10 Horror Movie Sequels That Don't Fit Their Franchise

One of the absolute slasher classics, Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre is infamous, influential and a cinema great. Hooper produced the original film on a budget of just $140,000 ($700,000 if adjusted for inflation) but, despite some pretty hellish circumstances to work in, turned in an initial profit of $30 million ($150.8 million in modern rates), and catapulted the Leatherface and his Sawyer family to the front of everyone's attention in 1974.

Since then, the series has mainly been a cash-grab for whoever has owned the rights, with several remakes, reboots, prequels, fresh universes and different backstorys all churned out over the years, all of which follow pretty much the same formula as the first film.

One film that has consistently been overlooked however is Tobe Hooper's initial follow up to the first film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, released in 1986. Whilst Leatherface and Jim Siedow's Drayton Sawyer both return in the film, Texas Chainsaw 2 really is nothing like any other film in the franchise. Tobe Hooper decided that he wanted to focus much more on black comedy than outright horror, and the film is constantly flying from one bizarre scene to another. The poster for the film is even a photo of the Sawyer family recreating the iconic Breakfast Club pose.