12 Movie Sequels That Prove You Should Never Go Back

What It Billed As

More than a decade later, the mother of meta-horrors returns with a vengeance to comment on the recent history of horror movies. All the surviving crew are back, older, wiser... Well, older anyway.

What It Actually Was

Dimension were really confident about Scream 4, commissioning a trilogy before it came out and entirely missing the fact that what they were creating was absolute garbage. It was derivative, convoluted and idiotic and worst of all it was dated almost the minute it came out thanks to an over-reliance on technology gimmicks.

Ghostface remains a great horror movie figure, but having the same core survivors acting like air-heads while a new gaggle of teenagers comes along on a conveyor belt to be killed off was completely tiresome. Unfortunately, the film attempted to reinvent the wheel with a new list of rules (based on inferior horrors that had come out between Scream and 2011) and in doing so lost too much of what made the original so great. It wasn't as smart, it wasn't as bleeding edge and it just wasn't as good.

That this was the last film Wes Craven directed is an absolute bloody travesty.