

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Evil Dead would be great. The movies run the gamut in terms of tone and there is also Ash versus the Evil Dead of you want to keep going.

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Low-brow is debatable, but I’d love to see you chronicle the Muppet movies.

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How about Universal Soldier? I hear it ends strong.

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Yeah, I'm not sure what he's looking for, but the Universal Soldier series has a very rewarding end. Those last two are dynamite.

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The Howling series.

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Saw. A slam-bang start, a lot of mixed results in between with some garbage thrown in (literally in the Chris Rock installment), and a (currently) strong finish. Full disclosure, I haven't watched the last one, but I've heard it's actually good.

Although of all the suggestions before me (a lot of good ones), I was most intrigued by The Pink Panther series recommendation. The quality really was all over the place and thanks to HBO we all watched them.

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Puppet master or substitute

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