10 Horror Sequels That Turned The Villain Into A Hero

Now, just because a sequel attempts to reinvent a prior villain as a hero, that doesn't mean that audiences en masse are actually going to accept it, and there's no better recent example of this than Don't Breathe 2.

While the original film initially depicted blind burglary victim Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang) as sympathetic, this largely evaporated once it was revealed that he kidnapped the woman who killed his young daughter in a car accident, chained her up in his basement, and forcibly impregnated her to "replace" the child he lost.

In the sequel, however, Norman is reimagined as a protector-type character who takes on a gang of even worse folk who are planning to kidnap his adopted daughter Phoenix (Madelyn Grace). Yet audiences couldn't so easily forget Norman's horrible actions in the first picture, and so no matter how hard he fought to protect Phoenix in the sequel, his "heroic" rehabilitation ended up falling rather flat despite the filmmakers' efforts.