Finney talks on a payphone with the Grabber watches in Black Phone 2 - Universal Pictures Horror is a genre that thrives on sequels. It seems almost inevitable for a horror film to get a sequel or two, so much so that some fans were recently asking if a ...

Along with “M3GAN 2.0,” the horror titles that premiered in 2025 and made the chart are “Bring Her Back” at No. 3, “28 Years Later” at No. 4 and “Sinners” at No. 8. And besides “Scream,” the only chart titles that premiered before the last decade are 1962’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” at No. 5 and 1990’s “Tremors” at No. 7.

But original director Scott Derrickson opted to vacate the director's chair for Sinister 2, subbing in Irish filmmaker Ciarán Foy (Citadel) instead, quite predictably resulting in an inferior sequel which was largely panned by critics.