I suppose you can find similar phenomena sometimes with, say, iconic action movies that are sorta early in their highly specific subgenre, like Terminator 2 or Aliens.

But it also feels at odds with how genre movie sequels in general are kinda disparaged, like they're always necessarily cheap cash grabs either for highly specific niche audiences or for undiscerning sheeple who will watch anything with a familiar name.

(Not that there aren't _plenty_ of bad sequels to point to, but still.)