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Horror/Scary: May 10, 2017 Issue [#8280]

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Horror/Scary


 This week: When does it all stop?
  Edited by: Andy~hating university Author IconMail Icon
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"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

Quote by Stephen King


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Letter from the editor

Franchises exist in all genres of movie from horror, to sci-fi, to anime, but sometimes they just go too far.

There are the franchises who sensibly stopped after three or four films, but there are some franchises that just seem to keep going like the Energizer Bunny. Other genres can sometimes get away with producing a large number of films in a series: Star Trek did it by switching from using the Original Series crew to using the Next Generation crew, James Bond did it by having a different villain in each film, and the Carry On films did it by changing the plot of each film. However, in the world of horror, you can't simply change the antagonist.

What would Halloween be without Michael Myers? Well, we all remember Halloween 3, right? Of course, you don't. Michael Myers wasn't in it, and it was a disaster of a movie, completely flopping at the box office and rarely is it rescreened on TV.

Two of the most iconic horror franchises from my childhood were Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. Before we dwell on my mother's parenting skills in allowing an eight-year-old to watch said films, these are two franchises who I felt went too far. Friday the 13th ran for eleven movies, Nightmare on Elm Street ran for eight movies, and there was even a crossover movie Jason vs Freddy..

Friday the 13th part VIII gave us a final resolution to the Jason Voorhies story arc, and the last four films felt as though they were trying to cash in on the franchise; Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday was about the best of the last four, and when an attempted reboot comes along, you just know a franchise is flogging a dead horse.

Nightmare on Elm Street really ended after the sixth movie, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, but they tried to continue the franchise with a bizarre the Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-franchise is really only a movie being filmed, and then the attempted reboot comes along.

These are just two of the horror series who really didn't know when to call it quits. Though these two don't hold a candle to the Witchcraft franchise, who have released sixteen films to date.


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Do you think the same is true in the world of literature? Can a series (such as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, etc.) spawn so many books,
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