9 Horror Movie Franchises That Literally Do The Same Thing Repeatedly

At just 22 years of age, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell teamed up to create the Evil Dead in 1981. It might have been ridiculously low budget and endured a production plucked straight out of a Deadite-filled nightmare, but the film revolving around five college kids' trip to an abandoned cabin in the woods immediately established itself as something unlike anything else that had come before it.

Giving the world the sinister Deadites, the Book of the Dead and the ever-dashing Ash Williams, the film's sequel, Evil Dead II, was released in 1987 and managed to improve on things in almost every way. The production was better, the effects were better, the tone was much more on point and the comedic aspects in particular were taken forward into every release in the series since.

However, Evil Dead II also marked the first instance of the series starting to go crazy with reshooting and replaying the exact same sequences from previous films over and over again. The whole first quarter of the film is basically just a replay of the events of the first film, something that Army of Darkness would also repeat when it followed in 1992, and the same acting deliveries and directorial decisions both in front of and behind the camera would also be the exact same over and over again going forward.

The Evil Dead franchise is known for its meta commentaries and self-parodying, however when entire chunks of the same movie are being shown across whole sequels, there's a little bit of an issue there.