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The sad thing is that people kind of attempted it with movies like the Scream Trilogy, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, etc. However, these new age "slasher" films are no good in comparison to the slashers of the 80's because they barely have identities. Scream used a different killer in every movie for christ's sake. A true horror fan loves seeing Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger come back from the dead to torture and destroy because we have developed a kind of morbid attachment to these characters and, in some cases, almost feel sorry for them. Was Jason really evil? I mean, guys, they let him drown and then they killed his mom, the only person he had in the world! Because we are made to hate the new age slashers, we don't care if they die or never come back, which I feel is a large reason why these series of films never go past like three. And so, if anybody out there is going to think about starting up a new super slasher film series, they should analyze the psychological attachment of the audience when developing the character.
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