My newest article at Flashbak remembers the 1990s, and the craptacular (often DTV or Direct-to-TV) horror movie franchises that thrived during that time period.
Here's a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/in-the-hood-and-in-space-the-five-lamest-horror-movie-franchises-of-the-1990s-30606/ ):
"The
1960s gave the world the remarkable beginning chapter of a great horror
franchise, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
(1968).
A
decade later, the seventies started off the runs of Jaws (1975), Halloween
(1978), Alien (1979) and Phantasm (1979).
And
the eighties initiated Friday the 13th (1980), A
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Hellraiser (1987) to name
just three beloved franchises.
Alas,
the 1990s didn’t succeed nearly as well in terms of crafting horror series that
could go the distance.
Although
Wes Craven’s Scream (1996) initiated a respectable series, other franchises
of the era were, generally…pretty lame. Some started strong (like Candyman
[1992]) started strong and ended in disgrace. Some never achieved escape velocity.
With
that thought in mind, here are the five lamest horror movie franchises of the
1990s..."
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