9 Terrible Franchise Killing Movies

With Jaws, Steven Spielberg created one of the greatest thrillers of all time; a superbly made, impeccably cast movie that invented the summer blockbuster. Somehow it also inspired Jaws: The Revenge, which is considered one of the worst movies ever and is regularly a punch line when it comes to people talking about terrible sequels.  

It’s not hard to see why since the story is kind of insane, even for a movie about a killer shark; this particular shark is targeting one specific family, and the mother seems to have a psychic connection with it. The shark is also made of rubber; the machinery that operates it is blatantly visible on camera in key shots and it roars like a lion, despite sharks not having vocal cords.

Needless to say, the reviews for the movie weren’t kind, and no other sequels were made, though they apparently flirted with the idea of bringing back Richard Dreyfuss for another round during the nineties. 

Rumour has it Spielberg hated The Revenge so much he refused to let Universal package it in the same boxset as his movie, which is why the Jaws sequels are packaged separately from the original.