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The greatest horror movies of the 80s and 90s that won a TV series

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Older horror fans who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s have no complaints about nostalgia. It turns out that some of the genre’s most iconic productions are reappearing left and right in new retreads for the current era. Well, in fact, no horror fan has anything to complain about, as more and more quality productions, whether on the small or the big screen, are making their debut en masse, bringing joys to the fans. fans. But when it comes to nostalgia, there are some well-known brands that certainly hold special value for those who have seen their emergence in the aforementioned decades.

The year 2021 has once again brought new franchises like Halloween, Candyman, Chucky, and I Know What You Did Last Summer to pop culture, to name a few. All that was missing was the appearance of two 80s horror titans: Freddy and Jason. While dear psychopaths don’t repeat their triumphant return to the entertainment world, we have a few worthy substitutes left. This article, however, is about those popular classic films that have been adapted onto small screens into TV series, whether current or old. As shows now have as much power, if not more than movie theaters, acting in their own TV show has become a good business for these icons. Check it out below and be sure to comment.

We start with the most recent series on the list. Horror fan favorite Killer Toy Chucky has moved from the big screen to the small screen and stars in his first TV show. Aired on the American channel SyFy, the series has been a great success with the public and has achieved a good audience – in Brazil it is part of the Disney Star + collection. Chucky has already aired five of its ten episodes from the first season, having debuted on October 19, just around Halloween time. The series was implied by the original creators and follows the timeline of the 1988 debut film, which has already produced seven films – the last two of which had already been released direct on video. Now with this TV show, Chucky is once again a hit among the youngsters. On the flip side, the 2019 remake was just as successful and follows a different timeline. And if you get a sequel, it can confuse things for the character.

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One of the biggest mistakes a production’s creators can make is tinkering with solidified material. It hardly ever works, most of the time it turns out to be a risk. Okay, daring can be good, but it takes some familiarity with what fans expect. Going completely against the element above (which has retained its original narrative line since 1988), the reinterpretation of the beloved ’90s film changed “everything and a little more” of what the fans knew and loved. None of the characters have been kept and the plot is now different, bringing only the dynamic “young people have a car accident, which ends up killing a person and now they have to hide the fact”. It’s fair to say that the 1997 film changed the narrative of its original material a lot as well, with Lois Duncan’s book turning him into a teen slasher, but let’s face it, how many people knew about the book before the film? The series premiered on Amazon on October 15 and reached its first final season this week on November 12.

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Ash vs. Evil Dead

Perhaps as messy as the Toy Killer / Chucky franchise, the horror film series Sam Raimi created about the demonic undead perhaps leaves many fans without understanding how its story works. It all started, of course, exactly forty years ago with the classic Evil Dead – The Devil’s Death, an amateur mezzo flick that Raimi made in good faith alongside his friends. Among them, Bruce Campbell, who would become one of Hollywood’s greatest buffoons, incredibly beloved by the public. Six years later, Raimi was finally able to pull the sequel A Hallucinating Night (1987) out of the role, and soon in that film he recreated part of the original and also continued the story in some sort of remake / reboot. /sequence. Then in 1992 would come Army of Darkness, which was more of a comedic adventure than a horror. The path followed by the Ash vs. Evil Dead, which starred Campbell reprising the role of the hero for the first time in over twenty years. In the meantime, we got a pretty rough remake of the original in 2013. The series premiered in 2015 and ran for 3 seasons of 10 episodes through 2018 – all of which are currently available on Netflix. The franchise will release another movie next year, titled Evil Dead Rise.

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Panic: the series

The fifth film in the Scream franchise, titled sans the timeline number, is slated for release in January 2022. Fans couldn’t be more frantic as Scream has become such a hugely influential film and its sequels have helped shape what we have of. Teen horror today, that is to say with a lot of references and a shy humor. But you have to remember that this fifth film will be the first to not have the involvement of the creator of it all, director Wes Craven, who died in 2015. Craven directed the four previous films in the franchise. And his last contact with the Panic brand would not be in the cinema, but on TV. It turns out that even in 2015, the first season of the Scream series aired, which brought the concept of movie theaters to small screens, backed by MTV Films. The series had nothing to do with the movies, and even the killer didn’t wear the same costume as Ghostface. In common only the psychological torture that the maniac likes to do with his victims and the structure of the “thriller”, in which one of the characters turns out to be the murderer. The series ran for 3 seasons until 2019, with the latest revamping the entire cast, villain uniform, and lasting just 6 episodes.

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Arguably, the cult vampire road movie A Drink in Hell was the film that helped advance the career of star George Clonney in the cinema. We could also, behind this, the collaboration of two real heavyweights of the industry, the screenwriter Quentin Tarantino and the director Robert Rodriguez. The success was great and the feature film would have two sequels, not in films, but launched directly into the video market, capitalizing on the brand. A year before the start of the Panico series, in 2014, Um Drink no Inferno debuted its first season as a television series. Aired on Robert Rodriguez’s television network, the El Rey channel, the program was active for three seasons, from 2014 to 2016, and has them all in the Netflix collection, as the platform has exclusive exposure of the series. in Brazil. Produced by Rodriguez, the series is a sort of remake of the original film, retracing the trajectory of criminal brothers Seth and Richie Gecko, now played by DJ Cotrona and Zane Holtz. Several characters from the original also return recast along with other actors.

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Freddy’s nightmares

Recently here at CinePOP, I did an article entirely dedicated to this production from the 80s. As mentioned at the beginning of the text, the maniac of the dream (or the nightmare) Freddy Krueger is one of the most famous monsters of the seventh art. , having started his career with A Nightmare Hour, of the same Wes Craven, in 1984. Played by Robert Englund in all the films of the franchise (except for the remake of 2010), the psychopath with the sharp nails had already starred in four films when he jumped from the big screen to the small screen. The proposal was to capitalize as much as possible on the burnt figure, which greatly appealed to children and young people. All types of products licensed with your face went on sale, so it was only natural that there was a TV show as well. Englund also reprizes the character on small screens, and the format here was that of an anthology, with Freddy introducing the episodes, each consisting of a separate supernatural horror story, and ultimately appearing as the antagonist in some of the chapters. Even Brad Pitt appeared in one of them early in his career. The series debuted in 1988 and lasted for two seasons until 1990.

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And if Freddy had a series of his own in the 1980s, the other great monster of the time wouldn’t let go. Jason Voorhees, even without saying a word, also had his own show. Or almost. Unlike Freddy’s Nightmares, the Friday the 13th franchise won a series that must have left many fans watching the ships – I certainly speak from experience. No less Friday the 13th: The Series won the infamous Loja do Terror title in Brazil. What if you ask what a store would have to do with the maniac who wears a hockey mask to hide his handsome features? Well the answer is nothing. The idea of ​​the producers here was to only use the title to mark the minds of the audience. And no Jason.

Just as John Carpenter had planned the Halloween franchise in the movies after the second film, and even Friday the 13th on the big screen came to think of it, on the small screen the franchise has become an anthology, with each episode telling a story about it. ‘different horror. . Well, the truth is, Shop of Horror was more of a predecessor to The X-Files, with two recurring protagonists facing a threat each week. Nominated for two Emmy Awards, the story of the series was about the owner of an antique store, who makes a deal with the devil and turns every object into cursed. Years later, the place is inherited by the niece of guy Micki (Louise Robey) and his cousin Ryan (John D. LeMay – who would later have the opportunity to face Jason in person, playing another character, in Jason Goes to Hell, 1993). The couple must retrieve the cursed items to prevent the blood from spilling from those who bought them.

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