Nightmare on Elm Street
-
IsraHell — 5 months ago(October 08, 2025 05:54 PM)
Halloween. Season of the Witch was an interesting departure, and I wish they made it an anthology series instead of all about Michael. I never found Halloween that interesting. I appreciate it for helping to establish a subgenre, but it's my least favorite of the main franchise. I also don't like how he's not supernatural, but behaves supernaturally. I know in later sequels, they made him more supernatural, but he wasn't supposed to be.
The Nightmare series is my favorite. There are a lot of bad sequels, but they're bad in a fun, visually appealing way… and 3 and New Nightmare are arguably better than the first.
I feel like the Friday sequels are mostly better than the first one, which is kind of boring. Not my favorite franchise, but I like it, especially when it's dumb.
Not mentioned here, but while Chucky isn't as much a fav as Freddy, I find all those movies are consistently good to okay. 2nd is my fav. -
cryptoflovecraft — 5 months ago(October 08, 2025 05:58 PM)
Halloween
The original Halloween is better than any Friday the 13th film but, overall, the Friday sequels are more entertaining than the Halloween sequels (the excellent Halloween III: Season of the Witch being the one exception). We got to see the evolution of Jason in the first four Friday films, whereas Michael Myers never really changed. Most of the Halloween sequels are interchangeable and forgettable; the 2018 reboot was pretty good though and better than the previous sequels. I never liked the NOES sequels but I haven't seen all of them. -
Paul P. Powell — 5 months ago(October 09, 2025 11:32 PM)
I can't name any horror movie ever, which ever enjoyed any sequel which was worth a damn.
Sequels in general are worse than horsefly excrement. Nothing is lower than fly s**t.
By and large, I refuse to bother wit' 'em.
Yes of course, I've seen a few –by accident, against the advice of my better angels – but at the end of the day, I can use no more than the fingers of just this one hand to list the ones which were palatable.
If I recall, there's only this meager passel of titles which make the grade:
French Connection II
Rocky II
Star Trek II
If you name almost any major franchise within range of my earshot you'll find a black mark against it in my book. Star Wars, Raiders, nothing but boojwaah, to my way of thinking.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player -
Lilith — 6 years ago(September 01, 2019 03:00 AM)
I know! It's funny watching that movie now and recognizing our little Johnnie Depp as a young lad, and see how far he's come. Truth is, I still find him adorable.
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith -
️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 6 years ago(September 01, 2019 03:02 AM)Yea, I borrowed them from Netflix. He was attractive in his first appearance.
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish?
..?