Jason Zinoman

You guys are the perfect, perfect pair to talk about both of those things.

The VHS series.

2013's The Conjuring.

I'm, just for the sake of time, going to say this one.

It has to be on there.

Yeah, okay.

The third series that James Wan has worked on.

2013's The Purge.

Guys, I love how we're getting really, really vicious here right at the end.

And then 2018's Terrifier.

I'm going to

One of the most out of nowhere surprising horror success stories in the past many years.

These are extremely low budget movies, extremely violent and gory.

And Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 have made a ton of money at the American box office.

All right, so Jason, Eric, we just went through so many franchises, but somehow we've narrowed it down to 15 that we've agreed we're going to move forward to the debate that we're about to have about what the 10 greatest horror movie franchises of all time are.

And I'm going to read those 15 very quickly.

The Universal Monsters franchise, the Night of the Living Dead series,

The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Alien, Friday the 13th, The Evil Dead series, Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Final Destination, Saw, Paranormal Activity, VHS, and The Conjuring films.

This is a slightly perverse list, but...

Gather your thoughts.