10 Horror Movie Sequels That Don't Fit Their Franchise

2. A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

When Wes Craven first brought Freddy Krueger to life in 1984, New Line Cinema knew they were onto a winner and had a sequel, Freddy's Revenge, released less than a year later in November 1985. However, even before production of Freddy's Revenge began, it was clear the second film in the series was going to have a couple of things different about it.

Both initial scripts for the film, written by Leslie Bohem and David Chaskin, made the drastic decision to introduce a possession-based element to Freddy Krueger's reintroduction, absent from most other entries into the franchise. It's also one of the few Krueger films that original creator Wes Craven straight up rejected.

On top of Krueger's attempted possession of main man Jesse in the film, Freddy's Revenge also stands out in the series for featuring a much darker fedroa-wearing killer and some pretty obvious homoerotic imagery sprinkled in throughout. The wild, outlandish and imaginative dream sequences that would dominate the franchise in the mid '80s are also absent in Freddy's Revenge, instead subbing in a couple of scenes of this finger-knived killer slashing up some teens around a swimming pool. Jason Voorhees really would be proud.