I would argue that Halloween bounced back twice. Once with H2O and again with Halloween (2018). The series does have a tendency to bounce back and then immediately sink to lower and lower depths afterwards (Resurrection, Kills/Ends).
@@alanguages I see your point. I just can't get into Rob Zombie's work. I acknowledge he's a visionary. I just hate his vision. BUT, if I could get into Rob Zombie, then I'd agree with you that 2007 was a bounce back followed by a precipitous decline.
I must be alone in liking Kills. It further developed returning characters, and had some solid kills. Though, I think both 2018 and Kills have the same problem in that they artificially force an open ending for the sake of a sequel. Also, another detriment to Kills was the death of Karen Strode; mean move to end on shock value.
I wanted to like the 2018 film, but it seems no one making any of these films actually understood what the first film was about and who Michael Myers is. _Season of the Witch_ is the only one that got it right - stop trying to continue a story that doesn't need to be continued.
I feel Evil Dead should be on this. Not that it experienced a decline (Army of Darkness was wonderful) so much as just disappeared. Then we got Ash vs Evil Dead which was so much more than we hoped. Still have fingers crossed for season 4.
@@nightangel972000yeah, non fans of Evil Dead love it. People in the Evil Dead fanbase don’t care that much about it but people that don’t really keep up with the series love it
Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a clinic on how to not only revitalize a franchise, but how to make it a successful love letter to the fans in the process. Star Wars should have taken notes.
Chucky and Scream are. They acknowledge the meta and comedy of horror. Also, the only two voice actors that have been in most of the franchise (I’m gonna ignore child’s play remake and the first two seasons of Scream). Thanks Brad Dourif and Roger Jackson❤
Man, I never hear people talk about the Exorcist TV show. I watched it because I was bored, and blown away when it actually turned out to be solid. But nobody ever seems to talk about it. Part of me thought that maybe the whole thing was just a fever dream.
I cant believe out of all the boogeymen out there (Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers etc) the last man standing is Chucky. Bro really has multiple movies and a current show still airing this year.
Man, I really thought that if I made videos on Child's Play while the Chucky show was airing, they would do well but they actually did worse than like any of the other ones. Fortunately I learn from my mistakes and the ones following are doing much better.
I don’t think Chucky declined I feel like seed of Chucky needed to happen it was like the series taking a break from the scariness so when curse and cult of Chucky came out it was the revamp and refreshed the fans to the character and the show is basically the perfect shift into the next chapter but that’s just my opinion.
It always comes back to story. Tell the best story you can, and that means get the best writers you can. There are many factors to success, but a crap plot and you're going nowhere.
Tell that to the Marvel movies. Or the hosts of conjurings, insidiouses, ouijas etc. Market and advertise it well enough and even the critics will love it no matter how poor the writing is.
GHOSTBUSTERS: Interesting to see that on this list as most of us dont see it as a Horror Movie, but yeah... It is... A Comedy Horror but still a Horror! And as for the 2016 Reboot... For what its worth, I enjoyed it but it was pretty poor... And I think this quote says it best: "A Reboot that, despite the best efforts of all involved, just wasn't that memorable" YEAH, That really is the issue... I have only taken my time to see Afterlife ONCE, But there are so many scenes that while I cannot quote - Which is where it is not as strong as the Original 2 Films, I can VIVIDLY see in my head... Not just scenes from the trailers... But Scenes from the movie! Where if I where sat with someone who had never seen it - I would be screaming "OH YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS BIT!" You know, Its funny but every franchise that has been come back on this list always has something very memorable or a lines that are always quoted...
I don't know how when I can't stop seeing _Halloween_ fans going about how it's the best sequel or when watching with the original it's "like one long movie". Can't be that underrated when there's so much wanking off to it.
Hellraiser. People angry at the new cenobite obviously hadn't read the book. Yes, that original hell-priest was played amazingly well by Doug Bradley, but that wasn't how the book portrayed them.
You can tell Nightmare On Elm Street was supposed to be only a trilogy. Because by definition a trilogy is where the three films were originally thought up together and parts 1 and 3 connect to each other where part 2 is just filler and does not truly relate to the first or third
I can't believe people really liked Ghostbusters 2. I've seen the movie, and I just can't. I also think that the nostalgia was the big issue of Afterlife (but also the reason fans would have liked it regardless of actual quality). The new characters are even interesting, it's just so bad they have to take a backseat to fanservice (which spoils the plot, honestly, between the cliché "the heroes are sad because they are old", and people forgetting that ghosts had been scientifically proved to exist for 30 years just because), and we had to bring back Gozer because God forbid we ever tried doing anything new.
@@nicwelch "many" you did the same thing, how many exactly? I have an issue with bigots who say the movie is "bad" because a transgender actress played pinhead.
The Creepshow TV show is hit and miss, but still better than Creepshow 3. Halloween ALMOST bounced back, and then Halloween Ends came along and ruined everything. Friday the 13th still needs a good sequel or reboot. Six and Seven were the last ones considered good by fans. Saw I gave up on after how bad saw 3 was, I literally fell asleep watching it in the cinema. I do need to give the rest of the franchise a watch at some point though. The Exorcist is absolutely overrated but I have heard mixed reviews on the show, I haven't actually seen it yet. Child's play I'm Torn on. The show isn't bad, but it's also not good. It just kinda exists.
Saw was good until 5. 6 was ok but 7 is the 2nd worst after 5. I used to like Jigsaw when it came out but looking back now I can see all of its flaws and problems. Spiral was actually really good though, and so was X
Hey horror franchises. You don't have to wrap anything up, if it's supernatural. Boogermen can booger people every day, or every once in a while. They don't work on the same schedule as regular folks.
@@zer0_iz_d34dEvery Spierig brothers movie is trash (jigsaw, spiral, X). Also the second “quadrilogy” (4,5,6,7) was mostly bad with the exception of 6. The original trilogy was easily the best, seeing as it followed Leigh Wannell’s vision for the series. The movies suffered without him, but 6 managed to briefly recapture the originals’ spirit.
I still don't get what's great about _H20._ No Loomis, the mask looks like shit (you're not supposed to see his eyes), and it looks way too glossy and never really feels like a Halloween film. Not just in terms of the feel of the series up to that point, but also in terms of it never really gives off the atmosphere that it takes place on Halloween.
Again; everyone hated the wannabe hellraiser. From a member of the audience on rotten tomatoes, not critic and it pretty much echoes everyone else. “When Netflix squeezed out the steaming pile of excrement that it called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", Hulu must've been watching and immediately sprang up and exclaimed, "We can destroy a franchise better than that! Hold my beer!". This was a big lump of excrement wrapped in a Hellraiser wrapper. This was like the "made-for-TV-remake" of Hellraiser. It wasn't even scary ACCIDENTALLY, the gore was barely present, and you couldn't care LESS about ANY of the characters. If you watched the original Hellraisers and thought, "Hey! Why can't they kill off more minorities and people of different orientations?" Then THIS is the Hellraiser for you. If you watched the original Hellraisers and thought, "Hey! Why aren't there more women and trans-folk as Cenobites?" Then THIS is the Hellraiser for you. The director, the actors, writers, and anyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed of themselves and should feel guilty every time they visit the bank to cash their paychecks. This was SO bad, I doubt it will even get the protection of RT, who generally swoop in and delete reviews like this one--to protect "THE MESSAGE".
I dont think there are any bad Nightmare on Elm St movies. Except the remake so this one doesnt fit on this list for me. its the opposite... it was a great franchise then they tried to redo and it was shite
@user-lb9xw4xf2q But it's not a horror comedy. Imdb has listed it under 6 genres and not one of them is horror. It's just not a horror movie and it shouldn't be in this list.
I'd normally be like "it can still count", but to me it counts _less_ than a series notoriously missing here: Final Destination 1 & 2 - great 3 - Ok 4 - Turrible 5 - Almost as good as 1 & 2
@@W422UP Its horror to me before any other genre, but that is my view. The first movie especially can be counted in the horror genre(the 2016 movie is a horror on humanity). Both Ghostbusters 2 and GB Afterlife also have horror elements, so i count it in the genre. Again, its my view, others might think differently. It at least should be called a comedy horror or vice versa.
Halloween 2 is a poorly written film, which destroyed everything great about the original. A sub par performance for Michael, suspense replaced by over the top kills, the soundtrack totally butchered with a dance-esque version of the theme and one of the laziest, most unnecessary twists in horror history.
I would argue that Halloween bounced back twice. Once with H2O and again with Halloween (2018). The series does have a tendency to bounce back and then immediately sink to lower and lower depths afterwards (Resurrection, Kills/Ends).
I would add Halloween (2007) did come back then died with it's sequel Halloween II (2009).
@@alanguages I see your point. I just can't get into Rob Zombie's work. I acknowledge he's a visionary. I just hate his vision.
BUT, if I could get into Rob Zombie, then I'd agree with you that 2007 was a bounce back followed by a precipitous decline.
I must be alone in liking Kills. It further developed returning characters, and had some solid kills. Though, I think both 2018 and Kills have the same problem in that they artificially force an open ending for the sake of a sequel. Also, another detriment to Kills was the death of Karen Strode; mean move to end on shock value.
I wanted to like the 2018 film, but it seems no one making any of these films actually understood what the first film was about and who Michael Myers is. _Season of the Witch_ is the only one that got it right - stop trying to continue a story that doesn't need to be continued.
Did you really just talk about Chucky and NOT mention Jennifer Tilly.
As for A Nightmare On Elm Street, nothing beats the original.
I feel Evil Dead should be on this. Not that it experienced a decline (Army of Darkness was wonderful) so much as just disappeared. Then we got Ash vs Evil Dead which was so much more than we hoped. Still have fingers crossed for season 4.
2013 did really well at the box office. The fanbase doesn’t like it but it was a commercial success
@@zer0_iz_d34dReally? All I ever hear is people praising that movie. Apparently many like it better than the original, but less than 2 and AoD.
@@nightangel972000yeah, non fans of Evil Dead love it. People in the Evil Dead fanbase don’t care that much about it but people that don’t really keep up with the series love it
Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a clinic on how to not only revitalize a franchise, but how to make it a successful love letter to the fans in the process. Star Wars should have taken notes.
Did Chucky "bounce back"? It seems like its the most solid franchise in horror over all, and certainly the best one on this list.
Chucky and Scream are amazingly consistent.
Chucky and Scream are. They acknowledge the meta and comedy of horror. Also, the only two voice actors that have been in most of the franchise (I’m gonna ignore child’s play remake and the first two seasons of Scream). Thanks Brad Dourif and Roger Jackson❤
Agreed the only Chucky movie I can't watch is child play 3 other than that they're all great to me
Man, I never hear people talk about the Exorcist TV show. I watched it because I was bored, and blown away when it actually turned out to be solid. But nobody ever seems to talk about it. Part of me thought that maybe the whole thing was just a fever dream.
The 2021 Slumber Party Massacre was one of the highlights of that year for me. I love that movie!
I cant believe out of all the boogeymen out there (Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers etc) the last man standing is Chucky. Bro really has multiple movies and a current show still airing this year.
I’ve seen creep show 2 so many times it’s actually my favorite.
what about the original?
Man, I really thought that if I made videos on Child's Play while the Chucky show was airing, they would do well but they actually did worse than like any of the other ones. Fortunately I learn from my mistakes and the ones following are doing much better.
yep, and I'm not ashamed @Stang2023
I need to start working on watching these movies. Also amazing video! ❤
How the hell did Scream not make this list?!
I don’t think Chucky declined I feel like seed of Chucky needed to happen it was like the series taking a break from the scariness so when curse and cult of Chucky came out it was the revamp and refreshed the fans to the character and the show is basically the perfect shift into the next chapter but that’s just my opinion.
Is it wrong that Seed of Chucky is one of my favourites?
Man I really need to rewatch the chucky TV series I absolutely loved it
H20 was my introduction to Halloween. I loved it. Glad to see it given it's due
I wouldn’t say they bounced back, not all of them. I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks this.
Would like to add in the Psycho movies with few years back the tv show Bates Motel which I enjoyed
It always comes back to story. Tell the best story you can, and that means get the best writers you can. There are many factors to success, but a crap plot and you're going nowhere.
Tell that to the Marvel movies.
Or the hosts of conjurings, insidiouses, ouijas etc.
Market and advertise it well enough and even the critics will love it no matter how poor the writing is.
GHOSTBUSTERS: Interesting to see that on this list as most of us dont see it as a Horror Movie, but yeah... It is... A Comedy Horror but still a Horror!
And as for the 2016 Reboot... For what its worth, I enjoyed it but it was pretty poor... And I think this quote says it best: "A Reboot that, despite the best efforts of all involved, just wasn't that memorable"
YEAH, That really is the issue... I have only taken my time to see Afterlife ONCE, But there are so many scenes that while I cannot quote - Which is where it is not as strong as the Original 2 Films, I can VIVIDLY see in my head... Not just scenes from the trailers... But Scenes from the movie! Where if I where sat with someone who had never seen it - I would be screaming "OH YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS BIT!"
You know, Its funny but every franchise that has been come back on this list always has something very memorable or a lines that are always quoted...
Halloween II is very underrated
I don't know how when I can't stop seeing _Halloween_ fans going about how it's the best sequel or when watching with the original it's "like one long movie". Can't be that underrated when there's so much wanking off to it.
Halloween 2 isn’t underrated, the new trilogy is too overrated
You said H-twenty not H2O, thank you! It's bugged me for years. It's not Halloween water, it's Halloween 20 years later!
Hellraiser. People angry at the new cenobite obviously hadn't read the book. Yes, that original hell-priest was played amazingly well by Doug Bradley, but that wasn't how the book portrayed them.
Halloween franchise in a nutshell:
Is great, it's over, we are back, it's so over, we are back again, it's over for real.
What? How dare you disparage Creepshow 2!
Creepshow 2 is awesome
Thanks for the ride lady! 😁
It’s fine but the original is still the best
You can tell Nightmare On Elm Street was supposed to be only a trilogy. Because by definition a trilogy is where the three films were originally thought up together and parts 1 and 3 connect to each other where part 2 is just filler and does not truly relate to the first or third
I can't believe people really liked Ghostbusters 2. I've seen the movie, and I just can't.
I also think that the nostalgia was the big issue of Afterlife (but also the reason fans would have liked it regardless of actual quality).
The new characters are even interesting, it's just so bad they have to take a backseat to fanservice (which spoils the plot, honestly, between the cliché "the heroes are sad because they are old", and people forgetting that ghosts had been scientifically proved to exist for 30 years just because), and we had to bring back Gozer because God forbid we ever tried doing anything new.
I loved Halloween 4-6 😭
A top list great job guys 🖤
Jason Voorhees is the goat
The smidge of horror in ghostbusters was Olivia Wilde, wasn't it?
I’m sorry @8:30 did you just refer to the movie with Slow Ass Mother Fuckin’ Jeff as one of the best Saw movies?
''Despite the best intentions of everyone involved'', nah the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot stunk to high heaven to most people.
"Most people" how many people is that exactly and how do you know this? Did you take survey?
@@simplylethulWhy are you so emotional about this? Many people disliked it. What’s wrong with that?
@@nicwelch "many" you did the same thing, how many exactly? I have an issue with bigots who say the movie is "bad" because a transgender actress played pinhead.
The Creepshow TV show is hit and miss, but still better than Creepshow 3. Halloween ALMOST bounced back, and then Halloween Ends came along and ruined everything. Friday the 13th still needs a good sequel or reboot. Six and Seven were the last ones considered good by fans. Saw I gave up on after how bad saw 3 was, I literally fell asleep watching it in the cinema. I do need to give the rest of the franchise a watch at some point though. The Exorcist is absolutely overrated but I have heard mixed reviews on the show, I haven't actually seen it yet. Child's play I'm Torn on. The show isn't bad, but it's also not good. It just kinda exists.
Saw was good until 5. 6 was ok but 7 is the 2nd worst after 5. I used to like Jigsaw when it came out but looking back now I can see all of its flaws and problems. Spiral was actually really good though, and so was X
They should bring back the exorcist tv show
Don't ever talk sh*t about Tales from the Darkside. That show was awesome, and equalled to Tales from the Crypt and Monsters.
Halloween kills and ends weren't as bad as people say
Hey horror franchises. You don't have to wrap anything up, if it's supernatural. Boogermen can booger people every day, or every once in a while. They don't work on the same schedule as regular folks.
Saw X was the absolute worst in the entire franchise.
The only thing horrifying in this movie was Amanda's God awful wig.
Nah Saw 5, 7, and Jigsaw are the worst
@@zer0_iz_d34dEvery Spierig brothers movie is trash (jigsaw, spiral, X). Also the second “quadrilogy” (4,5,6,7) was mostly bad with the exception of 6. The original trilogy was easily the best, seeing as it followed Leigh Wannell’s vision for the series. The movies suffered without him, but 6 managed to briefly recapture the originals’ spirit.
I still don't get what's great about _H20._ No Loomis, the mask looks like shit (you're not supposed to see his eyes), and it looks way too glossy and never really feels like a Halloween film. Not just in terms of the feel of the series up to that point, but also in terms of it never really gives off the atmosphere that it takes place on Halloween.
Agreed. Although I do really like the final act & showdown.
Why do so many UK people pronounce the letter H incorrectly?
I was not aware a woman has ever played pinhead.
No Terror Train???
Again; everyone hated the wannabe hellraiser. From a member of the audience on rotten tomatoes, not critic and it pretty much echoes everyone else.
“When Netflix squeezed out the steaming pile of excrement that it called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", Hulu must've been watching and immediately sprang up and exclaimed, "We can destroy a franchise better than that! Hold my beer!". This was a big lump of excrement wrapped in a Hellraiser wrapper. This was like the "made-for-TV-remake" of Hellraiser. It wasn't even scary ACCIDENTALLY, the gore was barely present, and you couldn't care LESS about ANY of the characters. If you watched the original Hellraisers and thought, "Hey! Why can't they kill off more minorities and people of different orientations?" Then THIS is the Hellraiser for you. If you watched the original Hellraisers and thought, "Hey! Why aren't there more women and trans-folk as Cenobites?" Then THIS is the Hellraiser for you. The director, the actors, writers, and anyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed of themselves and should feel guilty every time they visit the bank to cash their paychecks. This was SO bad, I doubt it will even get the protection of RT, who generally swoop in and delete reviews like this one--to protect "THE MESSAGE".
Not everyone hated it..mostly just trashy bigots.
Amazing video what culture horror.
Dead of Night (1945) is the greatest horror anthology of all time, not Creepshow.
I dont think there are any bad Nightmare on Elm St movies. Except the remake so this one doesnt fit on this list for me. its the opposite... it was a great franchise then they tried to redo and it was shite
Hellraiser was not well received her in the states.
Can we stop putting Ghostbusters in the horror category
Horror comedy can still count
@user-lb9xw4xf2q very true
@user-lb9xw4xf2q But it's not a horror comedy.
Imdb has listed it under 6 genres and not one of them is horror.
It's just not a horror movie and it shouldn't be in this list.
I'd normally be like "it can still count", but to me it counts _less_ than a series notoriously missing here: Final Destination
1 & 2 - great
3 - Ok
4 - Turrible
5 - Almost as good as 1 & 2
@@W422UP Its horror to me before any other genre, but that is my view. The first movie especially can be counted in the horror genre(the 2016 movie is a horror on humanity). Both Ghostbusters 2 and GB Afterlife also have horror elements, so i count it in the genre. Again, its my view, others might think differently. It at least should be called a comedy horror or vice versa.
The moment I saw Hellraiser it was an instant dislike to the video.
EXORCIST: BELIEVER was not a bad movie. 🖕🏾🤬
Ghostbusters is not horror.
Chucky had one of the best bounce back. After the cult of Chucky, I really thought it was done. But the tv show saved it
Hellraiser (2022) was unfortunately just as bad as everything since Bloodline. It did not bounce back.
Ghostbusters is NOT a horror franchise
Saw X and the diversity hire of a pinhead in hellraiser sucked and shouldn’t have been made.
Ask any queer women whether the third Ghostbusters movie was memorable. Kate Mackinnon licking her gun what?
I really didn't like the Hellraiser reboot. Not because of a female hell priest.... but because it just sucked!
How did Hellraiser bounce back? All the protagonist were annoying d bags.😕
Because if you say it’s bad/don’t like it, then you’re sexist. She was fine, but certainly no Doug Bradley.
And the Lament configuration in the 'boot looked like it was 3-D printed by a high-school kid.
@@CorporalGrievous93 "She"? you might wanna do a lil research before making such an asinine comment.
@@KardboardKenny Okay, Matt Walsh.
@@multitudeofidols facts, bitch. plain and simple.
I'm sorry but H2O is hot garbage.
Frist 4 hellraisers are great after that there terrible
The original Exorcist isn't even scary.
It scared people back in the day
@@oliviav.3565 fair, but I also first watched it when I was about 12 and still wasn't scared.
@@cppblank It never scared me either but it's still very good, iconic. Actually is incredibly rare for a horror flick to scare me.
2022 "Hellraiser" cast a *male* to portray Pinhead. Sorry, not my rules...just facts
Cry more.
@@simplylethul lol. I'll just laugh at the looney troons.
@@AlphaFoxAdam I think you'll get laughed at, since you don't understand the difference between sex and gender identity.
@@AlphaFoxAdam you can't fix ignorant, shitters like you.
@@simplylethul umm...the person portraying Pinhead is a male...as in, XY. Lmao. Want to try again? 😆
Hellraiser 2022 was garbage! Also, still a dude playing Pinhead...just saying
New Halloweens sucked too
Adding "just saying" doesn't make your statement true.
@@simplylethulThat’s a man. Sorry.
@@nicwelch you sound like that dipshit, Matt Walsh, who got destroyed when he kept asking "what is a woman."
@@nicwelch brain chemistry is more complicated than anyone in a youtube comment section understand, but, there's educators that can inform you.
Halloween 2 is a poorly written film, which destroyed everything great about the original. A sub par performance for Michael, suspense replaced by over the top kills, the soundtrack totally butchered with a dance-esque version of the theme and one of the laziest, most unnecessary twists in horror history.
Chucky series is dogshit and has done more damage to the series with all the woke nonsense in it.