Coltan Scrivner

In particular, they thought that people who liked it hated women and were very sick people.

And it shocked me because these were two, again, like of the best film critics in the world.

And they couldn't separate their personal viewpoint of what they thought of the people who liked the films from just rating and critiquing the film itself.

And so I thought, OK, this has to be studied.

Right.

I know one of those guys passed away decades ago.

Gene Siskel passed away, I think.

before Roger Ebert.

And Roger Ebert passed away in the past maybe decade or so.

It's a whole thing.

I thought the same kind of thing, like maybe times have changed.

That was like four years ago, right?

That was the rise of the women's movement.

And maybe they thought, okay, maybe this is a counter to that.

I think if they had put a little more thought into their expertise as film critics, they would have realized that

Most of those early slashers in particular, what is the biggest trope of the 80s slashers?

The final girl.

That is a woman who is severely outmatched, and yet she still finds a way through her smarts or her endurance to overcome these really terrible things.

That's like the most feminist thing I can think of.

Right.