10 Upcoming Movie Sequels Everyone Will Ignore
8. Lights Out 2
It’s always interesting to see which horror films get Oscar nominations and 2018 has two – Get Out and The Shape Of Water (three if you include The Boss Baby). The problem is that whenever genre films become successful it opens the door to sequels and clones, aided by the fact that horror films are cheaper to make than, say, sci-fi movies or superhero epics.
A generic PG-13 horror that bore a passing resemblance to Darkness Falls (2003), 2016's Lights Out seemed to be competing for some kind of award for the amount of horror cliches it recycled. There were troubled kids, imaginary friends and a supernatural being that tied in to the heroine's troubled past, but you'd seen it all before.
The movie made $148 million so a sequel is on the way, but as with the sequels to The Gallows and Unfriended, details are thin on the ground. No, that's not a good sign.