Jason Zinoman

Got a little tense in here.

A little bit.

Eric.

Jason.

I agree.

Okay, let's take it off.

So much agreement here.

I am going to advocate for A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The first movie, one of my all-time favorite horror movies, I think, of the major slashers, as we think about them, Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies, Michael Myers from the Halloween movies, maybe even Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies.

Freddy Krueger's the only one with personality.

He is the only one that has a little a little verb, a little pop.

And that's important.

I think if you are going to be a character that holds a franchise over multiple movies, you're right, Jason.

He gets silly.

He becomes a comedic character.

I think that comedy and horror coexist very easily.

And I know you agree.

I also think there's something about these movies.

You use the right word surreal, particularly in the first movie.

The fact that you are operating with dream logic for much of these movies just gives it a different flavor than all of these other ones, which ostensibly, other than the supernatural ones, exist in the real world.