The Final Destination
The Final Franchise kicked off back in 2000, yes it really has been nine years, and followed a group of teenagers who begin dying in horrible ways after avoiding a plane crash.
Somehow however this franchise has managed to spawn three sequels, the fourth movie making it into cinemas this week.
With the third movie only taking $113 million at the box office, the other two movies doing even worse, it's hard to see why yet another movie got the go ahead.
But that seems to be the case with the big screen at the moment with franchises that should have ended long ago being stretched out further than they ever should have gone.
And it's the Saw franchise that is an excellent example of this, it's the sixth movie due out later this year.
It all started back in 2004 with two kidnapped men who have been locked in an industrial bathroom with a dead body with instruction on how to escape.
The movie pushed horror to limits that we hadn't seen before giving birth to the genre of movie nicknamed torture porn.
The first three movie were very successful at the box office, despite just being films about groups of people being killed in horrific ways by the one screw loose Jigsaw.
But movie four brought about the demise of Jigsaw so you now have to question why the franchise feels the need to continue. But continue it does as Saw VI hit screens in a few weeks, despite the main character still being dead.
The success of Saw brought horror movie fans the equally gross and pointless Hostel, where there are more nice people dying in over the top and outrageous ways.
But the torture porn craze that seemed to have swept through cinemas saw Hostel gross over just over $80 million at the box office, and this was deemed good enough to produce a sequel.
So 2007 brought Hostel II, which was just Hostel with girls being tortured to death instead of guys, very original.
But with a $35 million gross you would think that this franchise would just go away... but no as a third movie was in the pipeline. However, there appears to be a god, it's going straight to DVD.
Please enough is enough of torture porn it's really time to both these film franchises to bed.
But it seems to be the horror movies that drag all these films out with Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre being remade and sequeled to death, and lets face it they will never better the originals.
Scream is another where enough really needs to be enough, despite the fact that a four movie will be released next year.
The film series kicked off back in 1996 and was directed by Wes Craven. Despite being naff, in my humble opinion, the film grossed over $173 million at the box office, easily making back it's $14 million budget, and revitalised the slasher film genre.
The film spawned two more movies, providing regular movie work for Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette and Neve Campbell and little more.
However a fourth movie was announced in July 2008 with the Arquettes, and possibly Neve Campbell, returning.
Silence of the Lambs is widely regarded as one of the best horror movies of all time and Hannibal Lector one of cinema's greatest characters.
But the Lector movies that have followed have been totally unnecessary, low quality and nothing but a money making machine.
There have been no fewer than four further Lector movies: Manhunter, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising and Red Dragon none of which have ever matched the original, despite Anthony Hopkins reprising the lead role on two occasions.
So The Final Destination joins a group of franchises that have all been done to death and while it will probably enjoy some box office success it really is time to call it a day.
The Final Destination is released 28th August.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw