15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 11

Another slasher franchise of remakes and reboots that contradict each other at every turn. The Halloween series has covered 40 years of gore, violence and horrific writing.

Much like the aforementioned Chainsaw Massacre series, Halloween almost makes an art out of confusing the entire timeline of every movie with one another, often ignoring certain films all together, while adding and reshaping others at will to squeeze sequels or remakes in wherever they see fit.

The first six movies managed to get more and more bizarre as time went on, with the iconic villain, Michael Myers, surviving everything from fires, explosions, an insane amount of bullets, falling down a mine shaft and being injected with tranquilizers. Just to return for the next movie as right as rain.

Movies four, five and six were straight up disregarded when Halloween H20: 20 Years Later was released as a direct continuation of Halloween II. It's never a great sign for your series when you literally re-create a sequel to just replace the first attempt as if it never happened.

A reboot was then launched of the first two original films, with the same titles and Rob Zombie, of all people, leading the charge as director.

Things have been restored somewhat with the release of the new film, forty years after the first film and there are two more to come, but up until then, it was all very much in the gutter.