Jason Zinoman

I think it does.

I do think it qualifies.

I think if you look back at all the Universal Monster movies, it definitely has a feel of a franchise.

You have Bride of Frankenstein, as you mentioned, Son of Frankenstein.

You have Frankenstein meeting the Wolfman eventually.

You have this world before we ever thought about interconnected universes in which...

You know, there's a house style.

Characters are interacting with one another.

You have essentially direct sequels to some of these movies.

It feels like this is the beginning.

Yeah, but you understand that we need to have rules here, right?

Okay.

Eric, we know who the chaos agent is.

Can we agree Universal franchise should proceed?

Okay.

We're going to move to the early 1960s.

1960, in fact, when one of the first slasher movies, the first slasher movie, if we consider Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's all-time classic to be a slasher movie.

came out in 1960 no one thought it would be a franchise but starting in the early 80s you had Psycho 2 Psycho 3 and then Psycho 4 at the beginning which was a prequel TV movie this is very weird we're gonna encounter some of these it's a franchise where the first movie is one of the greatest movies ever

of all time.

As a franchise, as something that is, like, all held together, I don't know that I would put it on the list, but I'm looking at Jason, and I know... Well, no, among horror nerds, Psycho 2 has developed a re-evaluate.