Best Horror Franchise (Out Of These)?

Halloween > Friday the 13th = A Nightmare in Elm street > the Texas Chainsaw Massacre > Saw > Hellraiser

The Halloween movies are just consistently better imo. Friday the 13th and Elmstreet got goofy in the end but they're still fun movies. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a solid franchise but id wager that it's made the 2nd least amount of money for this list.

Personally I also LOVE the Scream movies and series as far as franchises go. It'd be my number 1.

Hellraiser is more interesting, and it's the kind of horror that I like the most. But each of them is great in their own way.

Saw

Halloween is a classic and all but meh.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre had one great movie. The rest can kiss my ass.

Friday the 13th is decent.

Saw is pretty stupid.

Nightmare on Elm Street is the SHIT! Great humor, great concept, and great spooks.

Hellraiser is great to watch on a giant screen while you're high with friends.

Friday the 13th

Nightmare. It was the most consistently entertaining and it didn't take itself too seriously.

I am a huge horror fan, I will break it down as I see it.

Friday the 13th

Fun movies, I marathon them every year or so, they were not quality cinema or anything but they were still good and fun to watch. The remake was not what was expected but it was ok I guess.

Nightmare on Elm Street.

Much more consistent in quality, tried harder at having a plot other than hot girls and drunk guys get killed. It is more a horror series where F13 is more a teen guy slasher. However the remake was complete garbage. That is what happens when you try to make something pg13 that shouldn't be.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Honestly, the first one was creative, but none of them were good movies, they all kind of sucked.

Hell raiser was more an actual plot induced horror movie than the rest. They created a lot of unique and ingenious things. Sadly the acting was never ver good and they went down hill after the second one.

Saw I do not really consider a horror movie. It is more just torture porn and look how we killed this one kind of movie, first 2 were good rest not so much.

Halloween was the first one to put it all together correctly. Halloween 1 and 2 were amazing. 3 was just a total train wreck, long story behind that one. The rest before the reboots were ok but they never had the magic of the first 2. However, I really liked the Halloween remake. I thought it was very well done. They just let rob be a little to free on the second one and he went too far with the imagery.

Overall:

Halloween is the best series based on quality, but F13th is the most fun to watch.

Obviously, Human Centipede.

Watch or at least google it, you won't regret it.

If we're ranking franchises, consistency counts. So I'm going by highest percentage of entries I liked vs entries I didn't.

1. Friday the 13th
2. Saw
3. Halloween/Hellraiser (tie)
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Evil Dead should've been an option, too. :/

Why stop there?

• Child's Play
• Living Dead
• Phantasm
• Hannibal
• Jaws
• Scream
• Puppet Master
• Prom Night
• The Omen
• Paranormal Activity
• The Howling
• Psycho
• The Exorcist
• Critters
• Final Destination
• Ringu/Ring
• Wrong Turn
• Pumpkinhead
• The Prophecy
• Ju-On/Grudge
• Sleepaway Camp
• Silent Night, Deadly Night
• Leprechaun
• Wishmaster
• Tremors
• House
• Children of the Corn
• Witchcraft
• Ghoulies
• Amityville (questionable)

Diehard Friday the 13th fan here, so that one wins for me.

@black_wreath: Jeepers Creepers :)

Conjuring and Insidious are the only horror movies that I really took seriously, tbh.

And Indonesia's horror is scary as F! >_<

@anna_karenina: Only series with more than 3 movies. :)

@black_wreath: Aaw, I haven't seen that rule. :/

But rumour has it, they're making a third instalment in the franchise. (I've been reading about that for over a decade).

@anna_karenina: No rumour. It's finished filming.

I mean, if you're comfortable watching a film directed by that man, enjoy... >.>

@black_wreath: I have to admit I'm not familiar with the whole story, but I thought the director was arrested and convicted of his crimes.

@anna_karenina: I generally don't care what actors or directors do in their spare time but, personally, I find Victor Salva's case hard to ignore.

I would never condemn anyone's affection for his movies and I definitely have no moral high ground (I've seen Cannibal Holocaust more times than I care to admit), I just personally find it hard to watch them without thinking of what that guy behind the camera did and, yeah, it ruins the movie for me.

I enjoy the bolded ones on this list.

OT: Friday the 13th is 1st/best, the rest are okay.

Hellraiser was something different when I watched it, and that made it one of the best horror movie franchises for me, but the sequels fell off hard. So, I have to say A Nightmare on Elm Street is the best horror series for me.

Halloween for me. I grew up on that.

None of those come close to being the best horror franchise.

THIS is the greatest horror franchise of all time:

Halloween.

Friday the 13th >>> Nightmare on Elm St. >>> Halloween >>>TCM

Dont care for the other ones.

Halloween

Oooooh, Iiiiiiiiii'm a Happy Camper, I love the summer sun!

I love the trees and forests, I'm always having fun!