20 Horror Franchises That NEED To Come Back
These horror franchises have been on ice for WAY too long.
There's really no film genre more dependable than horror - as trends come and go elsewhere, horror has remained phenomenally popular, largely due to its lack of reliance on A-list names and lower costs of production.
It's little surprise, then, that most even remotely successful horror films end up getting a sequel or eight, because once producers are onto a sure thing, of course they want to wring it for every last drop.
Yet eventually most horror franchises end up falling off for a time, most often due to the filmmakers running dry of compelling ideas and this being reflected by diminishing commercial returns.
But few truly iconic horror franchises will remain dead forever, and so it's just a matter of time before somebody comes up with a way to bring them back.
We can only hope that'll hold true for these 20 horror franchises, each of which have been benched for a sweet while, leaving fans desperately clamouring for another go-around.
Some of these franchises will absolutely return eventually, while for other, more niche IP things are a little more up in the air...
20. Cube
Cube is one of the smartest and most deliriously entertaining horror films of the 1990s, making the most of its simple premise - what if a group of random strangers woke up in a maze of interconnected cubed rooms, many of which are rigged with deadly traps?
A middlingly received sequel, prequel, and Japanese remake followed in 2002, 2004, and 2021 respectively, though various other attempts to shock the franchise back to life have proven fruitless so far.
In 2011 Lionsgate began assembling Cube 3D which never came to pass, and then in 2015 they were said to be developing a reboot called Cubed, which again went nowhere.
As of 2022, the studio was said to still be taking pitches on a new movie.
The concept of Cube is so easily marketable to the masses that it's frankly astonishing somebody hasn't taken another crack at it.
How hard can it possibly be to reimagine Cube for modern sensibilities with some gnarly new traps?