10 Horror Movie Franchises That Need To End

10. Prom Night

Prom Night (1980) was a Halloween-influenced slasher that featured the Queen of Scream herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, in the lead, but a supporting role for a pre-Airplane Leslie Nielsen did not bode well for a franchise. It was seven years before we saw Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, an in-name-only sequel that junked the slasher aspect in favor of ripping off A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss, followed in 1990, this time playing up the comedy aspect in an attempt to cash in on Freddy Krueger’s status as horror’s #1 punster. It didn’t work, so Prom Night 4: Deliver Us From Evil (1992) is another unrelated sequel that attempts to get back to basics by ripping off Halloween.

The franchise came full circle in 2008 with a reboot of the original movie that pretty much junked the original storyline in favour of a plot concerning a creepy teacher who escapes from the loony bin and stalks one of his students. Sort of like Halloween, only without suspense, scares or any characters you can root for.