15 Weird Horror Sequels

George Romero madeDawn of the DeadDawn of the Dead was released in Italy under the nameZombiThis Italian sequel uses that name to link itself to the successful film. Voodoo on a Caribbean island causes the invasion, not space radiation reanimating corpses with a taste for human flesh.

Anne Bowles (Tisa Farrow) heads to Matul after her father's boat brings zombies into New York Harbor. There, she meets more zombies, including one underwater that fights a shark. After surviving attacks on Matul island, Anne and her friend return to New York with a zombie to warn of the coming apocalypse.

There are no trolls inTroll 2. There are only vegetarian goblins feeding people green goo to turn them into plants they can eat. The 1986 movie ties back to this.TrollThe 'Troll' in the name is just a tactic the Italian production team used to promote the movie. The only plot similarity involves strange creatures hunting a family.

The Waits family joins a house swap, giving their home to the Presents family while they go to Nilbog ("goblin" spelled backward). Joshua Waits (Michael Stephenson) visits him before leaving, warning about the vegetarian goblins waiting in Nilbog. He plots to feed them toxic food to make them plants. The rest of the family ignores Joshua's warnings, the citizens' odd behavior, and the grotesque food offered.

The goblins' plot comes out, and the Waits rush home, appearing fine.

Jamie Lee Curtis built part of her scream queen reputation in her role inProm Night, but no one acts as well in the Canadian sequel.

Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) returns to her old high school in 1987 after her death in 1957. She possesses Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon), a student who finds and wears the deceased prom queen's clothes and jewelry. The possessed Vicki confronts and slays the men Mary Lou holds responsible for her death thirty years earlier.

Bill Hinzman, known as the first zombie on screen in George Romero'sNight of the Living Dead, wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this unofficial sequel. Kids partying in the woods near Halloween must fight Hinzman's zombie after a farmer sets him loose by opening his coffin.

The movie focuses on the zombies and their growing numbers hunting prey all night. It ends more bleakly than the original by showing the original zombie surviving.

Shocking Dark is an enigma. It advertised itself to link to James Cameron'sTerminator but its plot follows the story ofAliens. This Italian movie may also use other namesTerminator II, Terminator 2, Aliens 2, Aliennators.andContaminator.It covers all its bases.

Shocking Darkpulls almost its entire plot fromAliens, including scenes and dialogue.Soldiers in Venice go underground. They seek to find out why mutants target human survivors of a seaweed apocalypse. They take a civilian along. The story features a macho female soldier, a company man interested in the creatures' DNA, and creature design that mirrors Xenomorphs.

This British production is a sequel to the 1973 version ofTthe Wicker ManThis sequel shares the director, Robin Hardy. It has a tone similar to the original. The pagan cult uses outsiders to strengthen its bloodlines.

Beth Boothby (Brittania Nicol) and her fiancé Steve Thompson (Henry Garrett) travel to Glasgow as missionaries. They find no success with the population. Sir Lachlan Morrison (Graham McTavish) invites the pair to his village for the May Day celebration. Steve engages in adultery with a villager. He later agrees to be the Laddie to Beth's May Queen for the celebration, sealing their fates. The cult wants the pair for fertility. Ending their lives is the goal.

This unofficial Japanese sequel toPlanet of the Apesis actually several episodes of a television series calledArmy of the Apes (Saru no Gundan) edited together to create a feature-length film. A female scientist and two children accidentally travel to the future where apes rule mankind.

Scientist Kazuko Izumi (Reiko Tokunaga) and children Jiro (Masaaki Kaji) and Yurika (Hiroko Saito) tour the Low Temperature Biochemistry Research Institute. A sudden earthquake knocks the trio into cold sleep containers. They wake up on a planet ruled by apes. They meet another human, Godo (Tetsuya Ushio), and try to find a way home while avoiding the primates' conflicts.

This campy horror movie made in Italy goes by many names: A Bay of Blood, Ecology of Crime, Chain Reaction, Carnage, Twitch of the Death Nerve, A Bay of Blood: Last House on the Left Part II, Last House Part II, New House on the LeftandBlood Bath.Yes, it is a supposed sequel toLast House on the Leftthe revenge horror exploitation movie from Wes Craven released in 1972.

InA Bay of Blood, Frank Ventura (Chris Avram) and Laura (Anna Maria Rosati) plan to buy property around the bay from an unwilling Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda) by persuading her husband to end her. After Count Donati (Giovanni Nuvoletti) fulfills his deal, he is slain. Ventura needs signatures to buy the property. He conspires with the Countess's illegitimate son, Simon (Claudio Volonté), to forge them. The Count's daughter's arrival messes up their plans. Ventura then asks Simon to start getting rid of people in their way.

Also known asHouse III: The Horror ShowLance Henrikson and Brion James star in this film, which started as a sequel toHouseandHouse II: The Second StoryProducers stopped the series. Still, the marketing linked this film to the earlier ones.

Detective Lucas McCarthy (Henrikson) watches Max (James), a serial killer, die from electrocution. McCarthy made a deal with the devil to frame him for the slayings Max committed after McCarthy died. Max's spirit haunts the detective and his family in their new home, hunting new victims and executing his plan to send McCarthy to jail.

This film hails from Spain and Portugal; it also uses the titleThe Night of Blind Terrorand created its own series using parts fromNight of the Living DeadKnights Templar rise from graves as zombies, terrorizing a town and eating the living.

Virginia (María Elena Arpón) leaves her friends Roger (César Burner) and Betty (Lone Fleming) on a train. She finds the zombie knights. Her death and the reanimation push Roger and Betty to hunt down and kill the zombie knights.

This supposed sequel toThe Hills Have Eyesabout a bloodthirsty, inbred, mutant family hunting vacationers. It also uses the titlesThe Hills Have Eyes III, The Hills Still Have EyesorThe OutpostStarring Lance Henrikson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Giovanni Ribisi, this film uses familiar names but lacks links to its predecessor. HBO made this American movie. Stockton (Henrikson) returns to his old job to help former colleagues with an experiment running wild.

The experiment involves Thor (Dan Blom), a man resurrected by the team to create a creature with unnatural strength and endurance. Stockton takes his daughter (Wagner), her boyfriend (John Diehl), and his son (Ribisi) to the underground lab. The group gets trapped in the bunker lab with Thor, who mutates fast, trying to pierce their brains with his fleshy, stabbing tongue.

This 1980 Italian-American "sequel" to Ridley Scott'sAlienalso uses the titleAlien TerrorFilmed in Rome, the movie follows a psychic named Thelma Joyce (Melinda Mayne). She sees people's faces ripped off after a spaceship lands on Earth without a crew. Aliens hatch from glowing blue rocks instead of eggs. Most of the film happens in a cave. As Thelma, her husband, and friends move through the cave, the aliens kill them one by one until only the main characters remain to go back to the city.

When Thelma and her husband return to New York, they find the aliens already dominate their Earth invasion.

Friends explore an abandoned house after a radio message leads them to grisly ends by the ghost ofA little girl.and her clown doll exact vengeance on anyone who enters.

The Italian film used the name.La Casa 3.connecting it to the filmsThe Evil Dead.andEvil Dead II.those movies appeared in Italy under theLa Casa.title. A malevolent spirit possesses people and objects to target them nearby. Ghosthouse has no link toSam Raimi filmsthat came before it.Sam Raimi films.the producers used “La Casa” for

House II: The Second Storyand, the producers used “La Casa” for., which producers planned as House III but scrapped it because it felt too different from other franchise films. This means theLa Casaseries mergesProducers called it "La Casa," which they planned as House III but dropped it because the tone differed from other films in the franchise.La Casa.HouseEvil Dead.Perhaps unsurprisingly,House.AKA

Jaws 5Cruel Jaws.AKAJaws 5.Jawsmade in Italy that shipped directly to home video upon release. Like its inspiration, a small seaside town faces attacks from a giant, man-eating shark, forcing them to stop their regatta and lose money from the event.A sheriff, amusement park owner, and shark expert seek to stop the beast and save the town.Jaws.Jaws made in Italy sent straight to home video upon release. A small seaside town faces shark attacks from a giant, man-eating shark, forcing them to stop their regatta and lose event income.

A sheriff, amusement park owner, and shark expert go to end the beast and save the town.