It doesn’t matter how many times a slasher villain dies, they will return.
Even if a long-running film series has been stretched past the point of credulity, the villain will somehow be back.
“Friday the 13th” has traversed Jason Voorhees’ constant returns with little explanation, eventually clarifying that he is possessed by a demon (if one prefers “Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday“) or that he is afflicted with a rare medical condition that allows his cells to spontaneously regenerate (if one prefers “Jason X”).
“Halloween,” meanwhile, has allowed Michael Myers’ constant return by incessantly rebooting itself.
At last count, there are at least five separate continuities across 13 “Halloween” movies. In 1994, Wes Craven cleverly introduced an in-film reason for Freddy Krueger — the undead, claw-handed dream demon from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” — to constantly return.
In “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” the filmmaker appears as himself to explain
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