10 Horror Movie Sequels MASSIVELY Better Than The Original

10. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

2003's backwoods hillbilly horror flick Wrong Turn certainly isn't a bad film, yet aside from a few nasty kills fails to distinguish itself much, due to a relatively cliched script and forgettable array of central characters.

Expectations were low, then, for the straight-to-video sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, which actually benefitted tremendously from ditching the original's self-serious tone for an altogether sillier, campier touch.

Directed with energy and charm by Joe Lynch in his filmmaking debut, Wrong Turn 2 manages to not only out-do its predecessor on the gore front but also serves up some worthwhile satire of reality TV alongside a number of memorable characters - best of all Henry Rollins' ex-Marine Dale Murphy.

For a film that most everybody expected to be a cynical cash-in on a moderately successful original movie, it was truly shocking that Wrong Turn 2 proved to be so much more fun than what came before.

Its success on home video, however, led to a glut of four increasingly terrible sequels, before the franchise was finally given a not-bad reboot last year.