10 Great Horror Movie Characters Ruined By Terrible Sequels

This one is a bit of an outlier as, for much of The Rage: Carrie 2, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) is actually the best part of it. She's now a school counsellor who's partly overcome her trauma and spends her life trying to help high-schoolers. This was a good direction for the character and Irving gave a very solid performance... and then the movie weightlessly killed her off. 

When protagonist Rachel (Emily Bergl), who's revealed to be Carrie White's secret half-sister and is also telekinetic, goes on her rampage, Sue happens to be on the other side of a door that a spear goes through. Rachel never becomes aware of this and poor Sue is never even mentioned afterwards. 

This was such a flippant way of killing off the only major character from the original film to survive and it was just one of the many issues with a sequel that should never have happened. It actually started life as an original story and was only reworked into a Carrie sequel at the behest of the producers. 

The result of a Frankenstein's Monster of a movie that swings between being a clumsy exploration of important issues and a limp copy-and-paste of the original minus all the pathos. Its commentary on high school misogyny is occasionally interesting, especially in a post-Me Too world, and it's a damn shame it wasn't allowed just to be its own thing instead of being shackled to a horror masterpiece that never, ever needed a sequel.