10 Movie Sequels That Changed Their Franchise's Genre

Essentially a Groundhog Day but with murder, the first Happy Death Day was a fun, genuinely frightening at time, horror movie about a spoiled preppy college student reliving being the first girl murdered by a psychotic serial killer over and over again, having to figure out how to save not only herself, but all of her friends. Because, as Edge Of Tomorrow proved, nothing improves a person's character quite like being brutally slaughtered over and over and over again.

However, this is not a gimmick that lends itself well to a sequel, at least not in terms of a horror movie. Fortunately, happy Death Day 2U realizes this, and runs with it. As such, the sequel turns into a mind bending sci-fi adventure movie, where our heroine traps herself in different dimensional versions of the same event from the first movie. Thus making the identity of the killer different every time, alongside a ton of other changes that only snowball the more she dimension hops.

it's definitely surreal to see a horror movie jump into a completely different genre by essentially taking its core concept and rolling it down a snowy hill to see how big it gets before it gloriously explodes at the bottom. But we're sure as hell not complaining.