10 Great Horror Movie Characters Ruined By Terrible Sequels

And finally, Michael Myers - he's one of the greatest horror movie villains there will ever be, a simple yet devastatingly effective representation of pure, unstoppable evil. At least, that's what he is in the few good Halloween movies. Unfortunately, poor Michael has been undermined or outright ruined so, so many times throughout this troubled franchise. 

Halloween II (1981) introduced that dumb twist that he and Final Girl Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) were siblings, although it at least tried to kill him off definitively. Halloween 4 proceeded to resurrect him and made him overpowered instead of a grounded force of evil. Halloween 6 ruined the mystery of the character by having him be under the control of some ridiculous cult, rather than leaving his motives ambiguous. 

Halloween: Resurrection featured the rapper Busta Rhymes karate-kicking Michael out of a window while yelling "Trick or treat, motherf**ker!" thus turning a once-terrifying character into a complete joke. Rob Zombie's Halloween remake isn't as bad as people say, but it did miss the point (again!) by giving Michael a detailed backstory involving an abusive family. And finally, in Zombie's ill-judged 2009 sequel to his remake, Michael spent most of the film with his mask off having all these weird visions of his dead mother with a white horse. Huh?!

Thankfully, Michael was scary again in David Gordon Green's recent trilogy and he was given a definitive ending. Hopefully, he'll be allowed to stay dead at last, but that seems unlikely.