7 the longest horror kinofranshiz

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Number of films: 8.

• USA 1974.
• Duration: 83 min.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Sally girl with her disabled brother and friends sent to visit the grave of his grandfather. On the trouble they pick up on the road a strange man who invites them to dinner at the house of his family. However, this is a family of the terrible maniac, known as Leatherface.

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The oldest franchise in this list, but it continued out to this day. Plots most series of films like: a group of young people opposed to the maniac nicknamed Leatherface.

The prototype of the main villain became really existed maniac Ed Gin. In the movies, he wears a mask made of leather and is a member of a family of cannibals.

During the years of existence of the franchise came four sequels, a remake and a prequel with another movie that continues the first part.

This year came the next part of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface", which was a prequel to the 1974 film. It tells about the establishment of the antagonist.

Halloween

Number of films: 10.

• USA 1978.
• Duration: 91 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Even as a child Mike Myers murdered his sister on Halloween. 15 years later, he escapes from the asylum for madmen and again takes up arms to arrange the massacre on the same day.

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One of the most lucrative in the history of independent films, which became a real breakthrough for director John Carpenter, once spawned a new genre - slashers. Now they call all the paintings in which the villain one after the other killing heroes.

Story psycho Mike Myers began in 1978 and continues to this day: part of the planned release of a new in 2018.

After the release of eight films released remake. Directed by Rob Zombie told the story by focusing not on the goodies, and the personality of Mike Myers. Later came the sequel, which was very low by critics.

Friday, 13th

Number of films: 12.

• USA, 1980.
• Duration: 95 min.
• IMDb: 6,5.

The summer camp "Crystal Lake" once drowned boy. A year later, there was a bloody murder, the camp was closed. Many years later, the new owner decides to resume work, and a group of leaders sent to the lake for training. But ancient curse again makes itself felt.

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Franchise from this collection, has the largest number of films. Issued for 12 paintings, one of which - a crossover with "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The image of the famous serial killer in hockey mask Jason Voorhees familiar to almost every fan horror. It is curious that in the first film, he hardly appears and becomes the main antagonist only in the second part.

Later Jason is simply killer and revived a dead man, and even be in space. One thing remains unchanged - a hockey mask and a brutal murder in every part.

In 2009, the franchise was restarted, the history of Jason's changed a bit. However, he remained a maniac, killing all those caught in its path.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Number of films: 9.

• USA 1984.
• Duration: 92 min.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Students from a small town starts to dream about the same nightmare of mutilated man in a hat with metal claws on the hand. Those who had been killed in his sleep, and die in reality. Executed once residents of Freddy Krueger returns in dreams, to take revenge.

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Freddy Krueger can be called one of the most recognizable villains of horror films. Burnt face, a hat, a striped sweater and glove with iron claws - For the first time incarnated by Robert Englund in 1984, frightening a generation of viewers.

After the success of the first film was released five sequels, the part where all the previous scenes announced film scripts, and crossover, in which Freddy Krueger came into confrontation with Jason Voorhees.

In 2010 he published a new picture, restart the story of Freddie. The plans of the studio was to remove some parts, but the film's failure at the box froze all projects for an indefinite period.

Hellraiser

Number of films: 10.

• United Kingdom 1987.
• Duration: 94 min.
• IMDb: 7,0.

In search of unearthly pleasures Frank opens a mysterious box, but instead of the promised delights receives endless pain. After a while, Frank manages to escape from the hell. He kills people, to restore the body. Julia helps him - his brother's wife, secretly in love with him. But for Frank chase ominous messengers of hell - Cenobite.

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Film series, which originated from the small pieces of the writer Clive Barker Hellbound Heart. A year after the release of the book itself Barker created an adaptation that gave rise to a multi-year franchise.

Cenobite headed Pinhedom, whose head was covered with pins, in the first film appeared quite a while, but they began to link all the parts. For 30 years, it came out of nine films shown and the background of most of the characters, and scripts that to come up with the martyrs in hell, and even the appearance of Cenobite in a spaceship in the distant future.

Removed and the tenth part of the "Hellraiser: The sentence" but it is not known when it will be released. Also Clive Barker himself, who produced the first four films, says of a possible restart of the series under his supervision for ten years.

Kids games

Number of films: 7.

• USA 1988.
• Duration: 87 min.
• IMDb: 6,5.

The soul of a maniac is infused into a doll belonging to the boy Andy. Nobody believes a child, when he says that the nurse had killed a child's toy. But one murder is not limited to - Chucky begins to terrorize the city.

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Maybe someone and not immediately remember the name of the movie, but creepy doll, Which was possessed by the spirit of a maniac killer, learn a lot. The gloomy atmosphere of the first scene in the Proceedings was replaced by a black humor. Yet the fear of a doll with a knife in the hands of lives in the hearts of many fans.

Over time obzavolsya Chucky doll bride, I was able to return to the human body, but abandoned it. It completely destroyed several times, but he always came back. And once Chucky has become a character of the film, to break into the real world.

In August this year in the world rolling out the seventh part of the franchise called "The Cult of Chucky."

Saw

Number of films: 8.

• USA, 2004.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Two strangers do not remember how ended up in the room where the middle lies a corpse with a gun in his hand. They soon learn that in order to survive itself, it is necessary to kill the second. Here are just a reach weapons can only be sawed off his leg.

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The youngest franchise in this collection, but has already received international recognition and many sequels.

The first film "Saw: The game of survival," appeared in 2004 from a script two Australian students. Low-budget picture is not even planned to show in cinemas, but the first run caused the audience a real delight.

Record charges of the film launched a long franchise dedicated to John Kramer aka designer and his followers. they put a trap by each participant in the situation in which he must prove his desire to live and the right to either give up and die.

October 26 comes out of the eighth, where the next successor continues the work of legendary designer.