Sequels, no matter their genre, are very often taken with a grain of salt—normally because they are often products of blockbuster IP franchises just churning out content to make millions, sometimes billions, of dollars every single year. But the horror genre was one of the first sectors of Hollywood to implement a sequel, and you can trace that all the way back to 1935 when Universal Pictures put out The Bride of Frankenstein. But horror sequels outside of the Dracula and Frankenstein franchises were rare, at least up until the 1970s when George A. Romero began making follow-ups to his groundbreaking film Night of the Living Dead. To find the best horror movie sequels ever, you'll have to comb through nearly a century of material.
But even then, horror sequels became standard in the 1980s, when franchises like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street figured out that, if you churn out a new chapter every single year, folks will pack the theaters for every single one. A
