Halloween is one of, if not the best horror films in modern cinematic history. John Carpenter's faceless killer is the benchmark that all other slashers aspire to.

If Psycho is the model for the perfect horror film, Halloween is the model for the slasher film. However, it has since been buried under nine sequels which includes two remakes by Rob Zombie.

One Halloween was enough to show this masterpiece. One of the more recent ones even had Busta Rhymes in it. That's almost as bad putting William Shatner in an American Psycho film.

3. Jaws:

Jaws, like Halloween, changed the face of modern horror. It has always been classed as the film which made people scared to go in the sea.

It changed the face of the modern blockbuster as well. Jaws is as iconic as any modern film gets. Not a single sequel was needed. Everybody knows Jaws, nobody needs to know about the rest.

2. Disney Sequels:

It would only make this list longer if we had to separate each and every pointless money-grabbing sequel that Disney has churned out we thought it would easiest to tell you the worst offenders here, no explanation is needed, you just know that the originals are the ones you want to see.

There was Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, Lion King 2, Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World, Mulan 2, Bambi 2, Tarzan 2 and The Little Mermaid 2 make up a huge list which all but ruin any parents bank account when the kids need the entire collection.

1. Batman 3 and 4:

The less said about these two sequels the better. Tim Burton brought to life the dark world of Batman with a gothic take on the Gotham City vigilante. Michael Keaton donned the cape for two films and those two films proved both commercially and critically successful.

Some years down the line, Joel Schumacher took the reigns and he threw neon all over the place, camped the place up and got the actors to ham themselves up to the limit. Batman Forever was the stumble before the fall that was Batman and Robin.

Arnold Schwarzenegger must have fit more ice-based one liners into this film than he had hot meals during production.

It's taken a long time to get over it and only since Christopher Nolan made Batman Begins and The Dark Knight has anyone started to breathe easy.

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