Halloween

What does a movie need to become a successful franchise? A good writer and a loyal producer, for starters. The Michael Myers saga had both and bloomed into an eight-movie-long blood-splattered series.

Who knows which direction the series would have taken if the mighty producer Moustapha Akkad wasn’t killed with his daughter during bombings in Amman, Jordan, while waiting in the hotel lobby in 2005? It was just a year after Debra Hill, co-writer of the original Halloween died from cancer. Akkad’s son Malek took over as the man who calls the shots on Michael Myers’ action and greenlit two remakes dedicated to his father.

Resident Evil

Resident Evil movie series had its share of gloriously gory demises and the upcoming sixth installment Final Chapter promises to be the most violent one. Sadly, the production of the finale was just as chaotic and bloody.

First, British stuntwoman Olivia Jackson got into a freak accident, when she crashed into a metal camera arm while filming an intense motorbike scene. The injuries were so heavy that her left arm had to be amputated while her face ended up covered in scars. And several days later crew member Ricardo Cornelious was killed by a Hummer, which fell onto him from the rotating platform.