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It's already been mentioned concerning Halloween 3, so I'll leave that one go. I actually liked 4 and 5 as a basic continuation of the themes from 1 and 2.... obsessive madman out to kill someone. They pretty much nailed it. For that particular series I think H20 dragged enough to bore me (and I am rather tolerant of sequels at this point.) Although Resurrection did a good job of making the entire thing interesting despite completely lacking Pleasance and the involvement of anybody related to Laurie Strode.
I would say that 28 weeks later pretty much swung away from 28 Days Later. Too much focus on the american soldiers trying to look cool in the beginning. The entire movie had a very different feel. It was much more about gore and bloodshed than the first one had been. I don't mind that, but it seemed to be lacking the underlying message about society that the first one carried with it. I feel it did a disservice to the original movie by removing that.
The third Phantasm...BAD. We watched it anyway because we wanted ot get the entire series under our belts, but we ended up giving it the MST3K treatment.
I'm loving this topic, btw. I can't really speak on the Nightmare on Elm street or Friday the 13th series as it's been a while since I've watched all of them. But Jason in outer space was freaking ridiculous. I'm sure that one jumped the shark sooner than that, it's just not coming to me off the top of my head at the moment.
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