15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 9

Mr. Kruger became the latest hacking, dicing and slicing murderous nightmare (pun intended) in the gory slasher genre that was ruining people's sleep and haunting kids throughout the 80s.

A pop culture icon in almost every facet of media over the decades, Freddy Kruger and the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise terrified teens and adults alike, quite literally scaring people into not sleeping in fear of being visited in their dreams.

While early success and the originality of the story at the time lent itself to sequels, the term 'too much, too early' certainly comes to mind after the seventh film titled Wes Craven's New Nightmare hit theatres just ten years after the original, people were starting to get worn out with the fedora wearing creeper.

If overexposure wasn't enough, the bizarre edits, scripts and storylines that filled out each new installment was interesting to say the least.

The aforementioned seventh film with director Wes Craven dropping his own name in the title, saw Kruger displayed as a fictional character invading a fictional version of the real world, a la Last Action Hero.

Freddy would do battle with Jason (from Friday The 13th fame) in an attempt to revive the series in 2003 but the success just wasn't enough to get any legs out of an extended crossover franchise.