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A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween (2018)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I didn’t know if it would really be illuminating to go through the entire franchise before revisiting David Gordon Green’s version, but I think it has been

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. It’s almost a cliche that many major actors got their start in horror films, often pretty crappy ones. Naomi Watts in one of the Children of the Corn movies

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween II (2009)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I really dig Rob Zombie’s version of Halloween and its sequel. I had heard bad things about this particular sequel, how it was basically incomprehensible an

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Friday the 13th (2009)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. Thank God I am done with this franchise. It’s been a really long, mostly disappointing ride. I don’t necessarily regret watching all of them because I under

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween (2007)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. Rob Zombie has always been a peripheral figure in my life. A musician that my conservative parents would flip out about if they caught me listening to him.

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. The idea of a crossover movie is pure fan service, and after seeing this movie, it really is just that. I think just the prospect of seeing these two togeth

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. It makes sense this movie came out the same year as Jason X did. It’s very much geared towards the same audience, a young one made up of mostly horny, teena

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Jason X (2001)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. This may be the first movie in any of these franchises that would benefit from a bad movie night. One could argue that Friday the 13th jumped the shark many

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I gotta say, I really missed Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. I’m glad that she didn’t get stuck making these movies, one bad sequel after another, though

A Nightmare from Friday to Halloween - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I guess I have to appreciate an attempt to make an already tired series a bit deeper. Frankly though, Michael Myers never struck me as a nerd who got way to

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