User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/SnakeTongue's Worst Horror Films Ever Made/@comment-25052433-20150926015819/@comment-24101790-20150926020615

" It came out after what was supposed to be the final Freddy movie, and tried to break the 4th wall, having Robert Englund and such playing themselves, and implying that the "spirit" of Freddy somehow was alive and attacking the actual actors."

And Banning spawns a disturbing amount of conspiracy theories about the death of Wes Craven.

(Dark) Jokes aside, horror movies seem to inspire this sentiment that if the first one is successful, re-make it until the audience hates it, and then keep going.