10 More Horror Movie Sequels That Were Just Too Cruel

There are many ways that a horror sequel can attempt to one-up the original, by working with a bigger budget, raising the stakes, upping the gore, and so on.

And sometime filmmakers will instead opt to crank the cruelty to 11, in turn testing the fanbase's appetite for unrelenting nastiness.

It can certainly work depending on how it's implemented, though there are also times where it can be so offputtingly mean-spirited that it risks turning off all but the most die-hard of fans.

And so, as a sequel to our previous article on the very subject, here are 10 more horror movie sequels that were just too damn cruel.

Regardless of whether these movies were actually any good - most of them are a mixed bag, honestly - each challenged the audience's capacity to watch people get put through the wringer, often without a cathartic payoff.

These are all feel-bad movies designed to leave you feeling bummed out as the end credits roll, and whether that's a good thing or not remains a major bone of contention among viewers. 

Either way, just make sure you've got something light and frothy lined up to watch afterwards...

Despite serving as a sequel to Prometheus, Alien: Covenant basically disregarded the end of that movie, where surviving hero Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) departed in search of the Engineer homeworld with the remnants of android David (Michael Fassbender) in tow.

But when we reconvene with David in the sequel, he reveals to the crew of the Covenant that Shaw died when their ship crash-landed on Planet 4. 

However, in the third act it's revealed that David killed and experimented upon Shaw, her mutilated remains being discovered in his crude lab.

For anyone who bought into what Prometheus was promising, this was a massive bummer, and one that's never really been sufficiently explained production-wise. 

Given that Rapace did reprise the role of Shaw in a pre-release prologue video for the movie, why didn't she have a role in the actual movie itself?

But that's hardly the end of the cruelty. Alien: Covenant of course ends with David switching places with his android "brother" Walter and tricking Daniels (Katherine Waterston) and Tennessee (Danny McBride) into entering cryosleep, the implication being that they and the other sleeping colonists will become his next experiments.

As Covenant underperformed at the box office and the decidedly more successful Alien: Romulus has branched off in another direction entirely, it seems unlikely we'll ever see David get his comeuppance. He won.