15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 12

Cashing in on the success of the Halloween original in 1978, audiences were introduced to a new background of mass murder just two years later with the release of Friday The 13th.

Despite not actually being an on-screen character in the first film, the franchise launched the decades-long rampage of Jason Voorhees, one of cinemas most iconic villains.

The series certainly delivers an endless barrage of death and violence, fitting snugly into the slasher genre it was beginning to take over, but as time rolled on, laziness set in.

There's only so many times they can recycle the whole Jason-dies-but-is-resurrected-for-a-killing-spree-at-the-lake-then-killed-again schtick.

He is killed, or it's implied that he was, at the end of nearly every single movie he appears in, leaving the director of the next addition to come up with some ridiculous way for him to live on, and carry on the same killing of a group of young people story arc.

Here is a list of just some of the ways Jason has returned to life at the start of movies:

- Lightning striking a piece of metal that was impaled into his corpse, thus jumping his heart.

- Someone with telekinetic powers accidentally reviving him instead of a loved one.

- An underwater electrical cable.

- No explanation at all, he just reappears (Twice).

- Passing his heart onto another body

And don't even start on the movie that saw him end up 400 years in the future and killing people in space.