It is the most successful film in the franchise since Saw IV.The Saw series , when compared to the other high-grossing American horror franchises—A Nightmare on Elm Street , Child 's Play , Friday the 13th , Halloween , the Hannibal Lecter series , Hellraiser , Psycho , Scream , The Exorcist , and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—with figures adjusted for 2011 inflation , is the fifth-highest-grossing horror franchise in the United States and Canada at $ 457.4 million .
Chucky is a high grossing American horror franchise .