Hated Horror Sequels You Actually Love

I liked Freddy's revenge and Friday part 5.

Book of Shdows is the Blair Witch Sequel right?

Son of Dracula, 1943 (more accurate to say opinion is completely split on this—it tends to be a love-it-or-hate-it kind of movie, mostly because Chaney is lackluster as the vampire and the plotting rather makes him a dupe. But the atmosphere’s spot-on and the acting’s above-average.)

Son of Frankenstein, 1939 (the spookiest of all the Uni Frankensteins, even if not the best [that’d be Bride, which is not really a horror film at all but, rather, a black comedy]. While James Whale, who helmed Frankenstein and Bride, was one of the greatest of all directors, the underrated Rowland V. Lee, who helmed Son, actually made a genuine horror film, with the Monster as a fairy-tale-esque giant or ogre, used by his conniving “friend,” Béla Lugosi’s loathsome Ygor. And how can you not love a movie with this delightful bit of Transylvaniana—“when the house is filled with dread, place the beds at head to head”?)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, 1943 (slicker and sillier than any of the other Unis, but also atmospheric, fast-paced, and tons of fun. Yes, this is probably the one that, James Whale notwithstanding, changed monster flicks from trying-to-be-spooky to trying-to-be-fun, but no need to judge it on the basis of its progeny. I far prefer this one to the by-the-numbers Ghost of Frankenstein.)

Scars of Dracula, 1970 (cheap and cheap-looking, yet somehow far superior to the [relatively] better-mounted Horror of Dracula, Hammer’s most celebrated horror flick. Dracula actually gets a castle with bats here, Christopher Lee actually gets dialogue and is suitably bloodthirsty, and the movie doesn’t plod along, the bane of most Hammer horrors.)

The Evil of Frankenstein, 1964 (Hammer goes Universal! While the Monster him[it?]self is unimpressive, everything else is good, especially a lovely flashback to Baron Frankenstein’s first creation. The Baron himself is more sympathetic than in most Hammer Frankensteins, but Cushing gets some great, scenery-chewing scenes. And the Castle gets blown up at the end—just like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man! Whoo-hoo!)

Halloween III, 1982 (which is, of course, getting its day in the sun, so it may end up going from underpraised to overpraised. I like it a lot, especially in the way it doesn’t continue the Michael Myers story. And I love the fact that the plot is actually connected to Hallowe’en and Samhain, the origins of the holiday, the lack of which is my biggest criticism of the original.)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Jaws 3-D (1983)

and quite obviously, Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)

All of these seems to be universally "hated" or attacked as some of the most godawful movies ever made, however I have loved them since the first time I saw them and while some of them surely "quality" wise speaking are maybe not all that impressive, they make up for that by delivering so much fun and entertainment that it easily overshadows the negatives.
Season of the Witch, Freddy's Revenge and A New Beginning I guess is partly because they dared to change the already by then tiredsome success routine by trying something new, which sadly did not work for most fans at that time, but I still think they deserved far more credit than they got. People who have never seen Halloween 3, still decides that is is crap, only because it does not star their favorite boogeyman, Myers. 
Season of the Witch is actually the only Halloween movie which I think would scare the living crap out of me, if I ever saw it as kid, the others, well part 1 or 2 maybe a little but after that, no way!.

Agree on The Fly II (1989), that one was good and no way close of being a bad movie. It is just not exactly an easy job to follow such a fantastic movie as the 1986 David Cronenberg classic, but it could have been far worse than what it ended up with.

Also, yes Book of Shadows (2000) was one I enjoyed more than the Blair Witch Project (1999).

While love is too strong of a word for any of these films, I do indeed like these 'hated' sequels:

Psycho III
Jaws The Revenge
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Stepfather II
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
The Ghost Galleon (the third Blind Dead film)
 Leprechaun 3
Creepshow 2
Absurd (Anthropophagus sequel) 
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf
Zombie 4: After Death

I watched The Howling III: The Marsupials recently and enjoyed the shit out of it. Of course, I didn't take it terribly seriously. I was surprised to read after the fact just how little love there is for it out there. 😮

Not sure if this one cuts it as a horror movie, but I mean it is a Troma release, which means it is very close by and there is alot of blood and gore, monsters and so on taking plasce in Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991) and for me, I really liked it, even more than the original which I somehow never loved as much as The Toxic Avenger (1984), but then again I never thought Troma ever quite topped that one, no matter how hard they tried.

Anyway, Subhumanoid Meltdown is pure cheese, but my kind of cheese that is.

i think Friday part 8 would be better if they had told us at the start it would be on the boat for most of it.