10 Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways

10. Jaws: The Revenge

Even as a staunch fan of all four Jaws pictures, your writer here can't honestly claim that Jaws: The Revenge is anything but a dumpster fire of a movie. Still, one thing the film does have going for it, is a rather shocking opening few moments.

With Brody siblings Michael and Sean having taken centre-stage in the Roy Scheider-less Jaws 3-D in 1983, it was only natural to presume that the series would continue to spotlight these brothers as yet another toothy threat reared its head in the fourth Jaws offering.

While Michael and Sean were indeed featured in Jaws: The Revenge, it was only a fleeting appearance for poor Sean. Played by future Doogie Howser, M.D. regular Mitchell Anderson, the younger Brody bro was killed in The Revenge's opening minutes.

Having followed in the footsteps of his father Martin - who had died off-screen due to a heart attack - Sean is a man of the law by the time of Jaws: The Revenge. Sent to clear a log that's blocking a buoy, Anderson's character has his arm bitten off by a great white shark, before this apex predator then drags the screaming Sean to his watery demise.

From here, The Revenge sends Brody family matriarch Ellen to stay with Michael in Barbados... where they are inexplicably stalked by a great white with a personal grudge against the Brody clan.