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I'm thinking maybe Evil Dead or Scream.

Scream for sure.

Scream definitely

Halloween, Hellraiser, and NOES.

Anything with less then 6 entries maybe. Are we counting All Hallows Eve as part of the Terrifier series?

Scream. Even Scream 3 (the only legit bad one) is still a fun movie.

However, it does have that shitty TV series.

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For my dollar it's Evil Dead, but I've loved literally all the movies in that series plus Ash vs Evil Dead is an incredible show.

Final Destination

Phantasm

thronedfire2 posted...

Final Destination

This one is also pretty good

Child's Play deserves an honorable mention. As long as you find something embracing the camp to be fun.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Child's Play deserves an honorable mention. As long as you find something embracing the camp to be fun.

Welll....I wouldn't quite say so. It just got worse as it went on.

thronedfire2 posted...

Final Destination

Beat me to it

Came in to say Scream as well.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

This one is also pretty good

Third movie isn't great (and remember the 9/11 reference they forced in it?) and the 4th movie was awful, though, so 40% overall not good.

Is there any long running horror series that doesn't have an embarrassing, awful, or stupid entry in it?

Insidious

Only 2 of them but 28 Days later. I would like to say Tremors but everything after the 2nd one sucked.

Irony posted...

Insidious

Yeah they haven't made a bad one yet imo

GeminiDeus posted...

Came in to say Scream as well.

Third movie isn't great (and remember the 9/11 reference they forced in it?) and the 4th movie was awful, though, so 40% overall not good.

I liked the first three and the fifth wasn't too bad, just played out. Admittedly I did not see the fourth.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Evil Dead

This has always had consistent quality, even if the tone doesn't capture spirit of the original trilogy. The first Evil Dead reboot was a solid horror experience, the 2nd reboot was terrifying. The original trilogy is absolutely cult classic, and Ash vs. The Evil Dead is also a modern cult classic.

Irony posted...

Insidious

I've enjoyed the first three films. Looking forward to seeing the rest.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

I liked the first three and the fifth wasn't too bad, just played out. Admittedly I did not see the fourth.

I also liked the first three, but the third was the weakest of them. Fifth was amazing and fourth was just bad writing, uninspired and boring deaths, and was part of the 3D gimmick that was popular at the time and just looks awful.

The 4th one was a 3D? Say no more about its quality. Will pass.

The 4th one was a 3D? Say no more!

Was gonna say Halloween has a fairly solid track record for such a long running series but then I remembered the reboot trilogy.

Evil Dead. Ash trilogy, 2013 and Rise are all great. I regrettably have not watched Ash vs. Evil Dead yet but I've heard that's just as good.

If not for the fourth one I think I'd actually agree on Final Destination, the other four movies are consistently at least fairly enjoyable. The fourth one is like. Jason Takes Manhattan-level bad. Fuck. It might have the worst special effects in any fucking movie I've seen with a budget higher than that of Birdemic.

Irony posted...

Insidious

The first Insidious was good during the first half and sucked during the second half. Every movie after that was just straight garbo.

Honestly, I'd probably give it to Scream or The Evil Dead. Scream really has only one dud (3), and even that one isn't particularly bad.

Halloween's my favorite horror franchise, but I'd be lying if I said I thought it was consistent.

specialkid8 posted...

Was gonna say Halloween has a fairly solid track record for such a long running series but then I remembered the reboot trilogy.

The reboot trilogy was fine. There were plenty of, ahem, less than stellar entries in the series long before them (6, Resurrection, and Rob Zombie's Halloween II are all easily at the bottom of the list).

GeminiDeus posted...

the third was the weakest of them. Fifth was amazing and fourth was just bad writing, uninspired and boring deaths, and was part of the 3D gimmick that was popular at the time and just looks awful.

#3 was the roller coaster one, right? I remember liking #4 but it definitely had some parts that were clearly done specifically for the 3D effect.

I don't remember all the details of the deaths, but I feel like there was some point where the series went from "freak accidents" to "supernatural force causing freak accidents." Like I think there was a scene where a latch shut on its own or some thing and it was like, weird that it could do that on its own.

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Evil Dead and Scream for sure. I do agree with Final Destinstion tho. If the 4th one wasnt trash, itd be a damn near perfect franchise of good over the top horror fun.

MTRodaba2468 posted...

The reboot trilogy was fine. There were plenty of, ahem, less than stellar entries in the series long before them (6, Resurrection, and Rob Zombie's Halloween II are all easily at the bottom of the list).

6 is really the only terrible one. Resurrection is full camp and borders on so bad it's good and I will defend the zombie movies til the day I die. They aren't traditional Halloween movies but you can't deny Rob has a style of his own and they do exactly what they set out to do even if it's not what people wanted. 2018 is decent enough but has wild tonal shifts and the partial reboot aspect feels unnecessary. The other two are completely embarrassing jokes.

Child's Play gets my vote.

Child's Play: Great.
Child's Play 2: Great.
Child's Play 3: Meh.
Bride of Chucky: Fucking awesome.
Seed of Chucky: Good.
Curse of Chucky: Awesome.
Cult of Chucky: Great.
Chucky (TV Series): Great.

Child's Play reboot is not part of the Mancini series so it doesn't count.

Evil Dead easy. There's never been a bad one.

Scream 3 was a bad movie imo.

Surprised so many people are saying Scream. The first two are the only good ones. 4 is fine and 3 and 5 are dreck. Haven't seen 6 yet but I don't imagine it's much better than 5.

Phantasm

Tremors

Okay I guess my vote is for Terrifier. If we're counting All Hallows Eve it's got 3. If not, it's got 2 with another incoming.

While they're not scary, the old timey black n white Wolf Man movies were also surprisingly good. And I say that as someone who does not give a damn about werewolves. The remake of Wolf Man was a little dull in between him rampaging. But it wasn't terrible.

And both versions of The Blob are great!

MTRodaba2468 posted...

Honestly, I'd probably give it to Scream or The Evil Dead. Scream really has only one dud (3), and even that one isn't particularly bad.

Halloween's my favorite horror franchise, but I'd be lying if I said I thought it was consistent.

The reboot trilogy was fine. There were plenty of, ahem, less than stellar entries in the series long before them (6, Resurrection, and Rob Zombie's Halloween II are all easily at the bottom of the list).

Don't forget it's got those dumb silver shamrock, thorn cult and h20 films.

MisterPengy posted...

#3 was the roller coaster one, right? I remember liking #4 but it definitely had some parts that were clearly done specifically for the 3D effect.

I don't remember all the details of the deaths, but I feel like there was some point where the series went from "freak accidents" to "supernatural force causing freak accidents." Like I think there was a scene where a latch shut on its own or some thing and it was like, weird that it could do that on its own.

Yeah, #3 was the roller coaster. It had some good deaths in it, but it also had a scene where "9/11 was foreshadowed because an airplane's shadow was on the Twin Towers in a picture." And I can't remember if that was a deleted scene or actually in the version I saw.

Fourth movie was so bad for me that I almost didn't see the fifth one in the theater, but damn am I glad I did. It was amazing, especially the twist at the end.

As for the supernatural forces causing accidents, that was already in the first movie where Death made the bathroom floor slippery from a leak and then made the leak go back to where it came from after the kill. All the kills are Death's design in every movie.

yeah the 4th final destination was definitely the worst one.

the supernatural stuff was always there though. Plus the mortician/Death?

For me, Scream and The Evil Dead movies have been fun on consistent levels.

Priere posted...

Phantasm

I love the Phantasm series.

Scream? Really?
They're all bad.

GeminiDeus posted...

Yeah, #3 was the roller coaster. It had some good deaths in it, but it also had a scene where "9/11 was foreshadowed because an airplane's shadow was on the Twin Towers in a picture." And I can't remember if that was a deleted scene or actually in the version I saw.

Fourth movie was so bad for me that I almost didn't see the fifth one in the theater, but damn am I glad I did. It was amazing, especially the twist at the end.

As for the supernatural forces causing accidents, that was already in the first movie where Death made the bathroom floor slippery from a leak and then made the leak go back to where it came from after the kill. All the kills are Death's design in every movie.

I don't remember that, but that was in poor taste to say the least.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

I don't remember that, but that was in poor taste to say the least.

I'd like to recommend to you the channel Dead Meat, which goes over mostly horror movies' kills and even goes in depth sometimes for how scenes were done. It's a great channel that showed up in my recommendations earlier this year or late last year, I forgot. They've covered all the Final Destination movies, if you've got a bit of time to spare.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtYJXm9wuYO4177g485XMpKEQFHlmytrr

Halloween is so overrated imo. The first one was good, second one meh, third was great, but everything after that is just so repetitive and obvious that it's not really scary.