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In the spirit of October, I'd like to know what some of your picks are for weirdest sequels to popular horror franchises. You know, stuff like Jason X, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, and any film with the word Hood in the title.*

My pick is Sleepaway Camp 4. Normally I would've gone with Leprechaun in Space, but the other movie doesn't even seem like it was meant to exist.

*Disclaimer: Tales from the Hood is awesome, but it's not a sequel.
 
Halloween 3. Different and amazing. Supposed to be the start of Halloween anthology type movies and I wish it would have happened!
 
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I'm weird and kind of prefer it to the original, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. It's a major departure from the tone of the first one. The movie plays it as more of a comedy than a horror. It's a dark comedy for sure, but I find it funny. I love Bill Mosely's Choptop and Dennis Hopper is also a blast to watch. Plus the poster is the best:
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zeemumu said:
Nah. Blair Witch is meh but Book of Shadows is just frustrating.
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It's definitely frustrating, especially knowing what it could have been without studio meddling, but the concept and what it tries to do is far more creative and interesting than the new Blair Witch which was just a poorly done retread of the original with forced jump scares and bad acting.

Really disappointed me, unfortunately. Expected better from Wingard.
 
zeemumu said:
In the spirit of October, I'd like to know what some of your picks are for weirdest sequels to popular horror franchises. You know, stuff like Jason X, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, and any film with the word Hood in the title.*

My pick is Sleepaway Camp 4. Normally I would've gone with Leprechaun in Space, but the other movie doesn't even seem like it was meant to exist.

*Disclaimer: Tales from the Hood is awesome, but it's not a sequel.
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Sleepaway 4 was the one with frog skinning, fireworks, and nail bunk bed, right? I think I watched it. It sucks, but I was strangely mesmerized by it.
 
Pamplemousse said:
Sleepaway 4 was the one with frog skinning, fireworks, and nail bunk bed, right? I think I watched it. It sucks, but I was strangely mesmerized by it.
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Nah, that's Return to Sleepaway Camp, which is a masterpiece compared to Sleepaway Camp IV. Sleepaway Camp IV is like 50 minutes of footage from the previous films and 10 minutes of poor-quality footage of a woman lying on a dock in a bikini having an internal monologue and then a brief chase through a forest that makes The Blair Witch Project look like a Kubrick film.
 
Steamlord said:
Nah, that's Return to Sleepaway Camp, which is a masterpiece compared to Sleepaway Camp IV. Sleepaway Camp IV is like 50 minutes of footage from the previous films and 10 minutes of poor-quality footage of a woman lying on a dock in a bikini having an internal monologue and then a brief chase through a forest that makes The Blair Witch Project look like a Kubrick film.
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Hmmm. I'm intrigued by how weird that sounds. Return at least had good kills. The Sleepaway Camp series in general had good kills. Nothing can top the
outhouse drowning
in 2, though!
 
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

I was very young when I first saw it, but I still feel like it doesn't belong in the series. It deals with heavier shit than most of the others and it's got a very odd, almost subdued vibe.
 
Probably the Friday the 13th with the
fake Jason
.

Elm Street 2.

Leprechaun in the Hood.

Jason X- I love this one though.
 
I know Silent Night Deadly Night 2 (the one with "Garbage Day!") is composed of primarily clips from the first film and then a small amount of new footage.
 
norm9 said:
Probably the Friday the 13th with the
fake Jason
.

Elm Street 2.

Leprechaun in the Hood.

Jason X- I love this one though.
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Jason X was probably the most self-aware. They make fun of every trope from Jason being brought out of his coma by two characters having sex to ominous music every time Jason gets back up.
 
Slumber Party Massacre 2 is one of the most surreal movies I've ever seen, I *have* to imagine it was a huge departure from the original (which I haven't seen). I haven't seen the 3rd either, but I feel confident that this movie qualifies lol.

Troll 2 is a good candidate. Although some of us know the story behind it, it did get the official sequel status.

Reacting to others' posts: IMO the only weird thing about Friday V is that it was revealed at the end that Jason wasn't the killer. It otherwise fit the formula well.

Nightmare 2 broke some of the rules of the series, but then again the rules hadn't been established yet. A New Nightmare was certainly weird, but in a great way, so I'm not sure that "counts."

Maybe Halloween 3?
 
Psycho 2 is basically centered around Norman Bates being released into the public after he is deemed to no longer be insane, so the heroine from the first film and her daughter try and drive him insane again by trolling him with messages and things to make him think his "mother" personality has resurfaced.

The movie then swerves by having Bates's "real" mother return, claiming the woman who raised Normal was actually her sister from whom Normal was stolen as an infant, and she starts murdering people before Norman kills her because he was driven insane by the afformentioned plot to troll him back to insanity.
 
Not sure if Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is horror or not but it does have some horror elements in it but the sequel Return of the Killer Tomatoes got even weirder and even more nonsensical to a point were its just a comedy.

Child's Play or the Chucky movies got weirder and weirder as they kept making them, the last ones were pretty much comedies.
 
Glass Joe said:
Reacting to others' posts: IMO the only weird thing about Friday V is that it was revealed at the end that Jason wasn't the killer. It otherwise fit the formula well.
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It's been a good decade or so since I last saw it, but I remember being shocked he was a fake. It wasn't necessary at all, so it felt weird to me to tack that on.

New Nightmare (not that I think it was bad. A return to form for Englund imo) and all postmodern horror movies of that ilk are weird to me too. Never got into Scream so all those types of movies rub me the wrong way.

ETA- Halloween III was amazing.
 
The Kree said:
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

I was very young when I first saw it, but I still feel like it doesn't belong in the series. It deals with heavier shit than most of the others and it's got a very odd, almost subdued vibe.
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I just watched this the other day. The acting and pacing are really bad, and Freddy is barely in it, but there's something strangely alluring about it. The practical effects/ death scenes are pretty good too.
 
zeemumu said:
Jason X was probably the most self-aware. They make fun of every trope from Jason being brought out of his coma by two characters having sex to ominous music every time Jason gets back up.
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I'm going to have to rewatch this one again. Nothing beats smashing a someone's face that's been submerged in liquid nitrogen. Such a fun memory.

CD'S BAR said:
I just watched this the other day. The acting and pacing are really bad, and Freddy is barely in it, but there's something strangely alluring about it. The practical effects/ death scenes are pretty good too.
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From my memory of the 5 or 6 hour Elm Street documentary, I remember them saying it has the least amount of kills of the films.
 
CD'S BAR said:
I just watched this the other day. The acting and pacing are really bad, and Freddy is barely in it, but there's something strangely alluring about it. The practical effects/ death scenes are pretty good too.
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Yeah, 5 is the one he force-feeds the anorexic girl to death. It's totally classic.
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The Devil's Rejects- It does a complete 180 on House of 1000 Corpses and you actively root for the Firefly family to kill the good guys.
 
Glass Joe said:
Slumber Party Massacre 2 is one of the most surreal movies I've ever seen, I *have* to imagine it was a huge departure from the original (which I haven't seen). I haven't seen the 3rd either, but I feel confident that this movie qualifies lol.
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Isn't that the movie that has a crazy greaser serial killer chasing co-eds with a drill guitar? I have the most vivid memory of watching this movie on Cinemax in the late 80's or early 90's as a kid and laughing my ass off at the sheer absurdity of a serial killer like this. I think he even had a catch phase like "I just want to love you baaaabbbbyyyy!"


Thanks for reviving that memory, time for me to hunt this movie down.
 
Jason Goes to Hell. Jason is now a worm demon that has to enter the vagina of his sister (he didn't have a sister for 8 movies) to be reborn. Also he ties a guy up in some weird bdsm display and shaves him. One of the weirdest, most fucked up sequels ever.

I mean Jason X made more sense.

norm9 said:
From my memory of the 5 or 6 hour Elm Street documentary, I remember them saying it has the least amount of kills of the films.
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ANOES movies never had a huge bodycount. Only 3 and 4 have a bit more kills. Dream Child has 3 murders, which is the usual. And it's a truly underrated, quite grim movie. I love the entire series. Only slasher franchise where every film has something to offer. Except the remake. Now THAT's a piece of shit.

Random trivia but I own a glove made from the original brass templates that were used by Ryan Effner, the man who made all of the gloves used in Part 5. It's the exact measurements from the original screenused glove.

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JigglesBunny said:
And somehow, better than the new Blair Witch. This truly is the darkest timeline.
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Agreed that it's (way) better than Blair Witch (2016) but I don't agree that Book of Shadows has nothing to do with the original. The respect of the original flows through the blood and soul of BoS, even though it flubs the execution.

First thing to come to mind of "weirdest horror movie sequel" is [REC] 3. Now THAT movie is like wtf
 
No one brought up Jaws 2,3, and 4? Jaws 4, the shark literally has memories and is out for revenge on the Brody family.
Edit: I see Jaws: The Revenge was brought up.
 
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