Michael Myers has been stalking Haddonfield since 1978, Freddy Krueger has died and come back more times than most actors get sequels, and Pennywise still crawls out of a Derry storm drain every 27 years. This hub covers the long-running horror series that built those icons, from Halloween and Scream to Saw, The Conjuring, Alien and It. It is for anyone trying to work out where to start, what to skip, and why these characters refuse to stay dead.
Release order versus chronological order for each series, with clear guidance on which reboots, remakes and requels actually count.
Breakdowns of the tangled canon, including the multiple Halloween timelines, the Conjuring universe spin-offs and where Prometheus and Covenant sit against the original Alien films.
Profiles of Michael, Jason, Freddy, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Xenomorph and Pennywise, plus the directors, writers, performers and effects artists who shaped them.
Honest assessments of every entry, from the undisputed classics to the sequels most fans pretend never happened.
There are 10 Saw movies, running from James Wan’s Saw (2004) to Kevin Greutert’s Saw X (2023). Add the 2003 short film that sold the idea, and the count of officially released Saw films reaches 11. Below you get release…
There are eight official Leprechaun movies, released between 1993 and 2018, and Warwick Davis plays the gold-obsessed killer in the first six. This guide covers every Leprechaun movie in release order, who is in each one, how scary each actually…
There are four Jeepers Creepers films: the 2001 original, Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017) and the soft reboot Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022). Release order and story order are not the same, because the third film slots in…
The Ghostbusters franchise covers five live-action films, from Ivan Reitman’s 1984 original to Gil Kenan’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). It also includes three animated series and four decades of video games, running from David Crane’s 1984 computer game to Ghostbusters:…
Michael Myers (often searched as “Michael Meyers”) is the silent, masked killer at the centre of the Halloween franchise, created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill for the 1978 film. He has appeared in 12 of the 13 Halloween movies…
Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the face of Stephen King’s It, but the clown is a costume worn by something far older than Derry, Maine. This profile walks you through what It actually is, why it picks a clown, every…
John Carpenter’s Halloween cost around $300,000, shot on a four-week schedule, and went on to earn roughly $47 million at the US box office, which made it one of the most profitable independent films ever released. Everything that followed, from…
