Sequels that are in a decidedly different genre to the original

eg son of kong, evil dead 2, aliens

I find it interesting when filmmakers decide to do this, and I like this reasoning:

Script writer Ruth Rose intentionally made no attempt to make a serious film on the logic that it could not surpass the first. She stated "If you can't make it bigger, make it funnier."

American Psycho 2

texas chainsaw massacre 2

good one, I bet there are a fair few straight-to-video examples of this

xp

lot of horror sequels up the comedy

Yeah, I guess American Psycho is the rare example where the first movie is a comedy/satire and the second one a horror film.

apparently it wasn't written as a sequel at all & they just shoehorned in some references to patrick bateman

I guess blue in the face sorta counts

aliens

is in the OP!

oops! missed it. my bad.

Valley of the Dolls/Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

I never bought that line of alien/aliens being substantially different genres. The template set by the first movie is pretty much followed through by the second.

Sort of: Repo Man/Repo Chick

super mario bros 2

French connection

Bad lieutenant, but not rly a sequel spose

remakes in difft genres are another thing. like stepford wives

what about long running franchises that drift over time? Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) is very different from the original Pink Panther film, but it's more of a gradual change over all the movies in between

Valley of the Dolls/Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

in a similar vein (sorta sequel sorta parody) return of the living dead

Babe 2: Pig in the City

sorta sequel

BtVotD isn't even a "sorta" sequel. I'm assuming pretty much everyone knows that, but I don't know, just in case someone out there is confused I'll be pedantic on this thread.

it was originally gonna be a sequel tho no?

haha ok

Posters for the movie read, "This is not a sequel——there has never been anything like it".

Ghost Rider, sort of.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is basically in a different sub-genre

The 36 Chambers of Shaolin/Return to the 36 Chambers

The Chronicles of Riddick

evil dead 2

Army of Darkness also.

Gremlins 2 is another horror sequel that significantly ramps up the comedy. It's basically just an outright crazy comedy.

Rocky IV is as different from Rocky as it's possible for a sequel to be IMO.

Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby

Heroic Trio/Executioners pwns

Airport is glossy soap opera... Airport '75 is a camp fest

Speaking of Pink Panther, I'd say the second one A Shot in the Dark upped the comedy over the first, which was more of a light caper with stylish elements

Better Call Saul and lots of television spinoffs

mad max is mainly a hostage drama with a little leather kink and some oil

mad max two is balls out action and boomerangs for two hours

2001, 2010

Cat People/Curse of the Cat People

The 2 Captain America films.

yeah i was gonna say Captain America Winter Soldier is surely the classic example of this, of late.

Halloween III is still a horror movie, but 'genre' wise the whole stalk n slash stuff is done away with completely (Michael Myers isn't even in it) in favour of a whole 'there's something.. *weird* going on in this town and i'm gonna find out what it is' vibe more common to say The Stepford Wives. there's a genuine cult around that film; if it was called something other than Halloween III i think it'd be considered something of a forgotten classic of 80s thrillers.

also Lou Grant. are there many other dramas that were spun off from a comedy?

the only fools and horses prequel is apparently a drama

also Lou Grant. are there many other dramas that were spun off from a comedy?

― piscesx, Saturday, February 14, 2015 9:40 AM (32 minutes ago)

I can't think of many, but M*A*S*H/Trapper John MD is one.

Hangover III was some sort of heist movie. Not that I've seen it.
Psycho II until the ending.

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn?

Deathstalker / Deathstalker II

portrait of an artist as a young man
ulysses

^nice

The Raid: Redemption 2

Antonio and Mellida/Antonio's Revenge

The 400 Blows: gritty coming of age drama

All of the other Doinel films: relationship/romantic comedies

Yup

Henry IV/The Merry Wives of Windsor

I think people's ideas about "decidedly different genres" are different than mine.

I don't get how Captain America 1 and 2 are in different genres? Both are superhero action movies.

Better Call Saul

? this seems remarkably faithful to the tone and style of BB imo

it's not like it's a sitcom

People may not remember that Breaking Bad itself pretty much ran the tonal gamut and started in a very different place than it ended up.

captain america one was a historical war romance captain america two was a modern day paranoia conspiracy thriller

ppl kept saying that and i was expecting some kinda parallax view stuff but it was just a running-and-explosions marvel movie

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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman > Fernwood 2-Night/America 2-Night

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ha sry to interrupt

bless u

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