Best Horror Franchise?

[Slap-Happy]

My favorites have been Friday the 13th, Nightmare on elm street, Texas Chainsaw and Evil Dead. I watched all of those series as kid, and I loved them!

What is your favorite horror franchise?

[cqb101]

The best is probably Romero's "Dead" series. Any one of the first 3 films is better than pretty much any film from any of the other franchises listed (with a few exceptions, of course). None of the other franchises have reached the depth and social commentary Romero has achieved over the years. Hell, Night of the Living Dead pretty much invented the zombie genre.


My favorite though? Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I still consider the first film to be one of the best horror films of all time, and it's definitely my favorite. The second is good old campy fun. Bill Mosely as Chop Top is hilarious. Dennis Hopper having a "sword" (using chainsaws, of course) fight with Leatherface? Priceless! The third one has a cannibalistic Viggo Mortensen and the Excalibur chainsaw. And who can forget The Next Generation where Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zelwegger got their start. Even the remakes are awesome.

So, yea, I voted for Romero's Dead series as the best, but TCM is definitely my favorite.

[Slap-Happy]

I effin' LOVE TCM2. That movie is awesome!

[Brodie]

I hold a special place in my heart for the Child's Play series. It shows a lot of care/dedication for Don Mancini to write all of the films, and direct Seed. But the second is still one of my all time favorite films.


Also, F13 and NOES aren't really amazing films....but have a real staying power. There's something likable about Jason and Freddy that some of those films get right.

[That Matt Guy]

My favorite though? Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I still consider the first film to be one of the best horror films of all time, and it's definitely my favorite. The second is good old campy fun. Bill Mosely as Chop Top is hilarious. Dennis Hopper having a "sword" (using chainsaws, of course) fight with Leatherface? Priceless! The third one has a cannibalistic Viggo Mortensen and the Excalibur chainsaw. And who can forget The Next Generation where Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zelwegger got their start. Even the remakes are awesome.

Pretty much summed it up for me. TCM 2 is one of my favorite movies.

[cqb101]

Looking at the poll itself again, it's kind of wack. How can you have Hostel (which is only 2 films-hardly a franchise) or Evil Dead and Scream (just trilogies...again, not really a franchise) and leave off some of the old Universal Horror franchises? Or some Hammer horror? Or where are the Alien movies? They're just as much horror as they are sci-fi. Considering there are options on that poll that only have 3 or 4 movies, where's Sleepaway Camp? Hell, even Predator?

[Brodie]

Oh man....Sleepaway Camp. I'd vote for that like 9 times.

[Spitfire]

I can't vote on this. The main reason for me is while the first one or two movies in a series might be good the rest are usually horrid, and not in a good way. I also don't count Evil Dead as horror because I always viewed it as a parody, that's what I would vote for.

[Brodie]

They arent a parody. its horror comedy. Thats a genre.

[Slap-Happy]

I thought I put Sleepaway on there.

[Ninjinister]

Are these all just American-based ones? I don't see any that were foreign made, unless there's one or two that I'm mistaken on the origins of on that list.

[Slap-Happy]

Hellraiser was made in the UK and released in America.

[cqb101]

Hellraiser was made in the UK and released in America.

That doesn't make it a foreign franchise.

[Slap-Happy]

New poll with With Sleepaway Camp, Predator, Jaws, and Leprechaun.

[Slap-Happy]

But the second is still one of my all time favorite films.

Why the second one?

[Brodie]

I feel like the second one had just the right tone necessary for a movie about a killer doll. It was funny, without being overly dumb, or silly. Chucky was still scary when he needed to be, but he had charisma, which he didn't have much of in the first. Like, you couldn't really hate the doll in CP2, because he came off as just a normal guy...a normal guy in a doll body who wanted out.

Its a great sequel to the first movie...the third was rushed and wasn't very well done. Mancini himself doesn't really like it.

CP2 defined Chucky as a horror icon for me, and made him a character I could have a vested interest in later on.

[Slap-Happy]

He was just kind like "Get me the f**k out of here."

[Brodie]

.....Maybe a little bit more than that...

[Slap-Happy]

He just used knives and other weapons to get his point across.

[Brodie]

Maybe you should rewatch it. And with what you just said....how is that any different than Jason or Mike Meyers?

[Slap-Happy]

I haven't seen it in a while. But I think the first and second are the best. BOC wasn't to good, neither was SOC.

[Cipher]

As films? Romero's Dead series by far. Dawn of the Dead is fun, and a fantastic movie. Even Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead were a good time, if heavy-handed.

For a guilty pleasure? The Evil Dead trilogy. And cheesiness be damned, the first one's actually pretty scary.

[cowabunga14]

I went with Evil Dead.

[The Stryker]

I love all of the Nightmare movies to death.