Horror Movie Franchises
Horror Movie Franchises
The Final Destination Franchise
Premise: If you have a premonition that you're going to die, you may as well let it happen, because Death is going to come get you one way or another, and it'll probably be painful. The Final Destination series is a slasher of sorts with a most unusual villain: Death itself. You see, Death has a plan, and interrupting the plan will only buy you a little time before Death comes back …
Premise: If you have a premonition that you're going to die, you may as well let it happen, because Death is going to come get you one way or another, and it'll probably be painful. The Final Destination series is a slasher of sorts with a most unusual villain: Death itself. You see, Death has a plan, and interrupting the plan will only buy you a little time before Death comes back …
The Scream Franchise
Premise: Everyone wants a piece of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). That is, everyone wants her in pieces. In each film, a masked killer in a black robe stalks her -- first in her hometown, then in college and finally in Los Angeles. Each time, the killer is revealed to be a different person, although all of the culprits have ties to each other and have a fondness for crank phone calls. Al…
Premise: Everyone wants a piece of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). That is, everyone wants her in pieces. In each film, a masked killer in a black robe stalks her -- first in her hometown, then in college and finally in Los Angeles. Each time, the killer is revealed to be a different person, although all of the culprits have ties to each other and have a fondness for crank phone calls. Al…
The 'Halloween' Movie Franchise
Premise: Michael Myers has family problems. The problem is: they're alive, and he wants them dead. He kills his older sister when he's a child and tries to kill his younger sister, his niece and her child when he's older. Tracking Michael on his killing spree is Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist who treated the murderer for most of his life and who will tell anyone who listens just how e…
Premise: Michael Myers has family problems. The problem is: they're alive, and he wants them dead. He kills his older sister when he's a child and tries to kill his younger sister, his niece and her child when he's older. Tracking Michael on his killing spree is Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist who treated the murderer for most of his life and who will tell anyone who listens just how e…
The A Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise
Premise: Child murderer and all around nasty guy Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is killed by a lynch mob after he's released from jail due to a technicality. As he dies, he makes a deal with demonic forces to give him the power to enter and manipulate people's dreams. He uses this power to exact revenge on the now-teenaged children of the people who burned him alive. If Freddy kills someo…
Premise: Child murderer and all around nasty guy Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is killed by a lynch mob after he's released from jail due to a technicality. As he dies, he makes a deal with demonic forces to give him the power to enter and manipulate people's dreams. He uses this power to exact revenge on the now-teenaged children of the people who burned him alive. If Freddy kills someo…
The Friday the 13th Franchise
Premise: In 1957, 11-year-old Jason Vorhees drowns at Camp Crystal Lake because the counselors are busy having sex to rescue a deformed child. The next year, two counselors are killed, almost as if they're being punished for something...? The camp closes and doesn't reopen until 1979, when Jason's mother kills six counselors before dying herself. Jason, not dead after all, picks up where h…
Premise: In 1957, 11-year-old Jason Vorhees drowns at Camp Crystal Lake because the counselors are busy having sex to rescue a deformed child. The next year, two counselors are killed, almost as if they're being punished for something...? The camp closes and doesn't reopen until 1979, when Jason's mother kills six counselors before dying herself. Jason, not dead after all, picks up where h…
The Final Destination Franchise
Summary of the 'Final Destination' franchise. Death doesn't have a sense of humor.
Summary of the 'Final Destination' franchise. Death doesn't have a sense of humor.
The Friday the 13th Franchise
Summary of the 'Friday the 13th' slasher franchise. Jason Vorhees stalks nubile teens at Camp Crystal Lake over and over and over again. You'd think they'd learn...?
Summary of the 'Friday the 13th' slasher franchise. Jason Vorhees stalks nubile teens at Camp Crystal Lake over and over and over again. You'd think they'd learn...?
The Halloween Franchise
Summary of the 'Halloween' franchise. Michael Myers has family problems. The problem is: they're alive, and he wants them dead.
Summary of the 'Halloween' franchise. Michael Myers has family problems. The problem is: they're alive, and he wants them dead.
The A Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise
Summary of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' franchise. Undead child murderer Freddy Krueger has the power to kill people in their dreams.
Summary of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' franchise. Undead child murderer Freddy Krueger has the power to kill people in their dreams.
The Scream Franchise
Summary of the 'Scream' slasher movie franchise. A masked killer in a black robe makes crank phone calls that end in death.
Summary of the 'Scream' slasher movie franchise. A masked killer in a black robe makes crank phone calls that end in death.