10 Horror Franchises That Ended Too Soon

Very few horror filmmakers put their aesthetic stamp on their movies as much as Rob Zombie. Love him or hate him, you can spot a Rob Zombie-helmed picture from a mile away - with the rocker-turned-director lavishing a visceral, almost dirty sheen on his films.

It's fair to say that Zombie certainly splits opinion amongst moviegoers, and never more so than with his two Halloween films.

Obviously, nothing is ever going to compare to John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween - arguably the greatest horror film of all time - but Zombie's spin on the lore of Michael Myers, even if nobody asked for the film, turned out to be a solid outing that very much saw the director deliver his own unique vision for the Shape.

Halloween II is a slightly different beast, for that follow-up didn't quite hit in the way that it was intended to. That white horse symbolism? Meh. The handling of the big sibling reveal? Meh. Loomis killed off? Meh.

What Rob Zombie's Halloween II did do well, though, is that it ended with Scout Taylor-Compton's Laurie Strode descending into madness, setting up all kinds of intriguing possibilities for the once-planned Halloween III.

Zombie would ultimately disagree with Dimension Films' plans for Halloween III, with the director opting not to return for that threequel. While there was an offer on the table for Taylor-Compton and Michael actor Tyler Mane to return for Halloween III, the project ultimately never came to fruition.

More recently, we've seen the Halloween franchise recalibrated with David Gordon Green's 2018 movie and two impending sequels to that film. But still, there's always that 'what if?' where it pertains to a third Zombie Halloween offering.