10 Movie Franchises That Should Have Stopped At One Film
2. Halloween
Back in 1978, Halloween was an averagely OK, if formulaic, slasher movie. Fast forward forty-two years and unbelievably, number twelve in the series is due for release.
Of all the franchises tortured into an existence way beyond their anticipated shelf life, Halloween is surely the worst. Plausibility was stretched thin thirty years ago. What was it with this Mike Myers? The strength of ten men, indestructible, able to perform superhuman feats - this wasn't a Superman movie.
As each pitifully poor entry reared its miserable masked head - and Jamie Lee Curtis dished out enough punishment to fell an army - the dull psycho continued to lurch forward and slash thin air with whatever weapon was at hand. Eventually the ending that even he couldn't return from was delivered when his head was removed. Phew, glad that's all over - no more movies now...
Cue number twelve. As if our intelligence hadn't been insulted enough over the years, the producers have now decided that the entire chain is null and void and they are going back to make a sequel to the first movie again. What? Was it all a dream? More like a nightmare.