Coltan Scrivner
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And it triggers our morbid curiosity in an incredible way because it's showing you like, if you're this vulnerable, how do you even go about approaching something this terrible and awful?
And I started looking at edge cases, right?
Because that's where you can really test kind of a theory like this.
And so one of the edge cases that I thought was a good one was the movie Predator.
I don't know if you've seen any of the Predator films.
The original.
The original.
Sure.
Yeah.
With Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yeah.
So I thought, OK, Predator is perfect because it's literally in the name.
Right.
You have this incredible, perfect hunting machine that should be the perfect villain.
Right.
So if horror movies are really about fear and terrible bad guys only, then Predator should be a horror film.
But if you watch it.
you realize that, yes, they're a little bit taken aback at first because they're caught by surprise by this perfect hunting machine.
But they're also a group of Green Berets led by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
They're not vulnerable.