10 Horror Movie Franchises With No Bad Movies

9. Cloverfield

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The Cloverfield franchise is a unique one in how its two sequels weren't initially designed to be, well, sequels.

Arriving in 2008, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield had a whole bunch of buzz around it, and the film certainly delivered both in terms of critical response and in box office haul; taking just shy of $175 million from a modest $25 million budget.

That first Cloverfield is one of the great found-footage movies, with the shaky, erratic nature of utilising such an approach bringing a sense of chaos to proceedings as the film centres on a group of friends in New York City while an otherworldly monster runs riot. Brilliantly, Cloverfield only gives minimal looks at this beastly threat, which only adds further to the uncertainty and unsettled feel of the picture.

As alluded to, 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane and 2018's The Cloverfield Paradox were both standalone movies when they first went into development as The Cellar and God Particle, respectively. By the time 'The Cellar' and 'God Particle' were released, though, they'd been altered in order to make them part of what has now become a three-movie (with a fourth on the way) Cloverfield franchise.

For 10 Cloverfield Lane, this Dan Trachtenberg-helmed picture spends the bulk of its time in an underground bunker following a purported alien attack, whilst the space-set Cloverfield Paradox manages to cleverly work as a prequel despite taking place in the future of 2028.

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