Jason Zinoman

The Amityville Horror, 1979.

It's the passage...

Yeah.

Amityville is the name of a town on Long Island, and you can't copyright the name of a town.

No, because there's... Oh, so now Eric's not smart.

horror all right let's put it on the bubble that's what it when there's a when there's a wholesale agreement we'll move it forward when there's disagreement put on the bubble uh alien 1979 first movie skunk cult classic yes uh we'll move it forward we're in the 80s now the height of the slasher film and we are going to come upon uh a couple of the all-time franchises although i think jason might disagree with no no no uh friday the 13th move it forward okay poltergeist

The Evil Dead.

For sure.

Definitely qualifies.

Okay.

1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

This is God.

I am a fan of the first one, which I think is tremendous.

I know, Eric, you are a fan of the second one.

The next one, it's a bit of an odd one, but I'm going to throw it in here.

1986's Manhunter, which is a Michael Mann movie.

That's really a crime movie, but it starts...

what will become a horror franchise five years later with The Silence of the Lambs, which is one of the only horror movies to ever win Best Picture.

The thing that connects all of these, of course, is Hannibal Lecter, played by Brian Cox in Manhunter, and then Anthony Hopkins for the rest of the movies.

Fly, fly, fly.