Coltan Scrivner

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.

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.