With a lot of movie franchises, fans tend to feel that the original film is the best , yet that's not always the case, especially in the horror genre. Though it is tough to match the scares of the first film, like with The Exorcist or the Scream franchise , some sequels manage to pull off the unlikely and exceed them.

There are also some film series that are hard to fully gauge since the genre tends to shift. For example, Alien is a horror movie, and while many believe the sequel, Aliens , is better , that's more of an action flick than something designed to terrify.

It's actually more common now than it was in the '80s and '90s for a horror sequel to surpass the original. Several follow-up films, whether the second installment or later, have been great, and it has only mad

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