Most "Fun" Horror Film Franchise?
 

with Halloween displays now be set up at the local marts and the Friday the 13th Box Set coming out on Blu, i thought i would pose this question of what you think is the most "Fun" franchise...

that doesn't mean most frightening, or horrorfying, most well done, but the one franchise that you get the most fun out of...

asked me years ago and i would have said the Nightmare on Elm Street series hands down, but as the years have passed i got more into the Friday the 13th movies as just pure fun.

hell, i like Jason X and JGTH! Jason X is like my #1 "so bad i love it" movies.

so with the looming Friday box set coming out next week (that i am now eagerly anticipating, despite its flaws in movie cuts), i have to say that this franchise is what i enjoy the most becuase of the inventive kills, the insane plots or lack thereof, the effects, the cheese and all the rest...

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I like all of them that I've seen.

Evil Dead - Proven classic. Don't see why this wouldn't have 90% of the votes.

Resident Evil - Modern throwaway sci-fi horror. Completely stupid. A new coincidence or macguffin every five minutes. Good fun. Except that last one, which I felt betrayed by.

Hatchet - I heard mixed things about this. But haven't watched it.

House - No House? I always watched House 1 and 2 when I was younger.

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that would have been a good one. also, forgot Psycho...

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no phantasm? poll fail.

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:suicide:

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My gut said go with Friday the 13th -- the original was the first horror film I remember viewing. However, the Scream series seems to fit the profile of "fun" better with the way it references other horror movies.

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The Evil Dead trilogy of films gets two groovy thumbs up from me.

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The first one I thought of.

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Strictly for "fun" - Final Destination

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How can one NOT have fun with the Evil Dead series?

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I love the Evil Dead franchise but I couldn't vote for it. The first one was straight horror, and not very fun at all. The third one is a straight comedy, and doesn't have any moments that are scary. I think only Evil Dead 2 qualifies as a "fun horror" movie.

So I went with Friday the 13th, that's the kind of movie where you actually root for the monster and cheer when he starts killing off douchebag campers. There's also some great comedic relief in entries like number 6.

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Blade is a horror franchise?

For me? ED. liked the remake, loved the first 2, and I'm ok with ED3.

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Child's Play.

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I'm going with Friday the 13th. Those movies are the perfect movies to watch with a crowd or friends with pizza and beer. NOES seemed to see saw between fun, and just stupid. Same with the Child's Play movies.

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I've been a lifelong fan of the F13th franchise, so that'd be my pick. They run the gamut from serious horror to straight-up tongue-in-cheek humor, all with varying results. I can't get enough.

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Saw is my favorite. They weren't all great movies, but I enjoyed that it was essentially 1 movie broken up into 7 parts. Not many horror franchises are so closely linked.

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[REC] series... yes, even the third one.

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While I am a huge fan of most choices, I picked Hatchet simply because it was fun.
The over the top gore and blood. It's chuckle worthy moments of good campy humor.
It wasn't to be taken seriously even though many who watched them thought it was supposed to be.
The ridiculous kills were great. You got tons of blood and outlandish gore. You knew they had fun making the films.

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Friday the 13th for me by far. The films all have that goofy 80s slasher vibe to them that just makes them fun films to watch. To me the films are all decent to varying degrees. The first is the best film probably but to me the sequels are all pretty fun to varying degrees with The Final Chapter and Jason Lives being my favorites. Really the first eight are all pretty good, Jason Goes to Hell is the worst, Jason X is okay but was never my favorite, and Freddy vs. Jason is alright but kind of a disappointment to me. To me Freddy vs. Jason felt more like a part of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with Jason guest starring. The remake is meh to me. I wanted to like it but the prologue is the best part of it and it kind of is downhill from there.

Halloween is probably my next favorite. I think the first four films are all really good with the original obviously being the best. The fifth one isn't the greatest but it's still watchable enough. I think that The Curse of Michael Myers and Halloween Resurrection are probably the worst in the series. Halloween: H20 is also a pretty decent entry.

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Evil Dead trilogy, without question. All three are favorites of the genre, and entertainment galore.

Next would be Friday the 13th, just love this series overall. Some are barely watchable (JgtH and FvJ), but I watch at least 3-4 every time a Friday the 13th rolls around.

As for some of the other choices, can't see how they are even listed. Of course everyone's opinion is different, but some of these franchises become tedious and a chore to sit through as the series progresses:
Hellraisers
Children of the Corn
Puppet Master
Howling

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Friday The 13th!

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I'm glad someone else feels the same way about this. The card scene, the pencil sequence, Shelly's long scream, the demonic tauntings (Which were much more light-hearted in Part 2) All that shit still gets to me.

As VHS? noted, if it weren't for not having seen Part 3, I might've gone with Hatchet. Those first 2 were fun to me.

But I think I'm going to go ahead and vote for F13th. Part 2's the only installment that comes close to providing some fear, but it's outweighed by all the other fun sequels.

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The IT'S ALIVE trilogy directed by Larry Cohen. Who can't love killer mutant children? Needs a Blu-ray release so badly along with his THE STUFF.

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I need to see these at some point. I've heard a lot of good things about them and that they feel like throwback 80s slasher films.

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The Excorcist is a franchise?

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Yea. #3 was quite good.

I would say that it's the most serious and least "fun" out of everything in the poll.

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While Scream has the meta factor going for it, I have a soft spot for the Final Destination flicks. They just make for fun movies.

I've never had a thing for slasher flicks so most of the options just don't appeal to me. I can't believe anyone would think torture porn is "fun" either. Entertaining? Sure, but fun? I don't see it.

I know Evil Dead is revered but as mentioned above, the first is uber serious and the third is total campiness. Never saw the second. Maybe that's the missing piece I need to appreciate those films. :lol:

I'll also toss out Candyman since no one has mentioned it yet.

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Yeah, there's five total. The Exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Exorcist III, Exorcist: The Beginning, and Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist. The original and the third are the best. Dominion is okay too.

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No OMEN?

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I wish there was a market to properly finish the post production on Dominion and rerelease it on DVD.

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Agreed. Nothing fun about the first one at all. I love it, but it's perhaps the most disturbing film I've seen.

I went with Scream, but perhaps should have voted Final Destination.

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As far as fun horror franchise goes, I almost chose Puppet Master, but thought about it and instead chose 'Other' with Phantasm being my personal favorite fun horror franchise even if the ending of Oblivion didn't give me the closure that it should have. We need one more to wrap it up...;)

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i was gonna buy Scream today, but decided against it. bad move?

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Only you would know the answer. Do you like the movie or not? Pretty simple.

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i meant the Blu-ray as a whole.

went ahead and just got the 4 movies on Blu anyway. October Horror Movie Challenge here i fucking come!!

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Say, was the uncut version ever released on Blu-Ray?

I'd probably bat for the Alien franchise, which not counting the AVP stuff has at least had very interesting directors attached to each installment, or maybe Romero, who has nice B-movie flair and a great sense of intelligence to go with it. The Scream movies are pretty smart and fun too, for the most part, and Craven has been involved with all of them.

I thought it did get released? I'd be more interested in the long-legendary cut of Legion with the missing footage, but apparently that's lost forever.

For sheer fun, Evil Dead must take the cake, Raimi has a flair that few do and the movies are a blast.

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Hmmmm....

It's so hard to pick, but Halloween FTW!

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I heard a long time ago that the ending of Scream 2 was leaked and they had to rewritten the ending like two months before the movie release date, I've been too lazy to see how it was originally supposed to end but I think I might Google it now.

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Never been a fan of the Scream movies. The first one is more dated now than the films it spoofs.

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You and Decker need to get together for a movie night :eyebrow: