[Franchise] Halloween vs. A Nightmare on Elm Street

Started by Charlie Work, Aug 6, 2015, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

Which series is better?

  1. Halloween

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  2. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1 vote(s)
    14.3%
  1. Charlie Work
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    I left Jason out because he doesn't have a watershed movie that compares to either of these respective franchises. While Halloween is the superior first movie in my opinion, having Freddy transform into a campy villain in the sequels was more fun than the convoluted mess that became of Halloween. Dream Warriors is a guilty pleasure of mine while also containing one of my favorite kills (the puppeteer).
     
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  2. Suburban Scum
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    As a whole it's hard since I know Halloween has some extremely bad films in the series. As far as NOES I've seen every film but can't remember much. Halloween is great because it's realistic can easily be something that happens which to me is more scary. NOES is more creative and brought something new to the table. Which the genre needs now instead of generic crappy jump scare ghost movies. But I gotta go with Halloween Michael is my favorite killer of all time fan girl over him so hard as a kid.
     
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  3. Juney Dark
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    The only Nightmare films I liked were the original and New Nightmare

    I liked Halloween, Halloween II, & Return of Michael Myers

    so 3-2 , Mike wins!
     
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  4. Big Dangerous
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    Halloween 7 days a week two times on Sunday
     
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  5. DetroitDGAF
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    Aug 7, 2015
    HALLOWEEN is the only option
     
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    halloweens lows are better than nightmares highs
     
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  7. boyz n the suburbs
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    The first three Halloweens s--- on a majority of the NOES series and also
     
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  8. Juney Dark
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    The Third one was horrible..lol didn't even have Michael in it, and strayed away from everything about the first two

    1, 2, 4, & Maybe 5 are great

    6, 7, 8, and Zombie's remakes were horrible
     
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    Zombie's first remake is underrated!

    Y'all kidding yourselves if you think Resurrection/Curse/Revenge are in any way better than NOES/Dream Warriors/New Nightmare.
     
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  10. NyKill
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    season of the witch was god awful, I prefer Jason any day.
     
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    I forgot to mention H20, I guess that's part seven right?.. I've lost count
     
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    Both originals are amazing but yeah not a surprise which I would pick. Halloween is my favourite.

    Nightmare 3 (with the return of Nancy) was pretty good, and New Nightmare as too. Rest is pretty bad and becomes worse after every movie until NN.

    Halloween 2 is good, H4 decent, same goes for H20. 5 and 6 are boring and Resurrection is an insult to the franchise. It's so bad lol.

    Remake I give the slight edge to Nightmare, altough I hated Freddy there (Robert Eglund >>>). The second halloween remake was horrible, the first below average imo.

    all things considered, I win

    Looking forward to the new remakes/sequels that are planned but I don't expect too much of them

    - Michael Myers
     
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    It's a great movie when you get over the fact that the previous two movies had Michael.
    I used to hate it until I gave it a chance.
     
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  15. Michael Myers
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    Carpenter initially wanted the franchise to be about Halloween, with every movie being a story involving Halloween night (like a different story everytime) I don't mind Halloween 3, it's decent imo, and pretty original. But the fans were pissed it wasn't about Michael so with part 4 they decided to bring him back.

    Imo 4 was good but I honestly expected 5 to be about Jamie being the killer -after the ending of 4-. But they just recycled the same stuff.. 6, with the curse was horrible. I liked the fact that he is a cold killer, and they kind of ruined that idea with the thorn storyline (part 5 a little, and 6). That's why they decided to ignore it when they made H20, even tho the first draft did include a scene from 4,5,6. But yeah after the decent H20 they f----- up everything with Ressurection so I ignore it.
     
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    I've always been curious to know how the series would've been like had they made each movie about something different.
     
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    both almost entirely garbage outside of the original films
     
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  18. Michael Myers
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    Yeah me too, the concept of it was a good idea imo but mostly because of the fans they decided not to do it. Wrond choice imo. They should have did 4,5,6 differently and made H20 just as a 'sequel'
     
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    Wouldn't call it great, but few movies capture the vibe of the holiday like Season of the Witch does. Would be rated much higher by horror fans if it didn't have the Halloween name attached to it.



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