The Monster's Den: Ranking the First Films of 6 Iconic Horror Franchises
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2022
- Join Pete Pardo, Chris Alo, Rich Catino, Jamie Laszlo, and Craig Kaminski as they rank the first films of iconic franchises Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, A Nightmare on Elm St., and Child's Play.
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Always thought leather face was doing a type of ballet dance because he thinks the sound of the chainsaw was like a beautiful song.. great episode guys
Here in the UK in the early to mid eighties we had a someone called Mary Whitehouse who campaigned against the release of the so called video nasties, which meant that we couldn't rent a lot of the films that you guy's in the US could and it seems quite bizarre to me that you could watch them in such a short time on cable after their theatrical release, but of course this made it all the more special when one of the friends in your circle would manage to find a pirate copy , no matter how poor the quality of the tape, to this day it always brings back special memories for me.
Amazing to see a full house today. Like everyone within the community, I thoroughly enjoy simply being amongst your company. Thank you.
6. Child's Play. 5. Friday the 13th. 4. Hellraiser. 3. A Nightmare on Elm street. 2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 1. Helloween.
The only controversy here is whether TCM or Halloween is #1. Both iconic classics of the genre. Nightmare at #3 for sure. The rest are interchangeable.
A bit late to the show but definitely worth the wait and having all five appear added a lot to those of us who have watched all these guys In The Monster's Den to see who would pick what movie in what slot. Add the countdown confusion laughs [thanks, Rich] ,Jamie's excellent entrance and Chris going off the rails a bit about the youth of today and you have a show for the record books. Thanks for sharing your time and making me laugh again at a horror show.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is by far my favorite here. It takes a lot for a horror movie to unsettle me and like you guys said, even though there is little to no gore in it, it still managed to make me feel completely disturbed by the ending.
When I was young, the local theater was showing HALLOWEEN, (first run) I was 10, we were driving by the theater and there was an ambulance outside. Someone had a heart attack while watching it!!! Thats scary!
1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre-saw it at the drive two years after it came out as a 13 year old
2. Halloween - vhs viewing
3. Nightmare-watched in the theater
4. Friday 13th- working in a movie theater, saw it at least 50 times
5. Hellraiser- vhs viewing
6. Childs Play- vhs viewing
Great episode guys, loved the Generation X vs Millennials moment, laughed my ass off ! A truly great Chris Alo/Jamie Laszlo moment !
Another great show guys! 👹
#1 Halloween
#2 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
#3 A Nightmare On Elm Street
#4 Friday The 13th
#5 Hellraiser
#6 Child's Play
Texas Chainsaw 2 is so cool . Nobody ever talks about it . Great story line with Hopper .
Chop Top was a helluva character!
Halloween 1-3 are classics 🔥🔥 I saw Halloween 3 in the theatre when I was like 8. It scared the shit outta me. To this day it’s one of my main influences. The reason I fell in love with horror is Kolchak the night stalker, The Exorcist, The Howling & Halloween 3 🔥🔥🔥🔥
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Friday the 13th
3. Halloween
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Child's Play
6. Hellraiser
Agree about Clive Barker: he's a horror visionary. Books of Blood Volumes 1 & 2 are classic horror books, collections of short stories, written with true imagination. In Hellraiser and Candyman, he's introduced some new elements to the horror firmament.
I always wonder,why all horror lovers reject the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2005 remake version? It is very well shot,well-paced,shocking,brutal,You Know Who plays the sheriff and in many ways this film is much better than the original.
2003
It's a classic, just because of Jessica Biel wearing jeans.
I’ve always liked the 2003 remake with Jessica Biel. The original has always been the best in my opinion but I’d probably rank the 2003 remake at #2
Jamie never disappoints!! :D
They're showing Halloween this Summer on the big screen in Columbus in the historic Ohio Theater. Can't wait!
6.) Child's Play (I think its a lot of fun. Competent filmmaking elevated what could have been a total joke)
5.) Friday The 13th (I love the ending. I find it drags a little bit. Prefer parts 2,3, and 4)
4.) Hellraiser (Very imaginative and creepy. I agree with Chris it takes a while to get going.)
*To me this is the line separating the good and great movies.
3.) Halloween
2.) Nightmare on Elm Street
1.) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (A brutal masterpiece)
That was fun! Thanks guys
Hellraiser is a Masterpiece!
i miss renting VHS innocent fun times
Badass entrance, yeah! 😆🍺
The only one I didn't see in the theater upon it's release was Texas Chainsaw. My list: 1 Halloween, 2 Friday the 13th, 3 Nightmare on Elm, 4 Texas Chainsaw, 5 Childs Play , 6 Hellraiser
….and I just heard the news at the end. Next week, Bava! My favorite horror director, you’ve made my week. Looking forward to it, I will be thinking of a top five to post, which is nearly impossible.
6. Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Friday the 13th
4. Halloween
3. Texas Chainsaw Masacre
2. Child's Play
1. Hellraiser
43:46 I feel the opposite bro. To me what makes the original FT13 so scary and the best, especially the first time is the fact that you do not see the killer, you get the pov of the killer stalking the victims a bit but you really don't know where they are.. You don't know who it is. They almost make you think Steve Christy might be the one until his demise because he drives a jeep like Mrs Voorhees.. I love that about original Friday how Mrs Voorhees reveals herself and goes into the the bit about her son Jason, that he drowned etc. " Look what you did to him!"Great line! It comes out of nowhere. She's scary as fuck. I mean she took out the crew very efficiently and brutally! FT13 1980 is the one that started it all. My fave easily even tho I love 2, 3 and 4 as well. Final Chapter is badass
Jamie looks like Walter White dressing up as Freddie Krueger! Too funny!
6. Hellraiser
5. Child's Play
4. A Nightmare on Elmstreet
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Halloween
1. Friday the 13th
No love for Phantasm?
@@exhaustguy one of my favorite movies. Not just in the horror genre.
@@exhaustguy Phantasm isn't on the list of 6 they're ranking.
Jamie, you're a legend. That intro was awesome!
It was so funny 🤣 the other guys were so deadpan
I suppose the American equivalent to Mary Whitehouse was Tipper Gore with her explicit lyrics stickers campaign against the devils music.
1. Halloween
2. Hellraiser
3. A nightmare on Elm Street
4. Friday the 13th
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Childs Play
6. Friday The 13th
5. Hellraiser
4. Childs Play
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1. Halloween
#6 Halloween - sorry!
#5 Friday The 13th - great twist
#4 Child's Play - for Brad Dourif alone
#3 Texas Chainsaw Massacre - too much Franklin
#2 A Nightmare On Elm Street - Perfect film until that ending shot lol
#1 Hellraiser - always loved the concept, plus Frank's Resurrection scene might be the coolest thing ever?
Rich Catino is my homeboy! He cracks me up every time.
ok, the ultimate I Need a Shower Movie, and I mean the ULTIMATE..is Last House on Dead End Street , from 1971.
1. Halloween
2. Chainsaw
3. Elm Street
4. Friday
5. Childs Play
6. Hellraiser
I think the Halloween 4k has a reversible sleeve with the original artwork on the other side
Excellent! I have the Halloween theme as my ring tune, so classic is it.
Phantasm explores nightmare horror and it was before Nightmare on Elm Street
I remember the thrash band Anthrax being really into the first Freddy film, raving about it when it came out and posing with Englund as Freddy I think or wearing the glove or something so they were almost doing promotion for it in a sense.
I know I'm chilling with cool people, when I see a Mr. Yuck shirt.
Thank you ! 😀
1. Halloween (Absolute masterpiece...And that wasn't me driving the station wagon)
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( Total work of art...I love to rent a cabin behind The Gas Station here in Texas (The actual film location is a bad ass BBQ joint with cabin rentals)and watch it with the wife. Fun and creepy way to view the film.
3. Friday The 13th (The best post Halloween slasher)
4. Hellraiser
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street
6. Childs Play
It took me four days to get to this show and it's one of the most entertaining Monster's Den shows I've seen so far:
1. Watching all of you trying to count during the countdown was some of the funniest, unscripted (you fill in the blank) I've seen on this show, period! You guys had me in tears. I'm glad you all finally got on the same page because that bit could've gone on all night.
2. Jamie, the Freddy Krueger entrance, classic!
3. I love the stroll down 80s memory lane. I saw a lot of this horror films on cable as well. My parents wouldn't pay admission for a horror film. I also remember the repetition of the blockbuster films HBO, Showtime and Cinemax would show. Unless you liked that film, it was going to be a long month. Oh, I also remember watching the R-rated movies on Showtime and Cinemax After Dark. My parents would always be asleep. And it was one of those naughty things my friends and I did as kids. Oh, during one of my high school English classes, we had to choose a classic novel to read and write a report on a classic novel that was on her list. One of the books was Lady Chatterley's Lover. One of my classmates asked if he could write a report on the sequel Young Lady Chatterley. It went over her head but most of us busted out laughing.
4. I remember the days of VCRs and renting movies at the grocery store, Blockbuster and independent video chains. VCRs were around $500 and the VHS tapes were $80. My parents also had one of those rewind machines so they could rewind the tapes w/out wearing out the VCR. They were like around $20 I think? Nobody wanted to pay that stupid fine for not rewinding. And an independent video chain, where I grew-up, would sell cables you could hookup to two VCRs and duplicate the movies because they were so expensive. You could also rent VCRs too. Ah, the memories😁
As far as the franchises are concerned, I was never into Hellraiser (too weird), Child's Play (too lame) or Texas Chainsaw Massacre (too redneck for my taste). I liked the first three Nightmare On Elm Streets but it did get a little silly after awhile so, I stopped watching. Halloween was eerie but I never really scared me to the point of thrilling me. I've always loved Friday the 13th movies 1-8. There's nothing like a man wearing coveralls, wearing a hockey mask, carrying a machete while listening to that eerie-ass music as he hacked teenagers to death at night in the woods. It scares the shit out of me every time I watch it. Most of these horror films are low-budget and cheesy but at least they were interesting. They sure don't make them like they used to.
Another fantastic episode, guys. Believe it or not, I haven’t seen any of the Child’s Play movies and need to. I think I was traumatized by watching Rick Steiner argue with Chucky in a wrestling angle. I need to catch up on that series, better late than never. However, for the others.
5. Nightmare On Elm Street
4. Hellraiser
3. Friday the 13th
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1. Halloween
1 and 2 can go either way but I gave the edge to HAlLOWEEN only because I have a longer history with it. The top two are phenomenal.
How I’d rank them, from favorite to least favorite:
1) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2) Hellraiser
3) Nightmare on Elm Street
4) Friday the 13th
5) Halloween
6) Child’s Play.
One of the great screen Psychopaths, Dirty Harry's Scorpio was played by Andrew Robinson who would go on to appear in Hellraiser and Childs Play 3.
i remember when we got our first vcr & seeing The Untouchables
it was so sad to me about 2005 when the mom & pop video store downtown closed
i remember having cable fairly early (especially for the panhandle of Texas) in like 1985
FUN FACT-Pamela Voorhees can be seen for a second...looking out of the Chippewa cabin.There a screen shot somewhere online.
I too remember those things called 📚 books too Pete!! We’re in a different culture now with technology and all my friend. Sincerely yours, DJP Boston Massachusetts USA Amerikkka 🇨🇳🏳️
Per your rankings, the official M Den average rankings (going from 6 to 1) are:
6. Child's Play: 4.67
5. Hellraiser: 4.4
4. Friday the 13th: 4.2
3. Nightmare on Elm Street: 3.0
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 2.4
1. Halloween: 1.4
Good MD episode, would add the Omen franchise too and Phantasm.
I would put Phantasm at Number 2, if it were a choice, here.
just got done wacthing midsommor again and as I said first time I wacthed at end dam you Pete pardo lol prob gonna wacth the wicker man now a great pic of yours from some MD show
The rants were epic here!
For me, I would go
6. Child’s Play
5. Halloween
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Friday the 13th
2. Hellraiser
1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
I remember seeing Hellraiser and Child’s Play in the theater. The first Friday movie I saw in the theater was part 5. Part 3 of Nightmare and I honestly don’t remember for Halloween.
I read some Clive Barker back in the day and whew.
Halloween at 5??? No.
@@rightchordleadership well I have spent considerably more time with the other movies. Halloween is a classic, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t have the history with it.
Some dialogue of hellraiser 2 is used in "silent lucidity".
Scream Factory is releasing Child's Play 1,2 and 3 in 4k in August
I absolutely love Friday the 13th. In my top 3 with Pt II and IV. That first one is special in its own way. Characters are likable, Alice to me is the second final girl in the franchise( Ginny being my favorite) and the second half of the movie is very dark and ominous. As soon as the storm starts that’s were the tone changes. I also think Pamela was great and creepy and it has one of the most iconic horror movie scenes of all time with the boat. The shots of Pamela’s POV were great. The score is amazing Harry Manfredini did a terrific job. Tom Savini’s effects were killer; axe to the face, throat spear they’re iconic. My list:
1. Halloween
2. Friday the 13th
3. Texas Chainsaw
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Child’s Play
6. Hellraiser
6. Hellraiser
5. Childs Play
4. Friday The 13th
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Halloween
1. Nightmare On Elm St.
6. friday the 13th - imagine a sandwhich where the best part is the bread. Not enough meat but the meat you get is great like the kills. Sequels are much better
5. hellraiser. - not what I thought it was gonna be first watch but really good and creative
4 childs play- really Innovative and ahead-of-its- time. Issue is they didn't know what they had but how could you with the first one
3 texas chainsaw- gritty and grimy don't watch this one a lot but it's very intense and very important
2. Elm street - could be my number one but the ending with a blow-up doll drops It to 2 for me
1. Halloween. - no explanation needed
Friday the 13th from 2009 was pretty good!
6. Child's Play 5. Nightmare on Elm Street. 4. Friday the 13th 3. Hellraiser 2. Halloween 1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Halloween 🎃 has one major mistake that even Carpenter hadn’t thought of ( and ya really wouldn’t notice either), but all of the cars have California license plates! ⁉️
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was banned in Australia along with Salo
1. Halloween (not even close. My all-time
favorite pure horror film.)
2. Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Child's Play
4. Friday, the 13th
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Hellraiser
Oh man yeah the 80s! I guess you'd call it a convenience store w/a gas station market or whatever but they had the comic book rack with movies and they had Faces of Death. pretty cool😊
Easy ranking for me: #6: Child's Play/very, well done & creative.... but still a film about a doll. #5. A Nightmare On Elm Street/ Though Robert England brought life to that role; a very, uncomfortable premise with a dead child molester as "the star". #4 Hellraiser /Creepy as hell itself!!! #3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre / A stone-cold classic, but more of a thriller 'till near the end. #2. Halloween/ What can be said that's not been said before + showcases the geniuses of John Carpenter & Debra Hill. #1. Friday the 13th/ My first love are slashers.... & as Chris Alo would say (Boobs & Blood) + a woman being the brutal killer.... well ahead of it's time.
Isn’t that Sylvia or Vera Miles from the original Psycho that is the older version of Part 2 who gets beaned off the head by Norman Bates whilst she’s waiting for a cup of tea 🍵.? She’s the one who turns around the chair in his mother’s basement asking “Mrs.Bates?” as the 🪑 turns very slowly and as the 💡 is swinging back n forth.. then We see her rotting corpse 🧟♂️ Yeaghh! I’m almost sure this was supposedly her from the original 1960’s film 🎞 Yes.?
Child's Play would have to be at the top for me - I don't return to any of the others featured in this episode. Love the first three films from the franchise, especially. They never scared me in the least, though; That little doll had me laughing my ASS off more than anything!
Child's Play is too jokey to be scary, with all the wisecracks and such.
@ Knight Vision l lX V Don't forget "Bride of Chucky". Jennifer Tilly as Chucky's wife is hilarious.
i had a rewinder that looked like a car 😁
1)Nightmare On Elm Street
2)Child Play
3)Friday The 13th
4)Halloween
5)Pet Sematary
6)Psycho
Friday The 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Halloween, Child's Play, and A Nightmare On Elm Street at #1. I put Friday The 13th last, because the first one is one of my least favorite movies. I prefer the sequels, because they have Jason. I put Chainsaw after that, because I haven't watched that one much. I agree with Pete. If a movie or cd slipcover has the same design as the cd or DVD case, that sucker's going in the trash
Crimes of The Future, when the review?
Hellraiser, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Child's Play, Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween is so far above the rest, in my opinion
lol freddy krueger entrance lol
Halloween is the best first movie and its not even close imho.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Hellraiser
Halloween
Friday the 13th
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Child's Play
Outside those 6 :
Alien
The Exorcist
Phantasm
The Evil Dead
Final Destination
you forgot Phantasm did dreams before it
I think Leatherface isn't the monster of the movie. He's the response to how warped the family is. Right or wrong?
I’ve always liked Hellraiser 2 better than the first
I saw Child’s Play in the theater. I love Hellraiser 1,2 and 4. 3 was ok but after Bloodline the rest were horrible lol I was surprised the new Hulu reboot was pretty good.
Childs play 2 is my favorite of the franchise!
I agree
It used to be my favorite too, today I'm leaning toward the explosive CP3 more think it's oddly underrated.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 agreed here. I believe that was the one when Chucky went into the military and caused trouble.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Bride Of Chucky is great too! Btw i like cult of chucky aswell.
jamie…they showed Michael’s face on the tv to everyone at the bar…they knew what he looked like. i watched Halloween Kills…it was enjoyable but stupid. that being said i’ll still watch the next one
as first films go Friday the 13th is for me the weakest, Hellraiser is the best film but as far as franchises go, well thats a different story
Halloween 🗡🎃
Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me then Halloween. Friday the 13th is kinda cheeseball for me.. the last few mins are pretty good though. Chucky, fun but not particularly scary.. So those two movies would rank at the bottom.
Now everything will start coming out in 8k. I would stop buying until you see if that becomes a thing. 8k TVs are out but no movies or streaming yet in that platform yet.
I don't think the human eye can see a difference between 4K and 8K.
I loved the first 3 of the "Child's Play". After that, they pretty much went down hill after that.
Curse of chucky was good!
@@michaelgundersen2982 I am going to have to rewatch it again.
@@markkrispin6944 its pretty good!
I think I might own it at home. Gotta look into it.
the chucky series Is good dude. check it out
The first two creeper movies are better than all the films discussed here.
😂
LOOK WHAT YOUR BROTHER DID TO THE DOOR!!! Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a black comic masterpiece
Yes it is
For me it's Friday the 13th franchise. sure they got ridiculous at the end but I own all the dvd boxsets ; the scream factory bluray set that came out in 2020 , then Halloween next I just think the Halloween franchise made serious mistakes by doing the Rob Zombie remakes which sucked and Halloween kills the ending and the movie is so badly made . next for me it's childs play. I have seen the chucky series they are cool episodes; Nightmare on elm st is awesome too. the Texas chainsaw massacre franchise did the remakes and the prequels they weren't that good. I never got into Hellraiser. they were kinds weird films for me. The candyman franchise is underrated too in my opinion
01 Hellraiser
02 A Nightmare on elm street
03 Texas chainsaw
04 Halloween
05 Childs Play
06 Friday the 13th
6.hellraiser 5.Childs play 4.nightmare on elm street 3.Friday the 13 th 2.Texas chainsaw 1.Halloween just wanna say I went to hellraiser when it first came out and I was asleep in twenty minutes never bothered again .no reason to ever watch child play ever again with the stale jokes
TCM by a country mile.
can we stick to the talking - Like Craig and Chris. Always great. good knowledge and to the point.
I like the visuals...
I don't consider Chucky horror. The Zuni fetish doll is doll horror. Chucky is more like a dark comedy.
I don't like quasi comedy 'horror'.
Twilight Zone puppets, Talky Tina, Zuni fetish doll: Creepy
Chucky? Puppet Master? Not so much...
Good observation. The Zuni Fetish Doll (one story in an anthology movie), Duel, Salem's Lot, and IT are probably the best television horror made before 2000.
Have you guy's ever seen/heard of the British tv programme called simply thriller. There were 6 seasons and they began in 1973, with I think 5 or 6 seasons of all individual stories. It was a mixture of horror, supernatural and creepy thrillers. It was superb when i think back and a boxset of dvd's was produced in 2008, but so far i've not been able to track one down. Just found out they are on UA-cam ua-cam.com/play/PLHhXWiFsHMttTHvQywxXj1QMkK01WEZpY.html