10 Hit Horror Movies That DIDN'T Get Sequels

With a budget of just $4.5 million that went on to draw $255.5 million at the box office, Get Out is arguably the biggest horror hit of the decade. Not only was it a commercial success, but the critics heaped praise after parise upon Jordan Peele’s directorial debut.

Get Out has a very typical structure for a horror film. Our hero is brought to an isolated cabin (or family mansion) in the woods and must eventually survive its horrors and try to escape. But what makes it so different and appealing to a wider audience is, aside from its successful use of humour, is how brazenly it tackles the theme of racism.

Many horror films have used their ghoulies as metaphors for a bigger social commentary, be it mindless consumerism in Dawn of the Dead, or Godzilla destroying Tokyo with the force of a nuclear bomb. There is no such metaphor in Get Out: uur heroes and victims are black and all the white characters are racist and range from totally psychopathic, complicit in the madness, or just casually prejudiced in the case of an early traffic cop.

And this is why the film was such a breath of fresh air on its release and managed to find a huge audience. The film ends with our hero Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) escaping the burning family house, as his wounded girlfriend-turned-captor (Allison Williams) lays in her own blood watching him leave. With both our main hero surviving and our villain not quite dying, the door was certainly left open for Get Out 2.

But what about the many other rich white folk that arrive at the Armitage house for the auction? Unlike the family, the threat of these characters and their desire for black bodies as hosts is still alive and well in the world of Get Out. When the roots of such an insidious evil run so deep, how many sequels would it take for Chris to defeat the foe of white racism? The grim reality is too many to count.