10 Movie Sequels That Changed Their Franchise's Genre

10. Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Horror To Comedy

Joe Dante's 1980's creature feature Gremlins had some people scratching their heads on its primary genre. It was a horror movie, a comedy, and a boy-and-his-dog movie all rolled into one, but people weren't quite sure where to place it in terms of which one of those three it embodied most at the end of the day.

Rest assured though, there was no such confusion with the next film, Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Despite sharing a director with the previous film, they may as well be two completely different movies, with Gremlins 2 being a straight up comedy, as opposed to the comedy tinged horror of the first Gremlins.

Which makes sense, seeing as how once you've seen the Gremlins running around and killing someone in the first movie, the horror tends to wear off, especially in the latter half, when you're wondering how they're going to top catapulting an old lady out of her house via her stair climber (spoilers: they don't).

And once the Gremlins start talking in the second movie, all horror goes out the window as you find yourself morbidly wanting these hilariously dastardly little monsters to wipe out the utter jerks that make up the human cast.

Admit it, you wanted to see them kill Hulk Hogan.