Best Horror Movie Franchise?

[LostInAnomie]

Poll question: Best Horror Movie Franchise?

[charlie and algernon]

1. where's Halloween?

Halloween 1 is classic and I'd take Halloween 4 and 5 over most original horror movies made today

[LostInAnomie]

2. Added...

... even though I hated the whole franchise.

[charlie and algernon]

4. of the ones you listed, IMO the only one close to the Halloween series is the Living Dead series

Leprechaun is FAR too corny to be considered among the franshises you listed.

[LostInAnomie]

7. I could never get into Halloween for the simple fact that Michael Myers was just a man.

He just took WAY too much damage for a human being to survive. Shot, stabbed, shot down a mine-shaft, etc. A human body just could not survive that.

[charlie and algernon]

10. I thought it was made pretty clear, at least in the original series that he wasn't

just a man. Ignoring Rob Zombie's remake where he was made into a man, the original series made it pretty clear that he was the embodiment of evil. That was why in the first movie he could seemingly disappear. He'd be behind the clothesline, then suddenly vanish.

[Richard Steele]

3. Contradiction in terms. The best horror movies stand alone- no franchise. nm

[Bucky]

5. Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein vs the Wolfman

It went downhill from there, but those three were awesome.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. That was my choice, the Universal B&W monsters...

...I like "Ghost of Frankenstein" just because it was so damned ODD, from the camera angles to Bela Lugosi's voice coming out of Lon Chaney's monster. By the time they did "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman," "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula," all they had left was stunt casting, but in the beginning, Universal set a standard that's NEVER been matched.

:toast:

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Halloween.

Even though it has its share of shit, overall, the series is pretty damn good.

I loved Halloween 4. And H20 was pretty damn mainstream.

Halloween 6 is a guilty pleasure of mine. :)

[rucky]

9. Does Evil Dead count?

[Deep13]

12. bing! bing! bing! bing!

We have a winnah.

[Maine-ah]

14. that was my pick too.

I had nightmares from one scene in particular when the chick goes outside...and the vines and trees attacked her. Damn good horror flick.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

11. The Halloween franchise is worthless

The first movie is one of the best horror movies of all time. After that it got really lame, although I have a soft spot for Halloween III.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. Halloween III is shit.

And not just because it lacks Myers. It's just a horrible movie.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

18. It's good

The villian kills children he is evil as hell and a great actor.

[Orsino]

13. Ocean's 1-13.

The feeling of being trapped pervades this franchise: actors doomed to repeat humiliation after humiliation, desperately searching for an exit that will never appear, with the sweet embrace of death as the only possible hope of relief.

[DerekG]

15. The Exorcist

Exorcist II and Harlin's prequel were horrid, but the original, Exorcist III, and Paul Schraeder's prequel kicked ass.

[Forkboy]

16. I'm voting the Dead series, but only because I don't consider Godzilla to be horror.

:)