10 Sequels That Were Nothing Like The First Movie

8. Jason X

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New Line Cinema

The Original:

Capitalizing on the breakout success of Halloween two years earlier, 1980's Friday the 13th sent the slasher boom into overdrive, with the low-budget horror set at an abandoned summer camp earning over a hundred times its budget at the box office.

The Sequel:

The first follow-up introduced the soon-to-be-iconic Jason Voorhees, who repeatedly returned in a series of sequels of wildly inconsistent quality over the course of the next decade. After an eight-year absence from screens, a genius executive must have blurted out 'what if it was the same as all of the other movies... but in space?' and thus, we ended up with Jason X.

We're a far cry from Mrs. Voorhees terrorizing promiscuous teenagers around some log cabins, as her son finds himself trapped on a spaceship in the year 2455. Yes, its just as stupid and ridiculous as it sounds and miles away from the original premise but hey, at least he's keeping the family business alive and well by murdering one-dimensional characters in absurd fashion.

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