10 Ridiculously Awful Sequels To Classic Movies You Didn't Know Existed

Like so many terrible sequels that shouldn't exist, this one has a most interesting and bizarre backstory. The Ride Back was written and co-produced by Phil Pitzer, a lawyer - and definitely not a legitimate writer, producer, or actor - who stumbled upon the rights to Easy Rider and simply couldn't help but squeeze that name until a few dollars popped out of it.

This legally recognized follow-up to Easy Rider does pretty much everything it can to retcon the idealism of the original. Gone is the countercultural ideology and philosophical musings, replaced with a weirdly conservative worldview and exactly zero scenes of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson getting stoned out of their minds around a campfire.

What you have with The Ride Back is essentially a hollow shell made out of vintage leather jackets and overt references to the storyline of the first film.

It's sort of like a fan-made homage, except with the primary intention being to taint the thing you're a fan of while trying to make yourself a Hollywood star, despite laying out a litany of evidence as to why that will never happen.

So... no. This one isn't worth watching.

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