10 Horror Movie Franchises That Went Out With A Whimper

4. Halloween

As it stands, David Gordon Green's trilogy served as the end of the Halloween franchise. Well, at least in a big-screen sense, for Miramax nowadays has the rights to develop a Halloween TV series.

Still, Green's trio of pictures was billed as culminating in one final battle for the ages between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. And while we did get one last meeting of these two horror icons, Myers vs. Strode unfortunately took a backseat to the emergence of Corey Cunningham as the main villainous focus of Halloween Ends.

Michael and Laurie certainly did have one final, memorable meeting, with the Shape having his throat and wrists slit by Strode and her granddaughter Allyson, before Myers was then fed through an industrial shredder as the people of Haddonfield watched on. The problem was, Michael was kept on the sidelines - well, the sewers - until the final 15 minutes or so of Ends.

The arc of Corey was actually an interesting one - a tragic accident changing his life forever in a town already traumatised by the evils of Michael Myers - but having this take centre-stage, for an audience who'd come to see Michael vs. Laurie, was a bone-headed decision; a decision that brought a hugely negative reaction from the masses and a decision that set the Halloween movie franchise off into the sunset in such a flat, disappointing way.