20 Awesome Horror Movies That Never Got Sequels

David Cronenberg's Videodrome was one of the most acclaimed and controversial horror films of the 1980s, and you'd probably be forgiven for assuming it had two or three direct-to-video sequels produced without Cronenberg, as was basically expected during the home video boom period.

But Videodrome is a gloriously unhinged one-off, and honestly, considering the film's unforgettable yet ambiguous ending, it's tough to imagine what a sequel would even look like.

Cronenberg himself had no interest in producing a follow-up, and it likely helped his case that Videodrome wasn't a box office success anyway, only later finding modest success on home video and establishing itself as a cult classic.

Though we've seen no official continuation of Videodrome, it's often said that his 1999 film Existenz is a spiritual successor, focused instead on the world of video games. This further tracks given that Existenz was also Cronenberg's first original script since Videodrome.

But clearly, Videodrome is a film that made its point abundantly clear the first time and absolutely didn't need a sequel.