10 Status Updates On Famous Horror Franchises

Last Entry: Scream - Season 2 (2016)

The Scream franchise kicked off in 1996 with the Wes Craven-directed film that truly took the world by storm, earning a lot of critical acclaim, scoring a boatload of money, and turning Ghostface into a horror icon that continues to be a costume staple every Halloween. Three sequels followed in 1997, 2000, and 2011 before it was decided that the franchise would be best suited for television.

And so Scream became a television series, arriving on MTV in the summer of 2015. Despite a lukewarm response, the show scored a second season in 2016 and has since received a third, which has no premiere date yet but will serve as a reboot for the whole thing, with a new showrunner, cast, and story in place to carry the series forward.

Of course, the question always remains whether there will be a proper fifth Scream film, but with the death of Craven in 2015, it's easy to see why his former collaborators can't see a future without him, with franchise writer Kevin Williamson going so far as to tell ET Online last year that in regards to sequels, "I don’t know how to do it without Wes and I don’t know why to do it," though offered that if someone else could figure it out, he'd be there to support it.

For now, it seems the franchise's future is destined to remain on TV.