What is the worst sequel ever made? (Has to be #2 in a series) [View All]

If we're talkin' about the worst, there should be criteria:

1. Its antecedent had to have been reasonably good. (There's no point in choosing, say, Leprechaun 2, fer cryin' out loud.)

2. This sequel has to be so wretched--or offers a revelation so inane--that it undermines, or destroys, the impact of the original for the viewer.


My pick...Halloween II. Whereas the original played like something out of the Brothers Grimm, brilliantly framed in an unnerving world of light and shadow, the sequel was purely and simply slasher...and a rather mean-spirited one at that. (I could have done without the image of that boy who had bitten into the razor-blade apple, or the half-naked woman who had her face scalded in a hot tub.) Worse, we find out that the villain, whom we accepted as Evil Incarnate, actually had a motivation, reducing him to a psycho with family issues. Terrible.


So what is it? The Exorcist 2? Highlander 2?