10 Ridiculous Times Horror Movie Franchises Jumped The Shark

10. Halloween - Michael Myers Is Being Controlled By A Cult

The Halloween franchise almost went in an interesting direction with Season of the Witch by turning the series into an anthology, but audiences demanded the return of Michael Myers. They got it, but the plot the filmmakers would come up with to stretch this thing out became more ridiculous than you could ever imagine.

In the original movie, part of what's so terrifying about Michael Myers is that there isn't a clear cut explanation for why he's killing people. Freddy and Jason both have somewhat elaborate backstories, but for Michael, he's just an insane person. That ambiguity makes the whole thing a lot more frightening.

That's all thrown out the window with Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, in which it's explained that Michael is just evil because he's being controlled by a cult. Wait, what? The movie introduces The Cult of Thorn, a group that must sacrifice every member of a family in order to stop a curse. Michael Myers is under the cult's spell, and so that explains why he has to kill every surviving Strode. It also is meant to explain how he keeps coming back from the dead.

The franchise already had its fair share of dumb moments, but by revealing one of the great slasher villains of all time to be some guy a cult is manipulating, the series was officially dead.