Coltan Scrivner

Yes.

I was surprised because I was like, surely these guys saw the whole movie, right?

They understand that, like what the trope is in these.

You know, I saw when the movie Spiral came out, that was like the ninth installment in the Saw franchise.

There was another well-known film critic who published a scathing review, which is fine.

But again, he didn't just critique the film.

He had thoughts about the psychology of the people who liked the film.

And he called them depraved lunatics who should not be around most people or other living things.

Yeah, when I give talks on this, I talk about that.

And then I show a chart of the Saw films and how much money they've grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.

It's like, well, that means there's a lot of psychopaths running around out there, if that's true, right?

So again, I thought, okay, this really needs to be studied, because this is not just the past, you know, thing.

It's an exception to the rule.

Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah.

I would say it depends, right?

So for the kids, it probably is a little scarier, right?

We put up some great Halloween decorations, given what I do.

And we live in a very Halloween-centric town, and I organize some of the big Halloween events here.

And so