(The last film premiered on TV but was immediately followed by a DVD release featuring five minutes of extra footage in the form of T&A.) All four films, the entire quadrilogy if you will and I know you will, are now available in a box set from Scream Factory, so it seemed like the perfect time to dive right in and see what these sequels had to offer. That awareness was enough of a reason to justify not one, not two, but three direct to DVD sequels of wildly varying quality.
Poison Ivy didn't exactly set the world ablaze back in the early 90s - it cost $3 million and earned even less - but it found a home on VHS and pay cable meaning it remained in the public consciousness long after its theatrical run would have suggested it be forgotten. This is purely fluff cinema designed for film fans drawn to naughty women, worse men, and flora taxonomy.
I didn't intentionally make the title of this week's column sound like a math problem, but if it's any consolation the films we're looking at today require very little in the way of heavy thinking. In this edition, things get dirty with inappropriately seductive women, idiotically horndog men, and venomous plants in name only.) ( Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies.
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