9 Horror Movie Sequels And Reboots Due In 2016

From Amityville to Cloverfield Lane.

Only a pessimist would write off 2016 after 6 weeks, but if you€™re a horror fan, the year€™s highest profile releases don€™t inspire much confidence. Once again, sequels and reboots look set to dominate multiplexes, or if they don€™t float your boat there€™s always an adaptation of Stephen King€™s novel Cell. Yippee. On VOD, things aren€™t much better. Released on 12 February, Travis Zariwny€™s remake of Cabin Fever (2002) currently holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was dismissed by the Los Angeles Times as €œperfunctory and insipid.€ Variety called it a €œrepurposed dud€ while Nick Allen said it was €œone of those questionably greedy, Xeroxed remakes, where its business is in restating, not just restarting or rebooting, what the original has done.€ Nobody believes that these films are going to be good, so pointing out that they€™re not up to much feels like a redundancy. Far more interesting than the pictures themselves are the curious economics behind them: the pulse to prolong a franchise is financial rather than creative so expectations are never high, and when audiences turn up to see how bad the results are, their curiosity is mistaken for enjoyment and helps greenlight another instalment. The following films are perfect examples, ranked according to curiosity.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'