The Horror Thread Franchise Bracket • Page 2

So far we are up to sixteen responses. Not sure how many we want to run with. Do we think today is enough?

 

Wrong Turn
Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Predator
The Ring
The Exorcist
Leprechaun
Friday the 13th
The Conjuring
Hannibal
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills Have Eyes
Ringu
Blair Witch
Candy Man
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Alien
Urban legend
Ju-On
nsidious
Paranormal Activity
Saw
Wishmaster
Universal Dracula
Creepshow

This is what I ended up with.

I guess my hot take is the Conjuring franchise over the Evil Dead franchise.

 

All of these were pretty easy except for Romero’s Living Dead vs Conjuring.

But where is the Halloween franchise? Gotta be in R2, right? Also Friday the 13th should win the whole thing tbh

 

What I love about horror fandom is that I can deeply respect this opinion but also say fuck this Scream takes it.

 

If we were talking individual films then I’d agree, but when it comes to a franchise I gotta go with F13 solely for the first 4 films and part 6.

 

Halloween is in R2 and yes, F13 deserves the win imo

 

I can tell this is gonna get SCORCHING later.

 

My picks:

Wrong Turn vs. Critters - Love me some 80s crites

Scream vs. Child's Play - Child's Play would deserve the win in almost every other matchup, it's insanely consistent with only one stinker (Seed) for me. But Scream is one of the greatest movies of all time, and the formula for the sequels is always exciting

Nightmare on Elm Street vs. From Dusk Till Dawn - The one two punch of the OG Nightmare and Freddy's Revenge alone beats out most anything

Piranha vs. Predator - Fun!

Tremors vs. The Ring - Fun!

Psycho vs. The Exorcist - I haven't seen all The Exorcist movies, but 1 and 3 are enough to earn my vote!

Leprechaun vs. Puppet Master - Haven't seen all of either franchise but I'm down for the Lep, 3 is classic DTV schlock

Friday the 13th vs. Rec - My vote for the winner of the whole bracket, it just has everything. Endless rewatchability

George Romero's Dead vs. The Conjuring - They both have great movies and both have bad movies, but I think the Dead franchise has more bad movies!

Hannibal vs. Final Destination - Fun!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs. Universal Mummy - Even though Friday is my personal fave, TCM is in my opinion the most consistent franchise out there. No movie is less than a 7/10 to me

The Hills Have Eyes vs. The Howling - Haven't seen all The Howling movies, but I like the THHE makes me think strongly of the 70s AND the 2000s

V/H/S vs. Ringu - Fun!

Blair Witch vs. jaws - In both cases, I think everything after the originals suck, but I prefer The Blair Witch Project to Jaws!

Candy Man vs. Universal Frankenstein - Not much of a Universal guy!

Hammer Dracula vs. I Know What You Did Last Summer - ^ Ditto for Hammer!

Hammer Frankenstein vs. Alien - I don't actually like the Alien franchise much, but of these two I prefer it :/

Urban legend vs. Evil Dead - The Evil Dead > Urban Legend > Urban Legend 2 > the rest = Urban Legend win

Phantasm vs. Ju-On - Fun!

Return of the Living Dead vs. Insidious - Fun!

Paranormal Activity vs. Hatchet - PA was like my generation's Friday the 13th. I'm not even into ghost movies all that much but I gotta represent

Saw vs. Silent Night, Deadly Night - Actually just finished the Saw franchise for the first time tonight! The original is incredible, and then returns gradually diminish from there for me. SNDN has too 10/10s right off the jump

Universal Wolfman vs. Wishmaster - In this case I'll go Universal cuz Wishmaster sucks!

Resident Evil vs. Universal Dracula - ^ Ditto!

Hostel vs. Creepshow - Both good but Creepshow 2 pushes it over the edge for me

 

Calling TTCM the most consistent franchise is so ballsy I can't help but respect it lol

 

Tbf that's how I feel about Alien, so different strokes for different folks!

 

The Next Gen is a 10/10 what can I say!

 

Hahaha, it's a wild one for sure. About time for a rewatch.

 

How am I just noticing this thread lol

 

Seeing Urband Legend over Evil Dead made my eyelid twitch.

 

Controversial but correct.

 

Okay, I just sent Henry a screenshot of R2 so it should be smooth sailing from here

 

I still need to see some of these movies tbh lol

 

Got a busy weekend, so I'm gonna hold until Monday. Some folks are gonna be bummed out by these results lol. Some 50/50 races so far.

 

I’m gonna be shocked then because most of these were easy choices imo

 

Yea honestly there are only 1 or 2 pairings that I considered to be no-contest, but I may be surprised.

 

to whet your appetites.

 

I was waiting for this

 

Tf is universal Dracula