Name a horror movie franchise

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Sleepaway Camp— 1983 slasher with an ending so infamous it defined the whole franchise. Cult royalty.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 30 Days of Night
• 47 Meters Down
• A Haunted House
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• Alien vs. Predator
• An American Werewolf in London
• April Fool's Day
• Army of the Dead
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• Basket Case
• Bird Box
• Black Christmas
• C.H.U.D.— Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. The acronym was the best special effect.
• Cabin Fever
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Creep
• Creepshow
• Critters
• Cube
• Dark Water
• Dead Snow
• Deep Blue Sea
• Doom
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Feast
• Firestarter
• Fright Night
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Funny Games
• Gamera
• Ghoulies
• Ginger Snaps
• Goodnight Mommy
• Grave Encounters
• Hammer Horror
• Hatchet
• Haunted Mansion
• Hell House LLC
• Hollow Man
• House of 1000 Corpses
• House of the Dead
• House of Wax
• House on Haunted Hill
• I Spit on Your Grave
• Interview with the Vampire
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Lake Placid
• Let the Right One In
• Maniac
• Maniac Cop
• Martyrs
• Mimic
• Mirrors
• My Bloody Valentine
• Night of the Demons
• One Missed Call
• Open Water
• Phantasm
• Piranha
• Prom Night
• Pulse
• Pumpkinhead
• Rabid
• Re-Animator
• Ready or Not
• Return of the Living Dead
• Salem's Lot
• Scanners
• See No Evil
• Shutter
• Silent Night, Deadly Night
• Slumber Party Massacre
• Speak No Evil
• Species
• Suspiria
• Tales from the Crypt
• Tales from the Hood
• Terror Train
• The ABCs of Death
• The Babysitter
• The Blob
• The Boy
• The Collector
• The Craft
• The Crazies
• The Eye
• The Fog
• The Gallows
• The Haunting
• The Haunting in Connecticut
• The Hitcher
• The Howling
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• The Last Exorcism
• The Last House on the Left
• The Lawnmower Man
• The Lost Boys
• The Prophecy
• The Stepfather
• The Toxic Avenger
• The Wicker Man
• The Wolf Man
• The Woman in Black
• Thirteen Ghosts
• Tomie
• Troll— Troll 2 has no trolls — it has goblins, from the town of Nilbog. Read it backwards. The badness earned its own documentary: Best Worst Movie.
• Unfriended
• Urban Legend
• Vacancy
• Village of the Damned
• Warlock
• Wishmaster

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• American Psycho— Technically a franchise: the direct-to-video sequel exists, and everyone involved pretends it doesn't.
• Anaconda
• Beetlejuice— Say it three times and the sequel appears. It only took thirty-six years.
• Blade
• Candyman
• Carrie
• Children of the Corn
• Cloverfield
• Don't Breathe
• Dracula
• Escape Room
• Fear Street
• Frankenstein
• Ghostbusters— House ruling: it counts. Ghosts, demons, a hundred-foot marshmallow man — comedy is just how they coped.
• Godzilla
• Goosebumps
• Gremlins
• Hannibal Lecter— Five films and the only horror franchise with a Best Picture on the shelf. Chianti optional.
• Happy Death Day
• Hocus Pocus
• Hostel
• Jeepers Creepers
• King Kong
• Night of the Living Dead
• Nosferatu
• Orphan
• Ouija
• Pet Sematary
• REC
• Sharknado
• Silent Hill
• Sinister
• The Amityville Horror
• The Black Phone
• The Descent
• The Fly
• The Hills Have Eyes
• The Human Centipede
• The Invisible Man
• The Meg
• The Mummy
• The Omen
• The Shining
• The Strangers
• The Thing
• Train to Busan
• Tremors
• Underworld
• Universal Monsters
• V/H/S
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
• Wolf Creek
• Wrong Turn
• X
• Zombieland

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• 28 Days Later
• A Quiet Place
• Alien
• Annabelle
• Child's Play
• Final Destination
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• Hellraiser
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Insidious
• It
• Jaws
• M3GAN
• Paranormal Activity
• Poltergeist
• Predator
• Psycho
• Resident Evil
• Scary Movie— A parody counts when the whole franchise is horror-shaped. Six films in, and everyone typed it grinning.
• Smile
• Terrifier
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Evil Dead
• The Exorcist
• The Grudge
• The Nun
• The Purge
• The Ring
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Leprechaun— The 'so-bad-it's-a-franchise' pick. Seven movies, and every horror nerd cites it.
• Puppet Master— The direct-to-video deep-cut flex. Fifteen films the whole schlock crowd knows.

The most common answer on the board.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Friday the 13th
• Halloween
• Saw
• Scream
• The Conjuring