The other day I was reading yet another article that mentioned 2015 as the “future” year that Marty McFly visits in BTTF2, and what we don’t have yet in the actual 2015. One of the things mentioned was that we haven’t made it to “Jaws 19” yet, which got me to wondering: what movie franchise has the highest numbered sequel? (As opposed to the highest number of sequels, which is not what I want.)
“Jaws” actually only had sequels numbered up to 3. (“3-D”, actually, but I’ll allow it.)
The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series made it to 5 before dropping the numbers.
“Friday the 13th” got up to VIII before it stopped numbering the sequels.
“Leonard Part 6” does not count, since it was not a sequel and there were no other films in the series.
Please re-read the OP. He wants the highest title-numbered (one with the sequel number in the title), not the one with the actual highest number of sequels. This would mean that Land Before Time XII would count, while the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall would not. Halloween H2O-Twenty Years Later indicates years, not sequel numbers.
edited to add: Otherwise, the OP would have just asked for the movie title with the highest number in it, and not have bothered indicating anything about sequels.
Heh. If we limited it to movies numbered sequentially, where the number in the title actually had to be the ordinal number of that movie in the franchise, I wouldn’t be surprised if a porn movie franchise was the “winner.”