10 Horror Movies Probably Made Out Of Spite

10. Friday The 13th

While Sean S. Cunningham is a name forever synonymous with the Friday the 13th franchise - him having helmed the original 1980 movie - Cunningham had previously worked heavily on Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left.

Serving as producer on the picture and helping Craven put the story together, Cunningham was one of the true driving forces behind this 1972 offering. But once Last House had been released and received huge backlash due to its controversial content, Sean looked to distance himself for the project as the dust started to settle a few years later.

That distancing came in the shape of Friday the 13th, a film that Cunningham intended to be more of a high octane roller coaster ride than the grim, depressing, brutal, abusive tale that was The Last House on the Left.

Taking inspiration from what John Carpenter had done with Halloween in 1978, Cunningham began plotting a screenplay for what was then known as A Long Night at Camp Blood - which was subsequently rewritten by Victor Miller and became Friday the 13th.