12 Horror Movies That Deserved Sequels

After announcing himself to horror audiences worldwide with his 2009 cult splatter movie Dead Snow, Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola got his first stab at the mainstream with this oddball update of the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, based around the notion that, after killing the witch who abducted them as infants, the siblings grew up to hunt and kill witches for a living.

Its anachronistic dialogue, accents and weaponry seemed to rub some viewers up the wrong way, and judging by their performances it's questionable whether Jeremy Renner or Gemma Arterton really wanted to be there.

Even so, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is heaps of gory fun, and refreshingly light-hearted in an era when so much horror seems to be playing things a bit too straight.

There was talk of a sequel before the film even opened, but its patchy box office record - $226 million worldwide, but only $55 million of that from the US - cast a question mark over things. After a lot of on-again/off-again reports, Tommy Wirkola stepped away from the sequel in September 2014, and the project seemed to die out altogether not long thereafter.

There has also been talk of a potential TV spin-off series, but this too has failed to gain momentum thus far. A shame, as it's clearly a concept that lends itself to an ongoing format.