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Sean Fennessey

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Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

It's been about a 10-year stretch where we had the quote-unquote elevated horror moment, and that dovetailed into a kind of mass consumption moment.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And I think that those two things are very connected.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And a lot of it was kicked off by...

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Studios like Neon and A24 taking chances on younger, more inexperienced filmmakers who hadn't done stuff before.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

I don't think this moment is necessarily like a problem for Universal.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They have Blumhouse.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

It's not a problem for Warner Brothers.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They have New Line.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

I am really interested to see if like

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Disney or Sony or Paramount or Lionsgate or especially Apple and Amazon like start to care about this because it's a genre that most of those studios don't have not spent a lot of time on.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Sony has, of course, with Screen Gems and some other things that they've done over the years.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

But Disney doesn't really make horror movies.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They don't really make scary stuff at all.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They have in the past, but not really very often.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Paramount, it's kind of come and gone.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They did make Smile, which is a really important movie to this moment.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Like, what does an Apple horror movie look like?

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

I don't know.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Widows Bay, their TV show, is fucking awesome.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

It's like one of the best horror things that's come out in the last 10 years.