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The episode discusses Critters 3, highlighting its low-budget charm and the early performance of Leonardo DiCaprio.

This week, The Good, The Bad, and The Sequel tackles Critters 3 , the third entry in the cult creature-feature franchise — and yes, this is the one with a very young Leonardo DiCaprio . Trading the small-town setting for a rundown apartment building, Critters 3 goes full low-budget sequel mode with greedy landlords, weird tenants, and furry alien monsters causing total chaos. We dig into everything, including: 🐛 Young Leonardo DiCaprio showing early star power in one of his first film roles 🏢 Moving the franchise to an apartment building and how we wish we had more characters for the Critters to eat 😂 The mix of horror, comedy, and pure sequel weirdness that only Critters can deliver 💥 Homemade traps, hallway chases, and low-budget creature carnage 🎭 A cast of bizarre tenants who feel pulled from a sitcom fever dream (two from Seinfeld) 😆 Geoffrey Blake crushing it as "Frank the sleezy super" 🎬 Where Critters 3 fits in the franchise and whether it’s secretly more fun than expected 🔥 Why creature sequels from this era remain endlessly entertaining This is exactly the kind of sequel we love covering — strange, scrappy, ridiculous, and somehow impossible to stop watching. 🎥…

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