JigglesBunny
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I agree, actually. The whole "is there a witch/is there not" thing, the concept of mass hysteria, the subtle psychological horror, it's all still there.
All of that got thrown out in Blair Witch (16) but BoS managed all of that.
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Weirdest Horror Movie Sequels.
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All of that got thrown out in Blair Witch (16) but BoS managed all of that.
Jerm411
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Halloween 5 is another weird one I thought of...a great character from the previous film who it appeared was the new main lead character is killed off just like that inconsequently, there's odd moments of slapstick comedy, and we have a mysterious man following Michael around who eventually breaks him out of jail...yes Michael Myers in jail lol...
Come to think of it...6 is off the walls weird as hell too...Michael impregnating his niece, the Thorn mythos bullshit, and Paul Rudd as a creepy ass dude who is a good guy lol....
Come to think of it...6 is off the walls weird as hell too...Michael impregnating his niece, the Thorn mythos bullshit, and Paul Rudd as a creepy ass dude who is a good guy lol....
Dear god. How is it after all these years that I have never noticed Breakfast Club riff from that poster? My horror mind is truly blown.
I still need to see this. I can't find it anywhere
But all that executive meddling. Somebody fucked with that tape. That tape is wrong!
Honestly BoS is so deep into the Bali Witch mythos that most of it just flies over people's heads, but I think I still prefer Blair Witch to BoS. It's more put together, even if it does surrender itself to the found footage tropes a little. I also liked the way that they handled time in that movie and the
voodoo doll moment
Violence Jack
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Return of the Living Dead part 2. Went from a pretty violent film to being an almost PG-13 horror parody because the director didn't like horror movies.
But the weirdest has to be 976-EVIL 2. Didn't have shit to do with the first film, and the story was about an evil ghost being summoned by an evil phone line to kill college co-eds.
But the weirdest has to be 976-EVIL 2. Didn't have shit to do with the first film, and the story was about an evil ghost being summoned by an evil phone line to kill college co-eds.
shawnbuddy
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Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys. Full Moon pitted their tiny sci-fi hero Dollman against their B-team evil toys (A-team being the Puppet Masters puppets) and mixed in the obscure music video horror flick Bad Channels because that happened to have a shrunken woman in it just the right size for a love interest for Dollman. Mostly recycled footage. They followed it up 11 years later with a more obvious clash, Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollman_vs._Demonic_Toys
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollman_vs._Demonic_Toys
TheTurboFD
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Jason X .... my god that movie had me saying wtf throughout it all.
family_guy
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V.H.S. 2
Host Samurai
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Why is Nightmare 2 considered so weird? It didn't follow the story much and was pretty self contained, but I didn't think it was weird. Actually thought it was quite awesome. Freddy was pretty vicious in it.
cj_iwakura
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Weirdest, not best.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
House 2
Man I loved that movie but it was fuckin weird as hell lol
Man I loved that movie but it was fuckin weird as hell lol
TheSadRanger
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deadscreensky
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Every few years I check to see if any sort of extended cut of Bloodline has leaked, because some of the cut footage looked pretty interesting. It's not a great film by any means, but it has some cool scenes and ideas. I like the concept that Hell has become more industrial and mechanized to mirror the same trend in the human world.
Better than the lousy third film, at least.
It's unfortunate and kind of bizarre that the Hellraiser series isn't higher quality, because the concept is unusually adaptive -- it's well-suited to 'random' sequels.
TheSadRanger
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I'd love see a modern take of the Hellraiser franchise in the proper hands. The thing that I enjoy about the series is the universe and lore is surprisingly deep.
But if it would ever happen I would like it to have an actual budget that way we can have a proper portrayal of the cenobite realm.
I'm actually surprised no ones touched it though with all the reboots and remakes these days.
mariachi507
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There supposed to be a remake helmed by Clive Barker actually, it's been sitting in development hell for a while now.
Probably because...
That said, it's definitely the weakest of the sequels. Especially because it had to follow the first movie. Luckily, part 3 brought the ship straight again.
I don't know, gremlins 2 was pretty damn weird
I always expected the cenobite realm to be something similar to those flashes of horror in Event Horizon instead of the one we got
I remember watching this after convincing my parents to pick it up from the local video store. It was terrible but I was like 11 so I ate it up. Then again I always had a soft spot for the Puppet Master movies
Brian_FETO
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Does Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors count? It's definitely not as huge of a departure as some of the films in this thread but still
2 was pretty dumb but the tone is probably closer to the original film, 3 is more accepted by fans but it's an 80's ass 80's film and the start of Nightmare stuff being super campy. (Still my favorite though.) That puppet kill!
2 was pretty dumb but the tone is probably closer to the original film, 3 is more accepted by fans but it's an 80's ass 80's film and the start of Nightmare stuff being super campy. (Still my favorite though.) That puppet kill!
that puppet kill is one of the only things in the entire series that legitimately grosses me out
The Eye 10.
The Eye 1 & 2 were your decent, old-school Hong Kong horror movies. The Eye 1 even had a Hollywood remake with Jessica Alba as the lead. But by the time they got to three, it went all Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows and almost became a parody of itself.
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The Eye 1 & 2 were your decent, old-school Hong Kong horror movies. The Eye 1 even had a Hollywood remake with Jessica Alba as the lead. But by the time they got to three, it went all Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows and almost became a parody of itself.
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The scene where they go to hell to save a friend (or something) and "fart" to scare the ghosts away was so facepalm inducing. It was the moment where the series completely jumped the shark, so no wonder there was no sequel after that.
BattleMonkey
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Howling 2
TerminalDogma
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM
I'm legit surprised this wasn't brought up more in this thread.
Polioliolio
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Ditto. Could have been a brilliant series. Michael Myers was already iconic with the first two movies, so it's not like we would have lost that.
attack of the killer tomatoes has always been a comedy.
A Link to the Past
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HellRaiser in Space or whatever it was was pretty weird
Hell, any of the sci-fi/horror crossovers are weird; why are there so many of them?
That's a Christmas sequel
Hell, any of the sci-fi/horror crossovers are weird; why are there so many of them?
That's a Christmas sequel
Jon Carter
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If you think about it, all three Texas Chain Saw sequels are wildly different from the films that came before. The identity crisis of that franchise is crazy.
Blair Witch 2, I liked, but I have no idea why they thought mainstream audiences would respond to it well. It's a weird, deceptive, cerebral but not-at-all scary sequel to a film that got popular because it was scary as hell. It would be like following up The Hangover with a straight drama.
The Last Exorcism Part II has very little in common with the first film, is not scary, sucks balls, and has one of the least satisfying endings in film history.
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, just like I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, took a franchise grounded in reality with a human killer and added supernatural elements to it. The film references the previous two, or at least the first one, so we know it is set in the same universe. It's also shit, whereas I'm a pretty big fan of Urban Legends, a sequel that was pretty strange in its own right as it was more plot-oriented, more meta and less brutal overall than the first film.
Blair Witch 2, I liked, but I have no idea why they thought mainstream audiences would respond to it well. It's a weird, deceptive, cerebral but not-at-all scary sequel to a film that got popular because it was scary as hell. It would be like following up The Hangover with a straight drama.
The Last Exorcism Part II has very little in common with the first film, is not scary, sucks balls, and has one of the least satisfying endings in film history.
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, just like I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, took a franchise grounded in reality with a human killer and added supernatural elements to it. The film references the previous two, or at least the first one, so we know it is set in the same universe. It's also shit, whereas I'm a pretty big fan of Urban Legends, a sequel that was pretty strange in its own right as it was more plot-oriented, more meta and less brutal overall than the first film.
SunEatsMoon
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Wait, there's a new Blair Witch? The hell. I love the original so I'm going to hazard a guess that the new one is hot garbage. I need to see it.
Jon Carter
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Yeah, titled "Blair Witch." Even the title is a lesser copy of the original.
I haven't actually seen it despite being a huge fan of the first and liking the second film well enough, because the trailer made it look like what producers originally wanted a Blair Witch 2 to be and the reviews said the same thing, so I'll wait.
fart town usa
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Yea, Halloween 3 is awesome.
Maybe Friday the 13th part 2 considering Jason wasn't the villain in the original. Basically the same movie though.
Exorcist 2 is an absolute piece of shit and the 4th film has a weird history as there are two versions of them, completely different films/director. Both are pretty awful.
Insidious 2 was an absolute letdown. First was a slow burn, really tense. 2nd was complete camp.
Howling 2: Your sister is a werewolf takes the cake though. Man...watch this movie, it is so insanely bad. It's indescribable, has to be experienced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXRw8NAUpmk full movie.
https://youtu.be/YXRw8NAUpmk?t=6m21s 6 minutes in, watch 30 seconds and you'll get what I'm saying, lol.
fart town usa
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Ha! Beat me, glad someone else has seen this gem.
I have somehow ended up in a timeline where people liked Halloween 3? What in the hell?
I liked the idea of switching to an anthology concept, since the Michael Myers thing was already old after one sequel, but Halloween 3 is just awful and plodding. Mind-controlling masks? Corporate shenanigans? Yawn. I have no idea what people calling it "awesome" could possibly be seeing in it.
I liked the idea of switching to an anthology concept, since the Michael Myers thing was already old after one sequel, but Halloween 3 is just awful and plodding. Mind-controlling masks? Corporate shenanigans? Yawn. I have no idea what people calling it "awesome" could possibly be seeing in it.
fart town usa
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Yea, to each their own.
I just thought it was super twisted, the idea of a company making masks that
eat the faces of children
Plus, it has Tom Atkins, that dude is awesome.
Pamplemousse
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Ikr? I disagree with anthology, though. Give me Michael all day err day. If you guys want an anthology call it something other than "Halloween." After the original and Part II, anything with "Halloween" in the title should ostensibly feature Michael killing people.
fart town usa
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I hear what you're saying but there are far more bad Michael Myers movies than there are good ones. I feel like the last one worth watching was H2O. 4&5 are forgettable, 6 has Paul Rudd so that's pretty cool and Resurrection, my god...
The Rob Zombie movies are god awful, the first is watchable but that sequel, what the hell was that all about?
fart town usa
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Not a sequel but how about the second part of IT. The Stephen King mini-series.
I watch the first half every October, it holds up so well. The relationship between the kids, etc. Still has some incredibly creepy moments. But man, the 2nd half where it focuses mainly on the adults, the dynamic is so corny and outside of the few scenes that focus on the kids, it's awful.
Take this scene for instance, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4pVOo56Kc
I watch the first half every October, it holds up so well. The relationship between the kids, etc. Still has some incredibly creepy moments. But man, the 2nd half where it focuses mainly on the adults, the dynamic is so corny and outside of the few scenes that focus on the kids, it's awful.
Take this scene for instance, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4pVOo56Kc
CadetMahoney
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So looking through this thread, Blair Witch series is the most recent to have "Weirdest Horror Movie Sequels"? I saw someone mention Insidious but I recall that still follows a very similar theme.
Seems like the problem/issue doesn't really exist anymore.
Seems like the problem/issue doesn't really exist anymore.
Makes even less sense when you realize that it isn't even the same shark. Either this shark has acquired the collective memories of every Jaws or personally witnessed at least one of the sharks who died and understood enough to swear revenge on the bloodline of the one who killed it.
It went under the name "The Woods" for a while. They only officially confirmed that it was a Blair Witch sequel a few months before release.
It's meh. Nowhere near as bad as Book of Shadows, but it doesn't play as much of a mindgame with you as the original did. The threat is usually pretty obvious and you can see a few kills coming. Still, I'd say it's worth a watch because it does expand on the story and there's some cool stuff in there.
bitbydeath
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Feast.
The first was a pretty normal horror movie with people stuck in a bar, fighting some alien like creatures and then
Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds
It got really wacky
Feast 3: The Happy Ending
Was also a bit out there but overall still loved the trilogy.
The first was a pretty normal horror movie with people stuck in a bar, fighting some alien like creatures and then
Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds
It got really wacky
Feast 3: The Happy Ending
Was also a bit out there but overall still loved the trilogy.
fart town usa
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Yea, I really enjoyed this new Blair Witch.
It wasn't anything mind blowing but I thought it was filmed really well and it had a great vibe, I thought the reviews were unnecessary. I don't think any sequel to the Blair Witch can capture what the original managed to do. Outside of 1 or 2 movies, nothing like it had even been done and it turned into a pop-culture phenomenon. All you can really expect at this point is kids getting lost in the woods and creepy things happening, which I thought this new one pulled off in spades. My only complaint is that the drone aspect was sorely under utilized, total missed opportunity but the one shot of it really drove home just how massive those woods are.
bitbydeath
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More gross than the uncensored cockroach girl in 4?
Edit: 5 also had some good ones like the guy on the motorbike and the girl who got forced to eat her own guts.
V/H/S Viral was even weirder for me. Especially that second segment with the
demonic dicks
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