And Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Scream is very clearly maintaining the existing continuity given all of the returning characters.
David Gordon Green’s Halloween isn’t a second attempt at a franchise re-do following Rob Zombie’s duology, but instead a direct sequel to Carpenter’s original.
The reason they are particularly bad is because they also have the side effect of totally misrepresenting what the movies actually are.
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing isn’t another take on Christian Nyby’s The Thing From Another World, but instead a carefully orchestrated prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic.