Sean Fennessey
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There are always going to be pivots against that.
But something about Obsession just being an indie makes me think that it's contributing to the quote-unquote moment aspect.
Yeah, I agree.
There's an ineffable quality.
I just saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma yesterday.
I'm so excited to see that.
And it's such an interesting movie, and it almost feels like a movie that is...
it's a movie that's like responding to the last 40 years of horror movies, but for all of these things to kind of be happening simultaneously for the postmodern reading, plus a back roomsie and internet focused thing, plus a really more classical monkey's paw movie that still has the juice like obsession happening.
It's just a fascinating time for the genre and at the movies.
Okay.
So you, I think you set it up perfectly too with He-Man, which is that this is an old playbook.
This is a movie that is using something that feels like on purpose,
If you just showed a photograph of the characters to a young child, they would be interested, but I'm not sure that the IP holds the same sway in the same way that Star Wars and superhero films and Transformers and a lot of other things have been drafting off of millennial and Gen X born interests.
This being, and I'll use that as a way to kind of talk about our histories with this character in this world.
I've said before, He-Man is my first obsession.
It is my first, like, I need to collect all the toys line.
It started in 1982, the year of my birth, by Mattel.
Many people think the cartoon started first.
It did not.
This was an action figure line first and foremost that then developed IP out of it.