Anyone care to have a say on the best horror follow up?

[snowbeast323]

Ok I didn't want to say sequel here because as we know some horror series' have many more than 2 films.....so what horror follow ups (or Sequels if you must) do you like?

My personal favourites are:

Psycho II-IV
Friday the 13th II-IV+VII
Sleepaway Camp II-III
Halloween II
and....
Dawn of the Dead

Anyone....?

[x666x]

I agree with F13th, Sleepaway Camp 2, and Halloween 2.

Can we consider Aliens as SciFi Horror at least.

Night of the Demons 2
28 Weeks Later
Wrong Turn 2
NOES 3
Demons 2
ROTLD 2
Hannibal
Blind Dead 2

[YottNik]

Friday the 13th Part 2 is probably my all time favorite film, let alone follow-up.

[Jimbo]

Bloody Murder 2
Dr. Orloffs Monster

And most Universal Monsters (Dracula,Frankenstein, Creature etc..)

[vampyr789]

all of the Friday the 13th sequels except (8-10)
Sleepaway Camps 2-4
Halloween 2
Child's Play 2
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness
Bride of Frankenstein

[russweiss]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Evil Dead series yet. I also liked Underworld and it's sequel and look forward to the third film. Also the Terminator films (at least the first two) although they may only be considered sci-fi and not horror. Hammer's vampire and frankenstein series. Paul Naschy's Waldemar Daninski werewolf films. The Blood Island films.

[Workshed]

Troll 2


Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Ghoulies II
Day of the Dead
Resident Evil: Extinction
Underworld: Evolution

others already mentioned:

Halloween II
Evil Dead II
Dawn of the Dead

[DVD-fanatic-9]

I won't defend it like Deadly Friend, but Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. I've already expressed that I love the film with a passion. A white-hot intensity that burns like 1,000 suns! I still don't know why no one else doesn't love the film like I do. I guess they're too busy expecting it to fall into a little catagory or bend to the assumed rules of the series. But I like films that break away from whatever people think a series has to be. I like things that are different. Always have, always will. There's nothing worse than the same thing over and over again!

I'm also a huge fan of Leprechaun 2 and 3. I don't know how to defend those movies. I just found them a fucking hoot from start to finish. Never fail. Those things put a smile on my face 10 miles wide!

Bride of Chucky is almost a masterpiece. For anyone who didn't quite understand what worked so well technically (and it was a rather style-less film, very industrial, very gritty in some places), Bride is a genius work of black comedy and is the first movie to finally break the writer Don Mancini out of his closet (in more ways than one). No restraints placed on the sexuality, no bad moralizing of the main characters (in this case - Tiffany and Chucky, not Jesse and Jade), and it finally satirizes bad road movies and the tired old "Bonnie & Clyde" routine so many movies picked up after Bonnie & Clyde.

I think Demons 2 is a lot better than the original. Even if it is cheesier. And the music on the whole isn't quite as good. Or the gore. But it's more suspenseful and exhilirating. And I like more upbeat endings any and every time.

I love Psycho's II, III, and IV. They're all either intelligent, disturbing, or incredibly stylish. They're kind of underrated in a way. They get a lot of attention here on the boards, but they don't seem to spring to minds in fans and get the big fullblown fan attention on sites with pictures and sound clips and they're so interesting with a lot to say. And have their share of good gore and creepy moments and style. Especially that throat-slitting in part III and the slit wrists. Amazing special effects work there.

As far as Nightmare goes, the same boring 2 and 3 a lot of other people like too. The acting in 4 is atrocious and the writing is sappy and stupid. But the style is enough to kind of get me through that. I also quite like the music they did for the film. So, I'll watch parts of 4 if not the whole thing. But literally, if anyone else is around me when I watch it, I will wince and cringe at so many of the line readings. This movie kind of set a standard of bad acting in the series.

I like quite a few parts of Amityville (1992): It's About Time. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth has some bad moments but is very entertaining. Critters 2: The Main Course is another enjoyable sequel, if not taken too seriously. Ghoulies II is good mean-spirited fun.

The cringe moments come fast and furious, but I will sit through the entire Children of the Corn franchise. I don't know how I get through it, but I do. There is an incredible style to those movies. I'd love to see a remake to that series done right. To fix the bad acting and the really melodramatic, bad-biblical dialogue. It just sounds campy coming out of the mouth of a kid!

Of course - Gremlins 2: The New Batch. A full-on masterpiece. Halloween II is a really good-looking movie with a great sound design / an amazing score, I thought. As for Halloween III, it's not as good as either of the first 2 movies, but there are scenes I like a lot. Also - Poltergeist III. Not a great plot or anything, but technically it's very well made. The special effects and mechanical effects are really impressive in my mind opinion. Easy to overlook that horrible actor with the curly hair playing Lara Flynn Boyle's love interest!

I also thought Howling III: The Marsupials was a great movie. I didn't know the director had such a cruddy history. He really directed the much-hated 2nd movie??? Your Sister is a Werewolf?? Which I was dying to see but procrastinated, now Netflix took it off their Instant viewer. But I really liked it - except for the stuff with the pouch. I think it worked brilliantly though, because it was so disgusting I couldn't watch, yet sweet and sensitive. But it was so revolting!!

Island of the Alive: It's Alive III. That's a great one. Completely undervalued and underrated! I also like parts of Sleepaway Camp 3 a lot, but won't put it on my list perse. And who could ever forget Troll 2??

Then of course, there's the Scream sequels. More thriller oriented than horror. But they both have some very good scenes. "I wanna know what happens!! I wanna know what happens!" "Wait for the fucking movie!!"

[vampyr789]

Originally Posted by DVD-fanatic-9

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. I've already expressed that I love the film with a passion.

gotta love when Jason punches that guy's head off...

Originally Posted by DVD-fanatic-9

Of course - Gremlins 2: The New Batch. A full-on masterpiece.

i second that

Originally Posted by DVD-fanatic-9

Then of course, there's the Scream sequels.

i love the sequels...that must be why i bought the box set. i don't understand why people don't like them...they're just as good as the original!! i

[spawningblue]

Friday the 13th 2-7
Halloween 2-5, 7
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness
Sleepaway Camp 2
28 Weeks Later
Return of the Evil Dead, Night of the Seagulls
Child's Play 2
Psycho 2 (Haven't watched 3 and 4 yet)
Amityville 2: The Posession
Nightmare on Elm Street 2-5, 7
Silence of the Lambs
Exorcist 3

[HAEMORRHAGE]

Troll 2



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[Kim Bruun]

Halloween II is probably my favourite horror film as well as my favourite sequel. It started my love of horror, and to this day, it makes make tense and uneasy.

Friday the 13th: Part 2 recaptures and elaborates on the original Friday perfectly, and is in many ways better. It features a stronger heroine, better scares, and it sustains the tension longer. Betsy Palmer doesn't get to show off her stuff as much as she did in the original, though...

And as much as I thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was annoyingly unfunny and unscary, I love Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III - it is so wonderfully fastpaced, and the scares are sharp and nicely timed.

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Originally Posted by vampyr789

gotta love when Jason punches that guy's head off...

Actually, I love it for a lot of dorky reasons. Like- I loved the music in the movie. I like the way they shot the ship and the water. I like the cinematography. I like Rennie as a character. I love the use of color in places on the ship where it's dark. And I've just got a thing for horror movies involving water / the sea / the ocean. Especially this and Open Water. Though I hate Jaws, that's because I don't consider it a horror movie by the 1970's standards. So, whatever.

And I didn't think any of it was funny or supposed to be at all, except anything to do with Jason's hockey mask (the poster ad board and the street punks when he shows them his face).

Originally Posted by vampyr789

i love the sequels...that must be why i bought the box set. i don't understand why people don't like them...they're just as good as the original!! i

Well... they are as entertaining. But you have to like the characters. They're very Hollywood movies in that regard. But there are more than a few scenes that are groaningly bad. Especially anything to do with Randy in 2 or 3. And the 2nd rate satirical elements in the 3rd movie that are supposed to sort of "lampoon" Hollywood / subjects of "Entertainment Tonight" type stories, etc. But it sort of evens out, if you watch a lot of thrillers, you know how it all goes.

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by Kim Bruun

Halloween II is probably my favourite horror film as well as my favourite sequel. It started my love of horror, and to this day, it makes make tense and uneasy.

Friday the 13th: Part 2 recaptures and elaborates on the original Friday perfectly, and is in many ways better. It features a stronger heroine, better scares, and it sustains the tension longer. Betsy Palmer doesn't get to show off her stuff as much as she did in the original, though...

And as much as I thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was annoyingly unfunny and unscary, I love Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III - it is so wonderfully fastpaced, and the scares are sharp and nicely timed.

Friday the 13th, Part 2 IMO is even better than the first (and definitely the best Friday the 13th). Halloween II is a good sequel, but as a follow-up to Halloween, they really didn't catch the feel of the original.

But as far as sequels go, I'd say Hellraiser II was a good follow-up to the original. And since some consider it horror, Jaws 2 I personally think is one of the best sequels ever made to a film. Jeannot Szwarc was able to capture the feeling of the first one so well it's shocking. A worthy sequel to a cinematic classic.

~Matt

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Friday the 13th, Part 2 IMO is even better than the first (and definitely the best Friday the 13th). Halloween II is a good sequel, but as a follow-up to Halloween, they really didn't catch the feel of the original.

Completely agreed on the Halloween front. But being me, I like that they changed it. And that part III wasn't anything like part II. I mean, it's sad to see any great era of horror fade out. And I think the 70's was the greatest decade in horror history (maybe it wasn't but I think it was). In fact, that's actually what I hold against parts 4, 5, and 6! That they're nothing like the earlier movies and don't have a feel that even feels like Halloween the holiday or the season. Except for the godawful part 6, whose 1 sole good quality was how it captured Halloween in the fall. So, the later films managed to make me nostalgic for the inferior parts II and III and I'm considering that an overall win for the fans.

On the Friday the 13th front... I think part II moves along faster. So that makes it more attractive to certain horror fans. But for me, I love slow. I still think it's what horror is all about. At least, where mood is concerned. When someone's dying, it's always best to speed up the result. Unless, I suppose it's a reveal of an already dead body because by then it's too late. I guess slasher fans like it faster, I don't know. I used to say I loved the slasher genre. But now that I take a closer look at myself, I was dead wrong. It's because I first really got into horror after Scream and that format was fun for a teenager. But the last few years, you just can't beat the slow, atmospheric film. Like I said... I still think it's what horror is all about.

And the only thing that bothers me about Friday the 13th now is the really, really, really bad acting. It seems like they improvised their entire dialogues, standing around waiting for the camera equipment to get set up. But of course... Betsy Palmer. Just can't beat the-Betsy!