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For Your Consideration: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Scream series perfected the horror sequel years before Final Destination: Bloodlines

Whether perfecting the formula, subverting it, or simply ignoring it, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Scream 2, and Halloween III are some of the greatest horror sequels ever made

Features by Graeme McMillan, Editor

Published on Wed May 14 2025

For all that the horror genre is filled with long-running series with recurring monsters and slashers and assorted ne’er-do-wells, there’s a secret truth at the heart of the genre: it’s actually tricky to do a successful sequel to a horror classic — one that doesn’t just repeat the formula (and the scares!) of earlier successes, but instead builds into something good in its own right. As Final Destination — a movie where the formula requires the deaths to be new and over the top each time — comes back to theaters, we’ve been thinking about great horror movie sequels a lot. And so, for your consideration, monster lovers: here are some of our favorites.

This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly, there’s too much out there to have time to

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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.