Battle of the Horror movie franchises

I was inspired by the great Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars battles, so I figured I'd set up a 16 bracket horror movie fanchise tournment. I tried to come up with the 16 most popular, I limited to series with 2 or more sequels (at least 3 films total) And I tried to avoid ones that were completely comedy, like Evil Dead andf Toxic Avenger. Well any here is what I came up with, everyone agree?

1.Friday the 13th
2.Nightmare on Elm Street
3.Halloween
4.Night of the Living Dead
5.Child’s play
6.Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7.Hellraiser
8.Leprechaun
9.Children of the Corn
10.Puppet Master
11.Phantasm
12. Basket Case
13.Reanimator
14. Saw
15.Candyman
16.Pumpkinhead


I took off Wishmaster for Pumpkinhead.

What about Pumpkinhead?

I was thinking about that, but there is only really one good movie out of the Franchise and I think most people have only seen that one, it's not abad choice but what would it replace?

i would like to add:

Devil's Reject

denger4000 said:

I was thinking about that, but there is only really one good movie out of the Franchise and I think most people have only seen that one, it's not abad choice but what would it replace?

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So you're saying that there was even one good Leprechaun movie?

yeah, i'd have Pumpkinhead before Leprechaun

TOE said:

i would like to add:

Devil's Reject

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Great film but not a Franchise, at the very most it's two movies.

And yes, the Leprechaun rules!

Romero's Dead series is not on the list? :eek
Methinks Basket Case gets the boot to make room for zombies.

Zombies over Basket Case!

Zombies is already there, number 4.

For a purely cheese factor the Sleepaway Camp films were great.

BTW I love the Basket Case movies great B films

allthough I'm not a great fan, you could ad Scream as well ...
and what about Psycho ? Norman Bates is a horror icon and more important then leprechaun or pumpkinhead !

Um... Howzabout them Frankenstein flickers?

Talk about yer horror icons...

denger4000 said:

Zombies is already there, number 4.

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Dirp. I pay attention really well.

Critters yo! Angela Bassett, Leo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, all the big names were in the Critters series.

I avoided really classic horror which explains why Norman bates and Frankenstein are not there, I thought about critters but I think every thing on there is better.

denger4000 said:

I avoided really classic horror which explains why Norman bates and Frankenstein are not there, I thought about critters but I think every thing on there is better.

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Did you ?
why did you add Freddy and Jason then?
Certainly Freddy, he's a true classic ! and Pinhead ...

come on...

Perhaps the battle should be between horror icons, not the movies, like how the LotR vs. SW polls went.

Example: While the Chucky movies were better, Pumpkinhead would, most likely, wail on the poor doll until he was a plastic shell of his former self.

Why arnt Ghostface or Ben Willis on that list surely there more well known

I didn't put Scream because Scream=meh and Ben Willis? huh? who?