We're #2! 20 Horror Movie Sequels (Arguably) Better Than the Originals

From the shocking opening scene, this sequel to the landmark slasher delivers everything we loved about the first -- big-time kills, big-time T&A -- but with an even scarier villain: a sack-headed Jason Vorhees making his homicidal debut in place of his vengeful mom.

As good as Alien is, everything about Aliens is bigger, badder and bolder: from multiple aliens to the in-your-face Marines with high-powered machine guns to the final epic battle with the alien queen. Game over, man!

While not markedly superior to the original Creepshow, this second installment holds its own, with intriguing stories from Stephen King and George Romero, featuring a living statue, an undead hitchhiker and what appears to be the son of The Blob.

Essentially a remake of the first film with a bigger budget and a bigger sense of humor, Evil Dead 2 scores on both counts, delivering a madcap splatter-fest that's won a whole new legion of fans.

I have yet to find out what Ghoulies did to deserve a sequel, but the second film -- in which the diminutive demons take residence in a traveling carnival's haunted house ride -- improves on the original in every way. Not that Ghoulies II is anything great, but it provides some fun moments, like a straight razor-wielding ghoulie making cat noises to attract a woman looking for her lost kitty.

While the original was confined largely to one house, Hellbound, as the title implies, takes us to the hellish domain of Pinhead and the Cenobites, the bigger scale providing an excuse for trippy, Nightmare on Elm Street-ish visuals in what could be the best installment of the series.

This overlooked sequel came a full nine years after the first and pumped up the action, the acting, the budget and the coherence, making for not only a more accessible film but a better one as well.

Whereas Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is corny and only sporadically funny, Return of the Killer Tomatoes is corny and semi-regularly funny. That's better, right?

Troll 2 is the only sequel on this list that's better than the original because it's so much worse than the original. The list of things wrong with this now-infamous cult film is endless -- from the horrendous acting to the amateurish costumes to the nonsensical plot to the fact that there aren't even trolls in the movie! (That's because it wasn't made to be a sequel, but rather a separate movie called Goblins.) Bad-tastic!

It might not be a direct sequel to the movie Maneater so much as an adaptation of the book that's the sequel to the book that Maneater was based on, Red Dragon -- not to be confused with the movie Red Dragon, which is either a remake of Maneater or a prequel to the Silence of the Lamb and its sequels...Where was I? Oh yeah; it's, like, good and stuff.