Coltan Scrivner

They did that because both of them

hated slasher films they liked halloween which i think is actually more of a thriller and i think that's probably why they liked it the original halloween they liked and then everything that came out after the slasher they just absolutely hated and so they dedicated this entire episode called women in danger films to all of these like spade of slashers that came out after and in particular friday the 13th is the one they were targeting the most because they had the widest reach or the broadest reach

And like Gene Siskel, for example, so he wrote for, I think the Tribune, Ebert wrote for the Sun Times, both in Chicago.

And in Siskel's official review of Friday the 13th in the Tribune, which a million or more people at that time read, he spoiled the endings to dissuade people from watching it.

And then he did like an OG version of cancellation where he docks the chairman of, I think it was Paramount that put that out.

He published the address of the chairman and encouraged people to send hate mail.

And then he published the address of the main actress.

Her name was Betsy Palm

I think was her name.

Yes.

And like the address of the chairman and said, send them hate mail, encourage them not to do things like this again.

And in this TV show, they talk about this.

And both of them, what I found really interesting was, sure, it's a film critic's job to hate movies.

There's going to be movies they hate.

That is their job.

But what I thought was interesting is they talked a lot in this episode about the psychology of people who did like the film.

So not only did they say, hey, this film sucked because the story sucked and the acting sucked and the whatever.

But if you like it, you're a bad person.

Exactly.

If you like it.