Occasionally, all that talent and hard work connect with an audience excited to revisit the characters.
Every movie is a marvel, but every sequel is a miracle.
A story rarely stays with an audience, and viewers are excited to revisit the characters.
It’s even rarer that viewers return to that same world sixtimes.
It’s no surprise that this happens most frequently in horror.
Every series, every killer has its own set of rules to be escalated and subverted.
Image via Universal Studios Home Entertainment
TheScreamfranchise has established itself as the horror series with the most consistent sequels.
It’s tough to stay great for one movie’s runtime, let alone six.
But,Screamisn’t alone in being worth your time as the series gets longer.
Image via Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Characters break the fourth wall and address the audience directly.
This is themost explicitly fun movie in the series.
Part VIcontinues the story of Tommy Jarvis, here accidentally reviving the franchise villain Jason Voorhees.
Image via Voltage Pictures
Chaos ensues in one of the best entries of this 12-movie franchise.
2’Curse of Chucky' (2013)
Curse of Chuckymade the famous killer doll scary again.
However, both of those movies sacrificed some scares as Chucky became a bona fide pop culture superstar.
Image via Paramount Pictures
He is the father of the genre, creating masterpieces likeNight of the Living DeadandDawn of the Dead.
Romero masterfully paired gory special effects makeup with powerful societal allegory.
There were plenty of gross-out kills, but these were movies with something to say.
Image via 20th Century Studios
In George Romero’s final movie, man is the real monster.
The Ghost Dimensionadds 3D to the found footage formula.
As was the case in the 1979 original, the characters inAlien: Covenantare undone by greedy corporate overlords.
Covenantis a prequel set before the events involving Ripley (Sigourney Weaver).
The film underwhelmed at the box office, grossing less than its predecessorPrometheus.
However, the story is rewarding as a standalone sci-fi movie and a continuation of the beloved space saga.
Image via Sony Pictures Releasing
This sixth installment, however, continues the story directly from the two that precede it.
That means Jamie is back, this time played byJ.C.
It may not make total sense, but the director’s cut is at least a bit more easily-followed.
Image via Warner Bros.
What is final, though (thus far, anyway), isMilla Jovovich’s performance as Alice.
Time will tell whether Jovovich will return for a seventh movie.
The connective thread was tenuous: only Father Perez from 2014’sAnnabelleappeared again inLa Llorona.
Series protagonists Ed and Loraine Warren didn’t even show up for a cameo.
There’s no mention of any events inThe Nun.
However,The Curse of La Lloronareveals itself to be aConjuringmovie in spirit, if not directly.
Image via Lionsgate
TheTexas Chainsawtimeline is confounding, but don’t let that keep you from enjoying the series' sixth entry.
This is the Leatherface origin story you never knew you needed.
The film opens with a woman dying prematurely, giving birth in a slaughterhouse.
The baby is disposed of in a dumpster, and the movie only gets more gruesome from there.
That same baby grew up with a taste for chainsaw carnage, later committing the titular massacres.
Each challenge is a puzzle for the victims to solve if they want to escape with their life.
Some fans return to James Wan’s long-runningSawfranchise for the story.
Some fans return for the inventive traps.
Both groups of viewers had lots to celebrate withSaw VI.
Even from beyond the grave, Jigsaw continued supplying some terrifying and compelling twists and turns.
KEEP READING:New ‘Scream VI’ Image Invites You to “Guess Who” the Killer Is
