10 Hit Horror Movies That DIDN'T Get Sequels

10. The Cabin In The Woods (2012)

We begin with a film that did for cabin-in-the-woods style horrors what Scream did for slashers, and then some. Grossing $66.5 million from a $30 million budget and receiving huge critical acclaim, this irreverent parody of a horror sub-genre has enough scares and gags for mainstream moviegoers, whilst keeping the horror buffs satiated with its metafictive allusions to other horror movies and, further still, what horror movies are in our society.

After arriving in a cabin in the woods a group of teens are attacked by Evil Dead-esque ghouls, before it is revealed that beneath the cabin is an underground facility that houses an entire zoo of movie monsters. These monsters are used in other recognisable horror movie locales to sacrifice teenagers and appease the evil Gods “The Ancient Ones”, a.k.a. us the viewers.

It’s a clever and incredibly fun premise and it opens up a huge world of monsters and Gods and in terms of franchising, you could parody so many subgenres in a similar way - The Haunted Mansion, The Murderous Inbred Family, The Torture Porn Dungeon. But whether you could say anything more about the function of horror movies that isn’t already said by Joss Whedon in this original is doubtful. Even worse would be unleashing a slew of Epic Movie style sequels.

Whedon must have known this himself. To make sure there would be no sequel or franchising of the film, it ends with a gigantic monstrous hand destroying the entire world. Fair enough, Joss.