20 Terrible Movie Sequels, Ranked from Bad to Badder
by
Joal Ryan, for Metacritic
– June 16, 2016
The Hollywood sequel is 100 years old this year, and we know what you’re thinking: That’s a long time ... and a lot of bad movies.
With apologies to The Dark Knight, you are not wrong. We mined our Metacritic archives to come up with 20 great examples of lousy sequels.
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photo by Dimension Films
There have been a lot of sequels to John Carpenter’s landmark Halloween (1978). None rated a lower Metacritic score than 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection, which literally killed off the Jamie Lee Curtis-Laurie Strode era. Thanks, guys.
“Halloween: Resurrection comes closer to comatainment.” —Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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