Coltan Scrivner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's seen as totally normal and acceptable.
You just play the Home Alone clip.
So Home Alone is funny because somebody asked me one time, they said, well, given your definition of horror, wouldn't Home Alone be a horror movie?
And I said, well, that's a good point.
You're thinking about it the right way.
I said, but if you think about it, Kevin is like really clever and he has all of this stuff at his disposal.
And the two villains are just like comically horrible.
They're terrible villains.
They don't work together well.
They're idiots.
Yes.
And they're just totally incompetent as burglars.
And so really, Kevin kind of is outmatching them in some ways.
Right.
I mean, that's the purpose of the movie is that he does outmatch them.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So if you had competent burglars, that would be a horror movie.
You're right.
But if you had the black phone guy come into his door, that would be a horror movie.