Coltan Scrivner

So Pennywise and It, right?

And that was really unique to horror.

It's the only genre where the hero is not very strong, not very capable, or at least is very overwhelmed by the villain.

So in the case of It, again, you have powerful villain, supernatural clown thing, shapeshifting clown, but then you also have just regular kids, right?

Which are the most vulnerable protagonists you could imagine.

And that creates a perfect formula for a horror story.

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.