10 Horror Sequels Not Worth Waiting Decades For

Apart from the title and a "based on characters created by John Landis" credit, 1997's An American Werewolf in Paris has basically no connection to its sixteen years earlier London-set predecessor.

Every other film on this list has at least a director, cast member or even character in common. This, however, is just the same broad outline of "American tourist becomes a werewolf, causing chaos in a European capital" and that's about it.

The relatively simple plot of the original is transformed into a ludicrous narrative involving werewolf societies luring victims to Parisian nightclubs and a scene in which the hero bunjee jumps off the Eiffel Tower to save a suicidal woman from diving to her death. (That woman turns out to be a far too good for this rubbish Julie Delpy, ostensibly playing the daughter of David Naughton and Jenny Agutter from the original movie, although this doesn't really play any part in the story).

Despite its inherent silliness, An American Werewolf In Paris is far less funny than its pointedly darkly comic predecessor, which was a film of genuine wit, but it also fails to pull off any of An American Werewolf In London's genuine darkness or have anything approaching the random horror of its Nazi stormtrooper dream sequence.

Worst of all, given that it had a whole sixteen years of developments in visual effects to lean on, this movie has none of the amazing werewolf transformation effects and practical makeup that made the first film so memorable. Instead all we're left with is unconvincing and unreal CGI.