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90's horror franchises

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Meow Mix

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Movie 1: Final girl survives, semi-serious in tone
Movie 2: New protagonist, never as good as the first film, a little goofier
Movie 3: Final girl from the first film is back, much goofier
Movie 4: Campfest from here on out, explores backstory of villain
Movie 5: Now it's in space!

With some slight variations, this is the formula
 
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Meow Mix

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I'm not going to lie, I miss horror franchises that aren't the absolutely terrible Conjuring-verse. The Conjuring is the worst thing to have happened to horror.
 
The Hammer

The Hammer

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Meow Mix said:
Movie 1: Final girl survives, semi-serious in tone
Movie 2: New protagonist, never as good as the first film, a little goofier
Movie 3: Final girl from the first film is back, much goofier
Movie 4: Campfest from here on out, explores backstory of villain
Movie 5: Now it's in space!

With some slight variations, this is the formula
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) - Wikipedia

This was a nine movie franchise.

There's also 47 Halloween movies haha
 
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
Off the top of my head:

Hellraiser 1: follows the formula
Hellraiser 2: does have original final girl returning, so slightly out of order
Hellraiser 3: this is where the new protagonist is introduced, and I'm pretty sure original final girl shows up too (and dies). Much campier. Goes from "Cenobites are beings with such alien morality that we might consider them evil, but they aren't evil per se" to "yeah they're just evil demons now"
Hellraiser 4: both explores the antagonist's past AND is set in space!

Nightmare on Elm Street 1: follows the formula
NoES2: follows the formula
NoES3: follows the formula (Nancy returns)
NoES4: Total campfest from here on out. (We never get to space though. But Freddy vs Jason was awesome.)

Critters 1: follows the formula, except not a final girl per se but final family
Critters 2: follows the formula
Critters 3: Protags don't return from the first though
Critters 4: Now it's in space!

Leprechaun 1: follows the formula
Leprechaun 2: follows the formula
Leprechaun 3: Gets more into the Leprechaun's backstory
Now I don't remember the order, but first we go to the hood but eventually to SPACE!
 
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
Oh man the Wishmaster series gets so delightfully campy by the 3rd and 4th films that there are parts I just can't stop laughing through. Like the angel vs. jinn sword fight
 
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Meow Mix

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I'm watching NoES3 and I somehow always forget that Lawrence Fishburne is in this. Just like I always forget that Leonardo DiCaprio is in Critters 3
 
Augustus

Augustus

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Meow Mix said:
Movie 1: Final girl survives, semi-serious in tone
Movie 2: New protagonist, never as good as the first film, a little goofier
Movie 3: Final girl from the first film is back, much goofier
Movie 4: Campfest from here on out, explores backstory of villain
Movie 5: Now it's in space!

With some slight variations, this is the formula
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Movie 6: 2010s remake which you know will be ludicrously terrible, watch anyway and it is still worse than you could possibly have imagined... ***cough, Nightmare on Elm Street, cough***
 
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
Augustus said:
Movie 6: 2010s remake which you know will be ludicrously terrible, watch anyway and it is still worse than you could possibly have imagined... ***cough, Nightmare on Elm Street, cough***
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Though isn’t NoES6 Freddy’s Dead?

Or am I mixing it up with Jason’s Dead
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Meow Mix said:
Movie 1: Final girl survives, semi-serious in tone
Movie 2: New protagonist, never as good as the first film, a little goofier
Movie 3: Final girl from the first film is back, much goofier
Movie 4: Campfest from here on out, explores backstory of villain
Movie 5: Now it's in space!

With some slight variations, this is the formula
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Where's the creativity anymore?

Btw, you forget the formula that girl runs around in her underwear and tight t shirt all sweaty after meeting her nemesis.

Exhibit A ...


 
Kooky

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
Meow Mix said:
Off the top of my head:

Hellraiser 1: follows the formula
Hellraiser 2: does have original final girl returning, so slightly out of order
Hellraiser 3: this is where the new protagonist is introduced, and I'm pretty sure original final girl shows up too (and dies). Much campier. Goes from "Cenobites are beings with such alien morality that we might consider them evil, but they aren't evil per se" to "yeah they're just evil demons now"
Hellraiser 4: both explores the antagonist's past AND is set in space!

Nightmare on Elm Street 1: follows the formula
NoES2: follows the formula
NoES3: follows the formula (Nancy returns)
NoES4: Total campfest from here on out. (We never get to space though. But Freddy vs Jason was awesome.)

Critters 1: follows the formula, except not a final girl per se but final family
Critters 2: follows the formula
Critters 3: Protags don't return from the first though
Critters 4: Now it's in space!

Leprechaun 1: follows the formula
Leprechaun 2: follows the formula
Leprechaun 3: Gets more into the Leprechaun's backstory
Now I don't remember the order, but first we go to the hood but eventually to SPACE!
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Point of contention: Except for Leprechaun, all of those franchises started in the 1980s!
 
Kooky

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
Meow Mix said:
True; but the trends mostly occurred in the 90’s
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Point taken.

EDIT: By the way, I found it kind of interesting how Scary Movie managed to parody not just the genre, but the 90s formula, especially in 3 where the protagonist stayed the same, but with her hair dyed blonde and a different backstory (and a bf and kid).
Unfortunately they never went to space, which I considered a major failing of the franchise even then.
 
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
Kooky said:
Point taken.

By the way, I found it kind of interesting how Scary Movie managed to parody not just the genre, but the 90s formula, especially in 3 where the protagonist stayed the same, but with her hair dyed blonde and a different backstory (and a bf and kid).
Unfortunately they never went to space, which I considered a major failing of the franchise even then.
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Scream was a special phenomenon. I would have welcomed a space Scream with open arms.

I mean it took Jason 10 mainstream films to get there. It coulda happened.
 
Kooky

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
Meow Mix said:
Scream was a special phenomenon. I would have welcomed a space Scream with open arms.

I mean it took Jason 10 mainstream films to get there. It coulda happened.
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Whereas Alien started in space, so the only way for the series to go was down.
Some interesting kind of meta-foreshadowing right there!

(It should not come as a surprise that I am not a fan of the most recent Alien movies...)
 
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
Kooky said:
Whereas Alien started in space, so the only way for the series to go was down.
Some interesting kind of meta-foreshadowing right there!

(It should not come as a surprise that I am not a fan of the most recent Alien movies...)
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It was going to in Alien 3!! It was supposed to go to Earth. So that would be a funny trope inversion!

I don’t care for anything after Alien 3, and Alien 3 is barely tolerated, maybe it’s the “what-if” scenario that would be a dvd extra on the real Alien 3.
 
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