10 Ridiculously Awful Sequels To Classic Movies You Didn't Know Existed

6. Lost Boys: The Tribe

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Say what you will about Joel Schumacher, but the guy knew how to make a vampire movie. Long before the Twilights and Blades - and even Interview With a Vampire - there was The Lost Boys, a movie thick with teenage angst, creepy settings, and blood. So much blood.

Sure, the plot is scarily thin and some of the dialogue is so obvious that you have to wonder if the actors mistakenly read the stage directions aloud and the editor was too drunk to know the difference, but The Lost Boys is a hearty mix of satire and scares that has aged like a fine merlot.

The same probably can't be said for its sequel, The Tribe, which presents another stake-by-numbers run through of the genre's most overused beats.

The filmmakers did everything in their power to trick audiences into believing they would get another campy blood-fest that might reinvigorate the stagnant genre - bringing back Corey Feldman (and Corey Haim in a post-credits sequence that's better than the entire movie that came before it), hiring Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother, reciting every famous quote from the original - but none of it works. At all.

It's earned the dreaded 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is every bit deserving of it. Yet, against all logic and good taste, they made another sequel two years later, which was somehow even worse. Oof.

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