10 Most Insulting Movie Sequels Ever

10. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

If a horror franchise survives long enough, you can be sure every iteration will have its own defenders. Some fans love former Rorschach Jackie Earle Haley’s interpretation of Freddy Krueger as a grim, unsmiling presence; some refuse to acknowledge any Freddy not played by horror icon Robert Englund.

Despite this discord, every once in a while, a sequel comes through which unites every warring fandom faction in their absolute disgust, and the sixth instalment of the phenomenally popular Nightmare on Elm Street series did just that. Where to start with this one—the inexplicable Roseanne cameo? The Goo Goo Dolls’ theme song? The Power Glove product placement?!

No scene better encapsulates the derided fifth sequel better than the sight of Springwood’s adults losing their marbles, reacting to the wholesale death of the town’s adolescent population by… riding around in bumper cars and rewriting history books so they star the titular menace. Mercifully the title was as misjudged as the rest of this movie, and the next sequel managed to pull the franchise out of the doldrums with an injection of meta-horror in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.