If an ‘Expendables of horror’ ever got off the ground, who do you think should be slicing and dicing?

Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead renown has come out (once again) and urged the film industry to get a horror-movie answer to The Expendables up and running (with axe-wielding maniac not far behind). He’s even got a script. Given that the Sly Stallone crew consisted of over-the-hill 80s action stars reliving past glories, it’s not too imagination-stretching to see a movie face-off between 80s horror icons such as Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers and Ash himself. (In fact, a toe has already been dipped in those waters with the 2003 film Freddy Vs Jason).

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But would they, could they, actually band together against some common foe? (Not all that likely, given their distinctly anti-social tendencies.) Who could that common foe be? The disembodied spirit of Bela Lugosi hovering over an electric chair? Growly-voiced Linda Blair informing all and sundry who sucks what where? Or maybe witchy Fairuza Balk, invoking spirits at a 12-grade level?

So who do you think should be in an Expendables of horror? Grab your longshoreman’s hook and let us know below.