10 Horror Movie Sequels That Took Risks... And Failed

1997's Cube is an awesome Canadian Squid Game-esque horror flick which unfolds in a prison made up of cubical rooms, each containing its own death trap. This was an amazing premise, and Cube largely does it justice, resulting in one of the finest Western horror flicks of the 1990s. As for the 2002 sequel, though? The less said, the better.

What's frustrating here is that, on paper, this sequel does do what a follow-up should, in that it evolves upon the original film. The trouble is, it goes about it the wrong way. Cube 2: Hypercube features another cubical prison, but this time around, there aren't any physical traps. Rather, the cube plays around with time and space, adding in things like copies of people, time-dilation, time-travel, and more. 

Hypercube jettisons the formula of the original while presenting nothing compelling or exciting in its place, to the point where many viewers probably wished it had just been a lazier, more familiar sequel. 

The physical traps were far more suspenseful and fun; all this timey-wimey nonsense renders the movie a confusing, tension-free mess that never establishes any coherent rules and feels like an F-tier episode of Doctor Who more than anything else. It's telling that Cube 0, a prequel released two years later, returned to the physical traps. Those were more entertaining in every sense.