An Avengers-styled horror franchise that can work
I don't mean Monster Mash. I mean Freddy, Jason (stick with me), Chucky, Herbert West, The Necronomicon (seeing the connections?), Mia/Ash Williams, and Cassie Hack. I am ignoring the 'Jason was adopted by Leatherface's family' storyline (yes, that happened) and ignoring Sidney Prescot whom I'd otherwise add if not for her living in "our world."
I will make the connections here and then loosely detail the possible plot of such a film franchise. Also, this is fairly extensive, though leaves various connections out that aren't necessary for the explanation. If you know all of the connections already between each of these characters, feel ree to skip this section.
P.S. - The end result may well be fairly corny but again, this is Horror Avengers.
Freddy and Jason have already fought. Their match-up was predestined (technically since Jason Goes To Hell) given the very nature of their creations. I'm not saying Freddy vs Jason was good, though I personally enjoyed it. Freddy was a child-molesting pervert, reborn in fire: sex, fire. Jason was child reborn in water, while camp leaders were having sex instead of watching him.
Jason's mother was able to bring him back via The Necronomicon which she momentarily possessed. In Jason Goes To Hell, several, though questionable, Necromicon-esque happenings occur, one of them being Jason getting pulled in to Hell by deadites. At the end of the film of course, Freddy's hand reaches up to grab the hockey mask.
Years later (I'm skipping a lot), the hockey mask is being kept in an evidence locker, along with other iconic items; chainsaw, white mask with brunette hair... Chucky's torn body is stolen from this same evidence locker and stitched back together. Some more years later, Chucky fights Cassandra Hack, who [will] team up with Ash J. Williams, who has already (sort-of) fought against the zombie-deadite creations of Herbert West when Herbert was using the Necronomicon. Also, Herbert West? Necronomicon? Both creations of H. P. Lovecraft. And Ash Williams being in the Dynamite universe (yes, Dynamite has an entire universe of comics and characters) brings in many other names that I won't bother with, including Evil Ernie who like any other citizen shops at S-Mart and has fought (pre-reboot) Cassie Hack buuut that's unrelated.
So that's out of the way.
Reboot Re-Animator, just the first movie if anything. Stay away from campy though. Keep it true horror like Evil Dead. Cast Daniel Radcliff. Look at him and look at the Herbert West from the Re-Animator film franchise. Exactly. Plus, Daniel as both the villain and main character of his own story? I don't see this going wrong. Plus it coincides with another sort-of main character villain...
Chucky. He's got a film coming out right now! And it looks like a true horror story. So, that means Chucky's back in business and killing again. And if he's not killing to get a human body, he's still killing happily for no reason so there's no real "Finally, I have reached my goal in life" until he's killed almost everybody. And from my understanding, this new movie falls in to that fairly new genre reboot/sequel, much like...
Evil Dead. That film was amazing, right? And it's getting a sequel. You know what kind of has to be in that sequel or at least still exists? The Necronomicon, though the title has been translated in to a different language, it is the Necronomicon. And who's used the Necronomicon before, though not in a movie?
Herbert West, who (in-movie) perhaps toward the end of Re-Animator 2, acquires the Necronomicon on his travels, as one of those stopping points will be the cabin from Evil Dead. That I recall, it is not entirely uncommon knowledge that two archeologists of the esoteric nature had been staying there.
At the same time, finally release the Hack/Slash movie. Cassandra Hack's whole thing is that she fights "slashers." Cameos are a part of her book. Now, for Hack/Slash 1 you've already got a story and a half: Her origin plus rescuing Vlad, with many battles in between. Hack/Slash 2? Also Chucky 1.5. It was a small battle that occurred in her book, Cassie vs Chucky, that would make for a pretty entertaining story if allowed to grow. With Hack/Slash all around, you're going to have some camp. That's unavoidable. Chucky? He can do both horror and camp. He's the perfect candidate as villain for a Hack/Slash movie.
"Avengers": Now, I don't know whether or not Ash is in the picture regarding Evil Dead but we've got Mia and she's bad ass enough for me. After being possessed by a Deadite (or turned in to an "abomination?") in Evil Dead 1 by the Necronomicon, it is not unreasonable to suggest that she may still be connected to the book in some way and can tell something is up by the migraines and nightmares she's getting. (It's a horror movie. Horror movie logic.) And it turns out the random "slashers" Cassie Hack and Vlad have been facing lately, aren't your regular "slashers." They're more like zombies with personalities. So when one of many naturally strays from the commands of Herbert West who's been using the Necronomicon to further his experiments, and reaches out to Mia to bring her back in to the folds of Hell... Infer the rest for yourself. The two team up, maybe Cassie is inspired by and gives Mia the idea to strap the chainsaw from the evidence locker on to the stump of her wrist, yada yada... :)
Evil Dead
Re-Animator
Chucky
Evil Dead 2
Re-Animator 2 (ED2 and R-A2 are interchangeable as far as order goes. Depends on plot specifics)
Hack/Slash
Hack/Slash 2: Child's Play
"Avengers"
Re-Animator is your Iron Man, bringing all the films together.
Herbert West specifically is your Loki
The Necronomicon is your Cosmic Cube
Etc....
"Avengers: Phase 2":
Chucky 2
(Pretend Freddy vs Jason and Freddy vs Jason vs Ash happens right here and just move on)
Chuck & Fred: The Movie (an over the top blood-sport buddy movie that's almost too morbid to be considered camp quite yet, in which Freddy and Chucky go on a cross-country killing spree and at the end must fight... ASH! who remembers the events of Freddy vs Jason vs Ash) It'll work. Trust me. Ash can make an appreciated "cameo" in a horror film without the entire film having to be about him.)
Hack/Slash 3: Freddy has gained a literal cult following called "The Cult of Freddy" or "Fredheads" (look that up, if you can find anything on it. It's part of an abandoned Elm Street script idea) and must kill them all. Could be hell a scary if done right, actually.
I'll leave it at that for now. And you know what? Horror "Avengers" Phase 1 doesn't sound so corny after all!
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