10 Horror Franchises Where The First Movie Is NOT The Best
3. Child's Play
The best instalment: Bride Of Chucky
Child's Play, blessed with one of the greatest slasher villains there will ever be - Chucky the killer doll (Brad Dourif) - is a franchise that's evolved on many occasions. It started out as straight slasher, then transition to horror comedy with the fourth and fifth films and then, when it returned with two straight-to-DVD sequels in the 2010s, it was a mixture of the two tones. Most recently, a successful Chucky TV show ran for three seasons.
The best so far? The 1988 original and 2013's Curse of Chucky deserve an honourable mention but, in the end, the crown jewel of the series has got to be 1998's Bride of Chucky. This movie is just a blast.
Hilarious, gory, thrilling, wacky and even kind-of sweet at times, Bride is a joyous horror comedy that ranks as one of the finest horror flicks of the 1990s (an infamously bad decade for horror), as well as one of the best slasher sequels out there. It might not be the most disciplined or serious of slasher flicks, but there aren't many others out there that are this much fun. Out of the many derivative works that followed the success of 1996's Scream, this is one of the very few that worked in the same way that movie did.