Favorite Horror Franchise [Archive]

Gringo Loco

07-15-2007, 01:08 AM

My ultimate favorite is Friday the 13th series, but I gotta give love to the other big 2: The Halloween series and the ANOES series, in that order.

A. Remin' D.

07-15-2007, 01:14 AM

A Nightmare On Elm Street.

I love all of the installments. To me, it was a series that never went bad. It's the most solid horror series. I didn't like the Halloweens after 5, Friday the 13ths after 7, Child's Plays after 3, Hellraisers after 2, etc.

Franchise

07-15-2007, 02:05 AM

Yep. Go Halloween.

Deathscythe

07-15-2007, 04:10 AM

I voted for A Nightmare on Elm Street, I loved the whole franchise with the exception of Freddy's Dead.

sCabbOy

07-15-2007, 06:34 AM

I have to say F13, since I never liked anything after Halloween 4, ANOES 3, Hellraiser 3, Child's Play 2, TCM 3, and so on.

Wheatjedi

07-15-2007, 08:16 PM

Friday the 13th
Halloween
Psycho
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Hellraiser
Phantasm

Myers, Michael

07-15-2007, 08:48 PM

Depends on my mood. Sometimes it Halloween. Sometimes it's Friday th 13th. Others is Nightmare on Elm Street. At the moment I'm on a NOES kick.

Rich

07-16-2007, 07:34 AM

I pick Friday the 13th. Here are my top franchises/movies:

Friday the 13th Best Films:
1. Friday the 13th (1980)
2. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
3. Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
4. Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Best Films:
1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987)
3. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

Halloween Best Film:
1. Halloween (1978)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Best Film:
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The Evil Dead Best Film:
1. The Evil Dead (1983)

Nancy Thompson

07-16-2007, 11:52 AM

ANOES Series
F13th Series
Halloween Series
Sleepaway Camp Series

Ron

07-20-2007, 01:34 AM

i'll have to go with halloween, but im a fan of pretty much all of them.

Scarecrow

07-23-2007, 03:44 PM

Do I really have to say? :P

- Scarecrow

Lammert

07-23-2007, 05:34 PM

Friday the 13th, hands down!

Killa Pimp

07-26-2007, 12:29 AM

Friday the 13th.
I saw Halloween first, but Friday won me over.
Remains my favorite to this day.

girlychaos

07-26-2007, 05:29 AM

Friday the 13th....for sure.

Nice poll btw, Mikey! :)

Spade

07-26-2007, 08:37 AM

Friday the 13th is my favorite, but A Nightmare on Elm Street is a close second.

Take care and God bless.

Spade

El Rooto

08-06-2007, 01:58 AM

If I have to pick one...Child's Play.

The Dream Master

08-06-2007, 02:50 AM

NOES all the way with me. I guess F13 and Romero's Dead films would be a close second, though.

Scarecrow

08-06-2007, 06:23 PM

If I have to pick one...Child's Play.

Unusual choice. Have to ask, what is it about the series that makes it your favourite? :)

- Scarecrow

El Rooto

08-07-2007, 03:47 AM

Unusual choice. Have to ask, what is it about the series that makes it your favourite? :)

- Scarecrow

It has a nostalgic quality for me, it has a great, memorable villian, and it's just tons of fun to see a foul-mouthed, 2-foot tall prick run around and kill everybody in creative ways.

Chucky is my favorite horror icon, more so than Leatherface or Jason or Freddy or Michael or Pinhead or the Tall Man or...um...whoever I'm forgetting.

So, why do you like Hellraiser so much?

Rich

08-07-2007, 05:46 AM

Being a Friday the 13th message board and all I think it was obvious what series was going to win.

I think it would be more interesting to do a poll on what is your favorite series other then Friday the 13th. Now, that to me would have been more interesting.

Deathscythe

08-07-2007, 06:53 AM

I think it would be more interesting to do a poll on what is your favorite series other then Friday the 13th. Now, that to me would have been more interesting.

I think the Nightmare on Elm Street series would win, I mean its in 2nd place and it did have a cross over with the Friday the 13th franchise.

Taking out the big 3 (Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street) now THAT would be interesting.

Scarecrow

08-07-2007, 06:24 PM

So, why do you like Hellraiser so much?

The epic horror-fantasy element. Not just limited to one iconic psycho, but built up as a vats mythology o ancient horrors, demonic Gods, alkternative dimensions... all very Lovecraft really. Leviathan as the God of Suffering and Flesh, Pinhead as the Black Pope Lord of the Cenobites, the themes of suffering, pain, human desire and how humanity are often the true villains.

- Scarecrow

DRE

08-07-2007, 07:27 PM

To me, Friday/Nightmare/Halloween are counterparts so they all occupy the same position in the countdown, followed by Hellraiser, TCM and Child's Play.

FreddyKR

08-07-2007, 10:15 PM

Do the Scream movies count? Because I really liked those, but I may have to go with Friday the 13th

CrazyCamper

08-19-2007, 12:35 AM

I can NEVER decide between Halloween & F13. Picking is impossible. I will take yet another opportunity here to say NOES blows something awful!

Ron

08-19-2007, 10:04 PM

I guess I missed Sleepaway Camp on the list originally. I would have picked that.

NETRA

08-19-2007, 11:37 PM

I voted for F13 but have always had a deep appreciation for the PSYCHO movies too . . . Which weren't on the poll. Oh well. :)

MaDMaNMaRz

08-21-2007, 05:58 AM

I voted for F13 but have always had a deep appreciation for the PSYCHO movies too . . . Which weren't on the poll. Oh well. :)

I put in the "Other" option. :)

Shoesalesman

09-07-2007, 05:51 PM

Top three...

Friday The 13th
Nightmare On Elm Street
Psycho

hack slash

09-07-2007, 06:00 PM

Halloween is my favorite franchise, Zombie's movie(IMO) reinforced it

Friday is 2nd

Freddy-Fan

09-08-2007, 04:44 AM

I went with NOES.

nottidelterrore

10-28-2007, 06:15 AM

Other: Romero's Dead Films

Scarecrow

10-28-2007, 10:03 AM

Other: Romero's Dead Films

Well, I'm surprised.

For some strange, unplaceable reason, I thought you were going to say Maniac Cop....

:D

- Scarecrow

Matt326

01-29-2009, 09:02 PM

Friday the 13th

Natman

01-29-2009, 11:08 PM

Though it's by no means the best series, the Puppet Master series will likely always be closest to my heart. Followed very closely by Friday the 13th.

But as a writer and aspiring film maker, the Hellraiser series has served as my biggest inspiration. I agree with pretty much everything Scarecrow has said on it. It really captures the depth of human depravity. In the first two films, Pinhead wasn't the film's true villain, and I loved that. My only real issue with Hell on Earth is that it made Pinhead the main villain and the focus of the movie which I think is kind of missing the point. Still, a unique take for the time.

Anyway, I voted Other: Puppet Master.

i am SAW

01-30-2009, 09:49 PM

SAW.......

kiss_armyman1

02-05-2009, 11:02 PM

Friday of course, followed by ANOES ,and Sleepaway Camp.

Violent VictiM

02-05-2009, 11:56 PM

"Friday the 13th" got me into it all so that will always be the mecca and the holy grail.

Demon

02-06-2009, 03:43 AM

Halloween
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on elm street
sleep away camp
puppet master series
phantasm series
Texas chainsaw massacre series
Hellraiser series
Child play series
Pumpkinhead series

The Heat

02-08-2009, 03:27 PM

1. Friday the 13th
2. Child's Play
3. Hellraiser
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5. Halloween

Rich

02-24-2009, 01:17 AM

That would be. Other then the big three I might have to go with George A. Romero's Dead series. I also am a huge fan of the Child's Play, Chainsaw, and Evil Dead series.

Just Jeans

02-28-2009, 04:40 AM

Friday the 13th is my favorite slasher series, but my favorite horror franchise over-all would have to be Phantasm. The surrealism draws me into the film in a way that slashers, entertaining though they are, don't.

CountProphet

03-10-2009, 12:02 AM

I gonna have to go with George A. Romero's Dead Series. Its my favorite Horror Franchise ever and its the series that got me into the horror genre in the first place. The series never really went downhill imo. Well, atleast not to the extend of other horror franchises like, the embarrasing: Freddy's Dead, Jason X, and Halloween: Ressurction which are just terrible. Diary might be bad but, not that bad to be putwith those garbage films.

The 'Nightmare' Series is a close second though. I love the first 4 and New Nightmare. Nightmare 5 is a disappointment. I don't love it but, I don't hate it either. Freddy's Dead and FvJ though remain the crap they are.

Voorheeszilla

11-13-2009, 04:12 AM

My all time favorite slasher franchise is Halloween, though I do have a great deal of love for the Friday the 13th franchise as well.

Melanie Jarvis

11-13-2009, 04:14 AM

Halloween is definitely my favorite franchise because the films were of a higher quality. Friday the 13th comes in a close second though.

Voorheeszilla

11-13-2009, 04:21 AM

That's how I feel as well. The Halloween franchise seems more story driven than the F13 franchise. It's odd, though, because for a brief time when I first got into horror I'd rave on & on about Friday the 13th all day (in a good way) and then I started to watch more Halloween films, and my head started to turn, then there was the brief period of time I couldn't choose between the two and when I could, I decided I was a bit more of a Halloween guy.

To be brutally honest, though, while the original Friday the 13th is an iconic film, it just didn't break ground like the original Halloween did.

The Dream Master

11-13-2009, 04:24 AM

Looking back at the thread, I see that I picked NOES when it was started, and I'll still roll with that (and always will because I don't see any franchise dethroning that one). But I've gotta give an honorable mention to Phantasm, especially after checking out the sequels again in the past year or so. Forgot about how strong the series was, and I wish we'd get another one.

Voorheeszilla

11-13-2009, 04:33 AM

ANOES, F13, & Halloween are all worthy franchies, but in terms of quality & characters, I think Halloween is at the top of the chain. As far as my favorites go, I'd list Halloween as being first, then F13, & then ANOES.

Brett H.

11-13-2009, 04:42 AM

Without a question for me, it's Evil Dead. Every movie in the series is basically as strong as any given first (or subsequent, in the rarer cases where a sequel is better) film in all these other franchises. Frankly, I don't think any of these series hold a candle to the real holy horror trilogy. Pound for pound, any of these franchises beating Evil Dead would be like Rocky beating Drago in the only official cut of Rocky IV. Ie: the unofficial one where Drago wins.

The Dream Master

11-13-2009, 04:45 AM

I think if you took the three best Elm Street movies against the Evil Dead trilogy, they hold their own pretty well. For me, that'd be 1, 3, and 4. Though I've gotta say that the worst ED movie (and I have no clue what that would be because they're so damn close :X) doesn't get as poor as the lesser NOES movies. So I guess as a whole unit, I can roll with ED being damn strong...just not my favorite, 'cause Freddy rules.

Brett H.

11-13-2009, 04:56 AM

Ehhhh, I don't think I'd put NOES 4 up there with any ED flick. :X As for NOES 3, I really need to watch that one again to grasp how much I actually like it, but I seem to remember thinking the type of people who liked it so much above and beyond the original, even, were, well...

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I guess if you wanted, you could stretch it into putting NOES 4 into AOD category, but I think that's doing AOD a serious disservice for how good it is at what it is. Not too many flicks funnier or with a doeper badass than Ash.

The Dream Master

11-13-2009, 05:01 AM

Hard to compare NOES 4 and AOD, but in terms of tone, I guess those two match up the best between the two franchises. You have ass-kicking main characters (Freddy and Ash), and they're both stylish as hell. I think I would give AOD the nod when it comes to humor, but it should since that's what it set out to do (more so than Nightmare 4 anyway). It's a stretch, but for pure entertainment value, both are close for me.

The 5th Golden Girl

11-13-2009, 03:05 PM