10 Horror Sequels Not Worth Waiting Decades For

Getting nostalgically referenced these days in everything from Jordan Peele's Us to IT: Chapter Two, The Lost Boys is peak 80s vampire cheese: a slick, fun slice of pure style and entertainment, full of mulleted beachfront vampires, which is nothing if not very of its time. So, of course what this 1987 fan favourite really needed was a cheap, style-free sequel 21 years later.

Originally written as a script about surfing werewolves, studio Warner Bros. rejected The Tribe for being a Lost Boys knock-off before realising that a cheap knock-off was exactly the sort of thing that could be retooled into a cash-in belated sequel instead.

It's really not a good sign that The Tribe could only secure the services of one Corey (Feldman, with a tiny mid-credits cameo for Haim) in an era when they were hardly in demand. There is a Sutherland, but in place of Kiefer it's his half-brother Angus Sutherland.

And that is symptomatic of the movie as a whole, its approach being always to settle for something vaguely reminiscent of its equivalent in the original, rather than do anything new.

Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher gets a lot of flack for his style-over-substance approach to filmmaking (especially when he brought that approach to Batman), but he undoubtedly knows how to make a sleek, cool-looking movie. From Dusk Till Dawn 3 and The Tribe director PJ Pesce, however, only knows how to remind people of how much better the earlier movie was.