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- uniting original actors Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette with new stars including Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega. (en)
- Extreme post-9/11 violence hit its peak with The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel The Hills Have Eyes 2 ; the 2006 Hills Have Eyes was a financial success with 6.4 admissions, (en)
- Adam Wingard directed two films that put postmodern spins on the slasher genre: You're Next and The Guest , (en)
- continued Scream's trend of starring popular actors like Eliza Dushku and Desmond Harrington, but returned to the violent and exploitative approach of films like The Hills Have Eyes and Just Before Dawn . (en)
- and launched a successful series of straight-to-video sequels. (en)
- More traditional slasher movies (en)
- but its perceived as misogynistic violence became controversial and the film failed to catch on with the general public. (en)
- The home invasion slasher (en)
- for a slasher film (en)
- kickstarter-funded sequel Terrifier 2 (en)
- troubled production (en)
- and brought back original stars Vanessa Estelle Williams and Tony Todd. (en)
- making it the most successful horror film since The Silence of the Lambs . (en)
- but it quickly developed a cult following on the home video market which allowed Zombie to make a sequel, The Devil's Rejects . (en)
- The Devil's Rejects was better-received than House of 1000 Corpses (en)
- less than half of what its predecessor had sold just two years earlier. (en)
- the reboot Texas Chainsaw acts as a direct sequel to the 1974 original film, but its lackluster box office profits led to its prequel Leatherface being a direct-to-download release (en)
- to the highest grossing opening weekend of any R-rated film at the time (en)
- but its negative reception hurt its sequel Halloween II (en)
- Coming off the success of the Paranormal Activity and Insidious franchises, Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions began looking into rebooting popular slasher titles with "legacy sequels" that largely ignored the proceeding films in favor of new chapters, though not strict remakes. Blumhouse teamed with popular television showrunner Ryan Murphy to produce a metafictional sequel to The Town That Dreaded Sundown , though (en)
- though poor word-of-mouth prevented it from reaching the heights of the first two Scream films. (en)
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