10 Horror Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways
2. The Grudge 2
Having survived plentiful supernatural chicanery in 2004's The Grudge, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen Davis was back for another round of spooky shenanigans for that movie's 2006 follow-up.
As The Grudge 2 begins, we come to learn that Karen is laid up in a Japanese hospital following the fiery finale of the first film. When Karen's sister Aubrey heads to Tokyo to retrieve her elder sibling, things immediately take a turn for the worse during the picture's opening moments.
When Karen panics after seeing the sinister Kayako spirit which plagued her in The Grudge, she bolts from her hospital bed and winds up on the building's roof. Convinced that the visage of Kayako is merely her own mind playing tricks on her, SMG's character finds out the hard way that that's not the case, with Kayako flinging Karen to her death from the hospital rooftop.
In a surprise move, it then becomes clear that The Grudge 2 will instead follow the story of Amber Tamblyn's Aubrey as she takes centre-stage and has to deal with her own supernatural chicanery in this so-so sequel.