10 Movie Sequels That'll Definitely Make You Angry

10. American Psycho II: All American Girl

Love them or hate them, it’s hard to deny that Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel American Psycho, as well as Mary Harron's faithful but toned down 2000 cinematic adaption, were about more than extreme violence.

Rather, their vulgar and excessive voyages into the life of murderous playboy Patrick Bateman were meant as a satirical dissection of the triviality, misogyny, jealousy, and ultimate emptiness of 1980s American yuppie culture. Above all else, the narratives' main ambiguity – whether or not Bateman actually commits the torture and murders – were important aspects of their social commentary.

Flash-forward to 2002’s American Psycho II: All American Girl, a movie that (like many terrible sequels) wasn’t initially meant to be a follow-up at all. At the last minute, however, the creators decided to connect its cliché tale (about a college student killing off classmates and professors) to Harron’s film by making said student – Mila Kunis’ Rachael Newman – a surviving victim of Bateman’s spree.

In doing so, they retroactively remove the original’s purposeful vagueness in favour of making a quick buck with a shoddily executed travesty. Unsurprisingly, Ellis and Kunis have denounced it in subsequent years. At least it has some campy William Shatner fun, though, right?