7) Alien vs. Predator
Previous movie(s):
The two franchises that collide in Alien Vs Predator didn’t leave off at particularly glorious moments before the 2004 movie, but the series still bore between them three stone-cold classics (Alien, Aliens and Predator). This was enough to generate excitement for a new film that combined both Xenomorph and Predator.
The sequel:
No Alien movies for seven years. No Predator movies for 13 years. The anticipation, surely, was high for Paul WS Anderson’s Alien vs. Predator, though perhaps it shouldn’t have been considering Alien Vs Predator was preceded by the words Paul WS Anderson’s. The film turned out to be a complete bomb, with none of the invention or intelligence that the two individual franchises had even on their worst days.