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Nowadays there would be a sequel (Spoiler warning)

posted 11 years ago by SoapWatch
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Considering the ending, obviously there was more story to tell.

Back then sequels weren't made often as they are today.

Considering it wasn't a box office success, a sequel was probably never considered.

The only way a sequel could have worked, even semi successfully, was to be more creative with the next set of killings ... but how could they top killing off a baby?

Another set of twins?

Possibly had they used the same set of twin actors perhaps 5 years later in 1977 showing what they were like a little older.

However, by then we had "The Omen".

[–] ElectricWarlock 11 years ago

It would probably be a slasher film with Holland as a teenager in high school who believes the voice of his dead brother Holland is directing him to kill certain people.

Death lives in the Vault of Horror!

[–] jwalsh67 11 years ago

A sequel to "The Other" would have to deviate from the novel, because at the end of the novel, Niles is an adult at an institution where he has been an in-patient since the final events of "The Other".

He who conquers himself is mightier than he who conquers a city.