10 More Horror Movie Sequels That Were Just Too Cruel

The first Unfriended didn't feel like an especially cruel horror film given that almost every single major character was revealed to be a thoroughly unsavoury person, enough to make you root for the vengeful entity picking them off one by one all while they begin turning on one another.

Sequel Unfriended: Dark Web, however, offers up a far more likeable ensemble of characters, enough that the relentlessly brutal manner in which they're dispatched is decidedly tougher to watch.

Basically, it's a lot less fun to watch the victims suffer and die in Dark Web, and as a result it ends up feeling like a far more nihilistic, even mean-spirited piece of work.

Is it effective? To a point absolutely, even if after the more schlocky, guilt-free fun of the first film it shifts into a very different, less purely entertaining gear. 

Somewhat unsurprisingly, this meaner sequel grossed barely a quarter of what its predecessor did at the box office, effectively killing the franchise in the process.