Welcome to Unwatchable Week! Every day this week will feature a new installment of the most ill-advised exercise ever undertaken by a member of the reviewing press, as your faithful movie janitor (that would be me) continues his mind-numbing quest to watch every film on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. We've finally cracked the top 50, so there's no point stopping now.

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace is, as you may have deduced, the sequel to The Lawnmower Man, which was once known as Stephen King's The Lawmower Man until the master of horror sued New Line Pictures to have his name removed from the credits. When you consider some of the movies Stephen King has seen fit to leave his name on, this would seem to be quite an indictment. Actually, King's problem with the movie is that it has absolutely nothing to do with his short story "The Lawnmower Man." As I recall, King's Lawnmower Man was a big fat naked guy who ate grass and any woodchucks that might be hiding in said grass, while New Line's Lawnmower Man was Jeff Fahey in a funny wig.

The 1996 sequel Lawnmower Man 2 offers neither of these options.

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