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Those horror sequels whose opening moments shocked audiences.
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00:00No genre of cinema is more synonymous with sequels than the murky realm of horror.
00:05As certain sequels often retread the same plot points as their predecessors, in turn bringing
00:09a predictability to them, there are those follow-ups that manage to do something different, something
00:14I do.
00:14Something grabbing and something surprising, and it's on those particular sequels that
00:18the attention is on here.
00:19So, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here with 10 horror movie sequels that start
00:24in surprising ways.
00:26Number 10.
00:27Slumber Party Massacre 2
00:29Slumber Party Massacre is everything you'd expect from a slasher film released in 1982.
00:34Over...
00:34Overflowing with the clichés of the subgenre, this Amy Holden Jones-helmed offering presents
00:38a group of disposable teams...
00:39A drill-wielding killer, and the sort of chaos and carnage one automatically associates with
00:44the slasher...
00:44While Russ Thorne, the villain of Slumber Party Massacre, is offed at the end of the movie...
00:49That didn't stop him from technically returning for the 1987 follow-up picture, rather than the...
00:54middle-aged mass murderer scene in the first film, the big surprise of Slumber Party Massacre 2
00:59is how...
00:59is presented upon being resurrected for another dose of bloodshed, as shown in the opening moments of...
01:04the sequel, this rogue is now a hip and cool 1950s greaser, decked out in leather and sporting...
01:09a guitar that's fitted with a drill bit...
01:11Oh, and he also sings, like, a lot...
01:13So much so, Slumber Party...
01:14Slumber Party Massacre 2 borders on being an all-out musical at times...
01:17For better or worse, Slumber Party Massacre 2's...
01:19first 15 minutes sets out to make you fully aware that this is very much a different film to its pre-
01:24predecessor.
01:25Number 9.
01:26Lost Boys The Thirst
01:27With fans having waited 20...
01:2921 years for a Lost Boys sequel, they were eventually served up to such movies in...
01:342008's Lost Boys The Tribe and 2010's Lost Boys The Thirst.
01:38To be blunt, neither of these...
01:39follow-ups were particularly good, though there was a certain charm to revisiting some of the characters from...
01:44Joel Schumacher's iconic 1987 effort.
01:46Pivotal parts of Schumacher's movie were Edgar and...
01:49Alan Frog, two young warriors looking to fight the good fight against the goddamn shit-sucking vampire...
01:54players of Santa Carla, California.
01:55Played by Corey Feldman and Jameson Newlander, respectively, in that picture...
01:59the two actors were set to reprise their roles for The Tribe.
02:02Unfortunately for Newlander...
02:04he ended up being part of an alternate ending that didn't make the final cut of that offering.
02:08Still, Jameson...
02:09did get to be a significant part of Lost Boys The Thirst alongside Feldman's Edgar Frog.
02:14What was surprising about the opening of The Thirst, though, is that Newlander's Alan ends up becoming a half-vampire...
02:19after being forced to drink vampire blood.
02:21From there, the film jumps ahead five years to find a depressed...
02:24recluse Alan living out his day surviving on animal blood.
02:27Number 8.
02:28House 4
02:29The Repossession
02:31Steve Miner's House is a relatively family-friendly horror with...
02:34just the right amount of humour to go along with its terror and tension.
02:37Unfortunately, the two subsequent...
02:39follow-ups to Miner's 1982 effort veered in vastly different directions to that first house.
02:44with House 2, the second story, leaning way too much into slapstick comedy and House...
02:49House 3, the horror show veering too much towards excessive gore and violence for the sake of excessive gore and violence.
02:54Still, 1992's House 4, The Repossession, ended up being a fitting end for the franchise.
02:59managing to recapture the same balance of horror and humour as the original movie.
03:03The Repossession...
03:04The Repossession also brought back the first film's lead character, William Catt's Roger.
03:07In House, Roger is spooked by...
03:09plentiful bumps in the night at his deceased aunt's old house.
03:12That picture also sees him separating...
03:14from his wife and puts Catt's character on the hunt for his missing young son Jimmy.
03:18For the audience, House 4...
03:19The Repossession has quite the surprise where Roger is concerned.
03:22When we pick things up with Roger, his prior...
03:24wife and son are completely ignored by the film.
03:26Instead, he's now married to someone else, Kelly, with...
03:29whom he has a daughter, Laurel.
03:30Also, while the events of House 4 are meant to take place in the same house as well...
03:34house, it's clearly a totally different building.
03:36If all of that wasn't surprising enough, the biggest shock...
03:39of the Repossession's opening is how it opts to kill off Roger in an explosive car crash.
03:44Number 7, The Devil's Rejects.
03:46What was surprising about the start of Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects?
03:49is how it immediately put the Firefly Clan on the back foot.
03:52In 2003's House 4...
03:54House of 1,000 Corpses, the Fireflies were introduced as a family who operated under their own grisly...
03:59grimy rules of murder and mayhem, and who were always one step ahead of the law.
04:03That MO was...
04:04perfectly showcased in how Mother Firefly, Otis, Baby, Captain Spalding, and co duped and...
04:09brutally slaughtered a group of police officers who visited their abode as part of a missing persons hunt...
04:14surprisingly, the opening sequence of The Devil's Rejects turns the tables on the Fireflies.
04:18For this 2000...
04:192005 sequel, it opens with a hefty armed bunch of state troopers ambushing the Firefly household while...
04:24the family sleeps.
04:25Said ambush results in the death of Rufus Firefly, the incarceration of Mother Firefly...
04:29and puts Otis, Baby, and Spalding on the run as they look to evade the law and plot the rescue of...
04:34obviously Easterbrook's mother.
04:35A rescue that doesn't happen, with Easterbrook's character murdered by the vengeance-seeking...
04:39Sheriff Wydell.
04:40Of course, Three From Hell, the third entry in this series, likewise opened in...
04:44surprising fashion, killing off Sid Haig's Spalding.
04:47Unfortunately, that was a decision made by Zombie...
04:49after it became apparent that Haig's poor health would restrict his involvement, with the actor sadly passing away...
04:54in September 2019, just days after Three From Hell premiered.
04:586.
04:59A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master.
05:02With A Nightmare on Elm Street 3...
05:04the Dream Warriors seeing franchise fave Nancy use her last breaths to help kill off Freddy Krueger...
05:09many pondered just how Krueger would resurface once it was announced that Rennie Harlan would be bringing a fourth...
05:14Elm Street picture to the silver screen in 1988.
05:16After all, you couldn't do an Elm Street offering and not...
05:19feature Robert Englund's fedora-adorned child killer, right?
05:22Freddy would indeed, obviously, return...
05:244.
05:25A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master.
05:26And Elm Street 5, The Dream Child.
05:28And Freddy's...
05:29the Final Nightmare, and kind of for Wes Craven's new nightmare.
05:32Plus, Freddy vs. Jason and even...
05:34in the awful 2010 remake, but the more shocking matter was how England's character was reintroduced
05:39in the Dream Master. When Elm Street 3 survivor Kincaid finds himself joined by his dog Jason,
05:44in a dream, it soon becomes apparent that the duo are near the remains of Freddy Krueger.
05:49Ruffling, bizarre moments in mainstream horror history, the pooch takes a literal flaming piss on
05:54Krueger's bones, which somehow resurrects the villain and allows him to carry on with his
05:58vendetta against the children.
05:59Number 5, Hellbound Hellraiser 2. Having won plenty of...
06:04Wonderful praise for its sinister visuals, unnerving atmosphere and ominous dialogue, 1987's Hellraiser...
06:09Introduced moviegoers to Pinhead and his Cenobites. Presenting these sinister sorts as an other-
06:14wildly force, after all they do reside in Hell, Clive Barker's directorial debut set these...
06:19Pleasure and pain-obsessed figures up as something totally foreign to the real world, catching many a...
06:24Mara Hound Off Guard, follow up Hellbound Hellraiser 2, opened by surprisingly humanising...
06:29Pinhead. Released just a year after its predecessor, this sequel started by showcasing Pinhead before...
06:34He was Pinhead. Rather than forever being some pseudo-supernatural being that's only ever called the murky...
06:39Depths of Hell home, Hellbound's opening teased that Pinhead was previously a human soldier, who was ultimately...
06:44corrupted by the infamous lament configuration. The film would later identify this man as...
06:49Elliot Spencer, a British army captain during World War 1. And with that Pinhead now had a backstory...
06:54A backstory which itself would be further elaborated on and fleshed out in 1992's Hellraiser...
06:59In fact, that threequel went in the bold direction of utilising Pinhead...
07:04Pinhead and Spencer as two entirely separate entities, who had been unbonded following the events of...
07:09Hellbound's finale. Number 4. Hostel Part 2. Oh Paxton...
07:14Having survived a whole bunch of Achilles slicing, eye-popping, finger chopping antics in 2005's...
07:19Hostel, Jay Hernandez's Paxton had been put through quite the ringer. Of course, such an experience...
07:24will leave one traumatised, and that's clearly the case for our sole hostile survivor by the time we pick things up with...
07:29Him at the start of Hostel Part 2. Living in seclusion with his girlfriend, we find a Paxton who is dealing with...
07:34Severe PTSD. It also doesn't help Hernandez's character that his beau believes he's exaggerating...
07:39His trauma, with her feeling that a Paxton's time in Slovakia can't have been that bad...
07:44And B. There's absolutely zero chance of the nefarious elite hunting group being able to track Paxton down...
07:49How wrong was she? In a jarring move, Hostel Part 2's opening sequence ends with Paxton...
07:54Paxton's girlfriend finding his headless corpse in the pair's kitchen. From there, we see Paxton's decapitated...
07:59He had couriered to the waiting hands of Sasha, the big boss of the aforementioned elite hunting group...
08:04With that, the first Hostel sequel switches its attention to a trio of new female characters...
08:09Who soon find themselves in the sinister clutches of Sasha's organisation.
08:13Number 3
08:14Jason goes to hell the final Friday. With any long-sounding horror franchise that...
08:19Has a particular villain constantly at its core, the big question of any sequel tends to revolve around...
08:24How exactly this bad guy or gal will be brought back after having been stopped at the end of the previous pic...
08:29In the case of Jason goes to hell the final Friday, the big opening moment surprise wasn't how Jason...
08:34Voorhees was resurrected, but more how he was shockingly killed off...
08:37Well, sort of...
08:38Having earned...
08:39Ended Friday the 13th Part 8, Jason takes Manhattan in the form of a young boy following a run...
08:44And then with some New York toxic waste...
08:46Yep, it makes zero sense, just go with it.
08:471993 is the...
08:481993 is the...
08:49Final Friday opens up with Jason very much alive as a hulking adult who's stalking an...
08:54Expecting female in a camp Crystal Lake cabin. While there's zero explanation as to how Jason reverted...
08:59To his adult self and departed the bright lights of New York City following Part 8 even more...
09:04Surprising is how Voorhees is blown to smithereens mere minutes into Jason goes to hell. You see...
09:09The aforementioned unsuspecting female was really an FBI agent who was tasked with luring Jason into...
09:14To an ambush from a SWAT team that shoot the shit out of that serial killer and blow him up.
09:18From here the final...
09:19Final Friday devolved into an odd movie about the spirit of Jason, which looked like a turd, being passed...
09:24From person to person, with the physical form of Voorhees absent for the vast majority of the film.
09:29Number 2. The Grudge 2. Having survived plentiful supernatural chicanes...
09:34In 2004's The Grudge, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen Davis was back for another round...
09:39Of spooky shenanigans for that movie's 2006 follow-up. As The Grudge 2 begins...
09:44To learn that Karen is laid up in a Japanese hospital following the fiery finale of the first film.
09:49When Karen's sister Aubrey heads to Tokyo to retrieve her elder sibling, things immediately take a turn...
09:54For the worst during the picture's opening moments. When Karen panics after seeing the sinister Kayako...
09:59The spirit which plagues her in The Grudge, she bolts from her hospital bed and winds up on the building's roof.
10:04Convince that the visage of Kayako is merely her own mind plane, tricks on her, Sarah Michelle Gellar's character...
10:09Finds out the hard way that that's not the case, with Kayako flinging Karen to her death from the hospital...
10:14Rooftop. In a surprise move, it then becomes clear that The Grudge 2 will instead follow the story of...
10:19Amber Tamblyn's Aubrey, as she takes centre stage and has to deal with her own supernatural chicanery...
10:24In this so-so sequel.
10:26Number 1. Halloween Resurrection
10:29In terms of shocking horror sequel opening, it doesn't get more jarring than seeing the greatest franchise...
10:34protagonist in horror history, being brutally killed off in the first few minutes.
10:38For the off-lumber...
10:39After the off-lumber blasted Halloween Resurrection, that's exactly what it ended up doing.
10:42Picking things up after Laurie Strode had...
10:44Headed Michael Myers after the conclusion of Halloween H2O, Resurrection finds Jamie Lee Curtis's...
10:49Story, locked up in a mental institution.
10:51There, it's detailed how Michael had pulled a switcheroo in...
10:54H2O putting his famed mask on a poor paramedic, who strode then decapitated.
10:58Thus, Laurie...
10:59The story was traumatised and left as an institutionalised mute.
11:02Of course Curtis's character was really playing...
11:04Possum here, for yes, while she was locked up, she was merely biding her time for Michael to come and find her.
11:09In typical Myers fashion, the shape does indeed turn up at the facility housing lorry, with a...
11:14Rooftop battle between the two, actually seeing strode get the better of her long-time rival.
11:18When Laurie...
11:19If she hesitates in killing her then-canon brother, for fear of it being another innocent under the mask, Michael...
11:24Seizes the moment to stab his sibling and throw her body to its death.
11:27And with that, Halloween Resurrection...
11:29As the film then descends into a farce that culminates with Busta Rhymes busting out some cung...
11:34FU moves on Michael Myers.
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