S/D: Horror film sequels

What are your favorites? What are the worst? Sequels in general are usually shit but with a genre founded so much upon individual scenes/moments, sequels almost seem like an opportunity to improve.

S: Hellraiser II, Nightmare on Elm St. 3, New Nightmare, Return of the Living Dead
D: Nightmare on Elm St. 6: Freddy's Dead, Return of the Living Dead 3 (ugh)

Land of the Dead is a personal favorite.

Sequels in general are usually shit but with a genre founded so much upon individual scenes/moments, sequels almost seem like an opportunity to improve.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1:09 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is otm. lot of classic horror flix are sequels. wouldn't count return of the living dead among them, though. that's more a mock-sequel horror comedy that became a franchise of its own. and brian yuzna's rotld 3 is great! why did you not love? super cheezy and maybe not for everybody, but i dug it. not really worth it unless it's the crazy gory "unrated" version tho (of course, of course...)

others:

dawn of the dead
day of the dead
halloween 3 (fans hate it, because they are wrong)
bride of frankenstein
final destination 2
texas chainsaw massacre 2 (a masterpiece!)
evil dead 2: dead by dawn

It was just mostly a hideous-looking woman whimpering and crying and occasionally lashing out and killing people. And lots of running.

thought it was kinda sad : ' (

nobody axed her if she want to be a zombie

day of the dead
halloween 3

^^yes yes

I'm hard-pressed to think of any that haven't already been named. Having just recently watched the lot of them, I'll rep for Nightmare On Elm St. IV, directed competently and entertainingly enough by a young Renny Harlin. Ummmmmmmm...oh, Exorcist III is pretty 'fresh'. Or 'dope'. Whichever you prefer.

Is it 'funky fresh' or 'wacky legit'?

I had a dream last night than a friend gave me a dvd feature titled EVIL DEAD GENIE.

But otherwise, Evil Dead II & Hellraiser II are better than the originals.

Also Inferno is great and Mother of Tears is, if not great, at least Argento's best work in years.

Friday the 13th Part 2 is a lot better than part 1 IMO, although all of them are pretty terrible. Part 7 would be really fun if they had left in the gore.

Texas Chainsaw II is good.

Evil dead 2 and Army of Darkness are classics.

I'm a little confused by the praise for Hellraiser 2, I thought that was pretty silly.

oh yeah Exorcist III seconded. One of the weirdest, wackiest movies ever released by a studio.

Matt, perhaps you've never seen Hellraiser 2 on acid. It's a phantasmagoric nightmare that's more surrealist art film than horror. The main problem is that they didn't have 1/10th the budget to create what they were shooting for, so you have to fill in some gaps with your imagination (or chemical assistance).

Like you have to be able to make the leap that people can wear other people's skin.

With proper suspension of disbelieve, and allowing for some flawed fx and bad acting, Hellraiser 2 is one of the best movies ever.

:)

Bride of Chucky

aka Chucky Gets Lucky

SEED OF CHUCKY!

and nate otm: hellraiser ii rules. some of the trippiest & most fantastical imagery/ideas ever in a commercial horror flick. love exorcist iii, too. love any movie that gives like a third of its screen time to brad dourif ranting about devil shit.

ok I trust you guys, hellraiser II's going in the netflix queue.

it's one of Jodorowsky's favorites

Hellraiser II on acid sounds horrifying (but not as horrifying as Lord of Illusions on acid!!)

wd tht they released a teeth II

All of the Phantasm sequels are worth watching, but I'm sure everyone knew that already.

The first Phantasm broke my brain into eight pieces. Do the sequels just, like, dance on the pieces or something?

Ugh, Hellraiser 2 is terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible. All of the sadism and nihilism of the first with none of the wit, flair or tautness.

Hellraiser 2 has some memorable imagery, but the story just falls to pieces, especially the stuff about Pinhead and company as innocent, unwitting victims of the giant spindle thing (Leviathan, IIRC?). What made them scary in the first place was the idea that they had done all that horrible shit to themselves willingly.

The one thing that always sticks in my mind from HR2 is the doctor Cenobite's laughter mixed with a dentist's drill on the soundtrack. Ew.

And Bride of Frankenstein OTMFM. Vastly better than the original in nearly every way, which is no small achievement.

Probably no one will agree but one of the few recent horror sequels that actually improved on the original IMO was Hostel 2.

No, I really rate Hellraiser II as well. Kenneth Cranham is great, and Clare Higgins is just stunning in both movies. The craziness works for me.

Probably no one will agree but one of the few recent horror sequels that actually improved on the original IMO was Hostel 2.

― tectonic p (latebloomer), Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:07 AM (12 hours ago)

i wholeheartedly agree w/this

BoF is playing at Film Forum this weekend, for those in NYC.

The first Phantasm broke my brain into eight pieces. Do the sequels just, like, dance on the pieces or something?

That's about right. Each subsequent one tries to expand on the previous (with the exception of part 2, which is more or less a remake of the original...but worth seeing anyway.)

final destination 2

^good film. The whole build up to the highway pileup scene is awesome.

Phantasm 3 and 4 are big piles of crap. But I will still go see part 5 someday.

I mean, I've sat through 10 Hellraiser films now and only 3-4 of them are good.

Does Jaws 2 count? If so, Jaws 2.

Does Jaws 4 count? Because not Jaws 4.

well fuckit Piranha 2 has flying piranhas ... FLYING PIRANHAS.

jaws 2 a worthy sequel

psycho 2 was pretty good iir

yar Psycho 2 has a rare performance by Meg Tilly. tip!

I think Nightmare On Elm Street 2 is actually really good - kind of the Dennis Cooper version of Freddy.

Does Jaws 4 count? Because not Jaws 4.

Underrated imo. Should have gone with giant landshark, tho.

Wasn't there a Children of the Corn sequel which involved the spooky kids moving to a big city & growing evil corn in an alleyway or something?

Elm St. 2 is good only in that it is interesting to view it as a metaphor for repressed homosexuality, because it works very very well.

unsure if it counts, but even if the original Cabin By The Lake was pointless and awful it still looked like the Godfather compared to the sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYC_egttrvo
hyped

[Waiting on the edge of my seat for someone to express their uninhibited love for puppetmaster]

some guy watched all the witchcraft movies and shared all the worst bits:

http://www.youtube.com/user/watercooler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SxryC5pgMY

dunno about puppetmaster, but ah, WISHMASTER 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daZDYRRXngo