The guy who did the score and played the ghost is called pretty high up there, without being chosen. — Chris Ryan
Rose Byrne wins it for one participant for a really good mother-in-terror performance. — Chris Ryan
James Wan is another pick: he changed the course of his career and the horror genre by refusing to be pigeonholed as the Saw guy. — Chris Ryan
A case is made for Lynn Shay, who went from That Guy to the star of the series and a horror linchpin; the wording is hedged and not counted as a ballot.
James Wan is first argued to be at Apex because this breaks him out of the Saw pigeonhole and opens every door; Furious 7 is raised as a challenge.
The Conjuring is then accepted as Wan's Apex instead: it made three times as much, cost 20 million, is a better movie and a bigger contribution, and it leads to Furious. — Sean Fennessey
The Conjuring franchise is preferred; Insidious was abandoned around the third film, and doing Insidious before The Conjuring on the podcast would have made more sense. — Sean Fennessey
A joke imagines Wan living somewhere bright with no creaks rather than a Victorian mansion in Echo Park. — Sean Fennessey
Apex Mountain for astral traveling is raised, noting Behind Her Eyes, without an answer. — Sean Fennessey
Joseph Beshara is affirmed as at Apex Mountain, as both the demon and the score, likened to Johnny Greenwood acting in There Will Be Blood. — Bill Simmons
Best quote is said to be already covered; the Rock's line about putting a hurt on him "so bad he's going to wish his mom had kept her legs closed" is mentioned, joked as a one-liner the Rock pitched to James Wan. — Bill Simmons
