9 Horror Movie Mistakes Confirmed By The Creators

It is the hallmark of any successful movie that a number of sequels will ultimately be made off the back of it, and in the horror genre, this is taken to more extreme lengths than usual. A Nightmare on Elm Street isn't the only franchise to have an absurd amount of sequels.

Alongside Friday the 13th and Hellraiser, Halloween has made it into double-digit numbers with Halloween Ends set to take the total up to 13 before 2022 is done. Any reasonable person can see that this is too many, but in the eyes of John Carpenter, even one sequel to his original 1978 movie was too many.

After directing the original, Carpenter co-wrote the first sequel three years later, and in 2014 admitted that the franchise should have ended with just one movie. He felt that there was no more story to tell after the first 90 minutes, but whether on the back of fan demands or producer demands, Michael Myers kept returning.

Carpenter even tried to end the franchise himself with Halloween II, seemingly killing off the man behind the mask, but the money kept coming in, and so did the sequels.