Franchise Battle: Halloween vs. Friday the 13th vs. Nightmare on Elm Street

[TLH]

Okay, so, we all know that the three most storied, popular, and extensive slasher franchises are Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Which franchise is in your opinion the best and why?

You can probably guess what I pick. I'll post later on why.

 

[The Joker]

The Halloween franchise for me. I find Michael Myers more scary than Freddy or Jason. Plus the Halloween franchise had the talents of Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Danielle Harris. Plus the Halloween score is awesomeness. I have little love for the Rob Zombie ones. Especially the second one.

The Friday the 13th franchise is my second favourite. I think parts 1-4, and the remake were terrific. I never cared for zombie Jason in parts 6-9.

Nightmare on Elm Street has three decent entries, the first three movies. After that, Freddy just became a comical character, and completely lost his edge. I'm hoping Hayley makes Freddy scary again in the remake. It's looking promising in the trailer.

 

[CFE]

"Halloween" hands down...the other two wouldn't even exist without its success.

 

[Soapy]

If we're talking franchises then screw all three of 'em. All of them have too many piss poor entries for me to consider any of them good. However, I feel that the first Friday the 13th is pretty good. The first Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare are both awesome. And you just can't beat the original Halloween. So I guess my list would be...

Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th

 

[Venom75]

Krueger rules all. The Nightmare series(and Freddy himself)are far more original,complex and entertaining.

 

[Nightmare]

I gotta say Freddy. Though after the original they fell off hard in quality. The halloween movies are a close 2nd imo. The Original is an all time classic and probably the best horror movie ever.

 

[Thundarr]

I voted for John Carpenter's Halloween. The original kicks ass, as does the extended cut. The first sequel is about as good as a sequel can get. H20 I give an A for effort, but a D in execution. The rest of the franchise just goes from bad to worse.

In second place is Friday The 13th. The first two rocked hard. Numbers 3, 4 & 5 get an A for effort, but only a D for execution. The rest of the series with Zombie Jason just suck.

In last place is Nightmare. Freddy rocked in the first two movies, then he just became a big joke after that with all the lame one liners.

The remakes of Friday the 13th and Halloween can make like Jason and Go To Hell. As for the remake of nightmare, I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen it, but I'm not holding out any hope.

 

[The Dark Defender]

"Halloween" hands down...the other two wouldn't even exist without its success.

F13 maybe, ANOES would anyway...and F13 borrowed no more from Halloween than it did from TCM or Black Christmas.

ANOES is the best of the three, F13 is a better overall series than Halloween though, even if no one installment compares to the original H.

 

[bullets]

I'd have to say I enjoy Nightmare on Elm St more than all of them . These weren't exactly great films but Freddy was always entertaining.

 

[StylishHokie21]

A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Halloween franchise, IMO. I've always loved them all, but Michael just seems to be the best, if you ask me. Freddy and Jason are gods, and they are my second favorite slashers, and come in at a VERRRY clsoe second, but Michael is the father and will remain the best.

 

[san15]

Why isn’t the Saw Franchise on the list. Whether or not you’re a fan of the series you can’t deny the fact that Jigsaw has become a horror icon. The Saw films helped give birth to the so called “torture porn” sub genre. As a result, it has enjoyed a huge amount of success not seen since Micheal, Jason, or Freddy during the eighties.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Halloween
i loved the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and H20, the first remake was good, the H2 remake sucked,
Then nightmare on Elm Street
Last, Friday the 13th, i never could get into those movies, although i haven't checked out the remake,

 

[CelticPredator]

There is only 2 decent Halloween movies. Halloween, and Halloween 3. (blow me). Friday has 1-4, and 6.

Nightmare has 3 good ones.


I pick Alien.

 

[Nightmare]

Halloween 3 is awesome

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Agreed! I'm proud to say I own it. It's just a great horror film all around.

 

[Rishi]

Scream

 

[The Shape]

 

[bullets]

Why isn’t the Saw Franchise on the list. Whether or not you’re a fan of the series you can’t deny the fact that Jigsaw has become a horror icon. The Saw films helped give birth to the so called “torture porn” sub genre. As a result, it has enjoyed a huge amount of success not seen since Micheal, Jason, or Freddy during the eighties.

Yes Jigsaw is a modern day horror icon . I also think Saw's sequels are better in quality than Jason goes to manhattan and such.

However this is a three way battle and that's why jigsaw isn't on the list .

 

[TLH]

Why isn’t the Saw Franchise on the list. Whether or not you’re a fan of the series you can’t deny the fact that Jigsaw has become a horror icon. The Saw films helped give birth to the so called “torture porn” sub genre. As a result, it has enjoyed a huge amount of success not seen since Micheal, Jason, or Freddy during the eighties.

Well, er...this poll is really aimed at comparing the most nostalgic and storied slasher franchises.

 

[daywalker2007]

the Saw franchise is garbage.
end of story.

the best is Nightmare on Elm Street.

 

[marvelman2006]

Halloween wins this by a walk off. freddy and jason were parodies of the genre. michael was scary becuase he just sat there in the shadows and was grounded in reality by his very possible killer habits. Halloween was more believable then the other two and michael always escaped and never died, jason and freddy died every movie so it saturated any hopes of them being scary and a imposing threat.

 

[marvelman2006]

Why isn’t the Saw Franchise on the list. Whether or not you’re a fan of the series you can’t deny the fact that Jigsaw has become a horror icon. The Saw films helped give birth to the so called “torture porn” sub genre. As a result, it has enjoyed a huge amount of success not seen since Micheal, Jason, or Freddy during the eighties.

saw isnt a "horror movie". granted saw has achieved cult status for our time but it is not in the same league as scary as the other 3 franchises are. none of the saw movies have any shred of make you jump moments.

 

[Halloween]

 

[CelticPredator]

Saw franchise can go **** it's self. Worst series of all time. Hands ****ing down.

I'd rather watch those cruddy Puppet Master flicks then another Saw movie.