In sequels, no one can hear you scream: Ah, when sequels attack. We know our hopes are going to be cruelly dashed, yet we still shuffle off to the bad-seed spawn of perfectly good movies because just maybe this one will be that grail: The sequel worthy of its parent.

Your Scream Queen says the No. 1 sequel is “Aliens.” That shriek you just heard was from every “Alien” die-hard who felt betrayed when its sequel traded the original’s exquisite moodiness and intelligent treatment of its audience for a triple helping of action/adventure.

I like action/adventure, and “Aliens” is loaded with it.

Most sequels are merely inferior or just lean toward the smelly side of mediocre. I’m thinking “Halloween 2,” “Poltergeist 2,” “Aliens 3” and “The Ring 2.”

But so many are truly heinous, and not in a good way. Here are the worst of the ones I’ve seen; I’ve managed to avoid dozens.

1. “Exorcist 2: The Heretic

The prequels “Exorcist: The Beginning” and especially “Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist” were also a travesty.

2. “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2”

A close second to my No. 1 choice.

3. “Jaws 4: The Revenge”

As in, Montezuma’s.

4. “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge”

What I call a “take the money and run” movie.

5. “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch”

6. “Hellraiser: Bloodline”

7. “Friday the 13th Part Pretty Much All of Them”

8. “Child’s Play 3”

Chucky goes to military school? Hooyah hooey.

9. “Poltergeist III”

Unfortunately, she’s ba-ack.”

10. “Omen IV: The Awakening”

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