 You're wearing a Halloween 3 t-shirt. Halloween 3 is the second best of the franchise. Dig your way. Justice for Tommy Lee Rollins. I need to. I need to. And Sarbarion was trash, though. Oh, wow. What? What? Anybody want to replace this? What? I hated that movie. OK, why? I just need to know why. I'm almost a week out from Megacon, the four-day event in Orlando, Florida. And I'm still recovering. I'm still a tired panda. But I'm going to get through this video quick and go over some of the highlights. So quick overview of what happened. I was invited by Sean Chandler and Cody Leach, fellow movie critics, to head down to Orlando, Florida to talk movies for a few days. I did three of the four days of movie panels. There was a hot takes panel. There was a, is the comic book, Bubble Burst. And there was a horror panel. I was on those. I had a great time. I learned a lot. I looked at my performance and definitely took about 3,000 notes for the future if I go back to one, which I absolutely hope to do. Bottom line is this was a great experience for me. It was an awesome time being able to meet people that I've never seen before. I've only had the experience of an avatar under a YouTube comment. And so after doing this for over a decade, it was so wonderful to be able to actually put faces to names and realize, wow, when I'm working in my studio, I'm in my cave year after year, just pumping out content and hoping someone's watching and listening to finally see that and understand that, oh my God, wow, people do actually watch my show and they do have some of the same ideas about movies I do. And they're just passionate about film. It was incredibly heartening. It was a, it gave me a warm glow in my tummy and I felt great about it. I mean, maybe that was, that could have been indigestion too because I didn't eat very well, but regardless, the other piece that really brought joy to my balls was meeting Cody, meeting Sean, meeting some of these other people along for the ride and getting these connections. I'm gonna have some of them on my live stream. I already did a live stream with the guys I was with. It was a fantastic time. You can find that on the live tab on my YouTube channel. But for today, I'm gonna be showing highlights from these three panels I was on. No context needed. I'll try to like kind of build into them, but they were a great time. I had a blast. You can find the full panels on my Patreon at patreon.com slash adamdosmovies. I know Sean has already posted one on his channel. Cody's gonna post one on his and they have a few other panels to do. I don't know if all three of them are gonna be available on their YouTube channels, but I'm giving you the highlights and if you're a supporter, you get those already on Patreon. It's a win-win-win really at the end of the day. So without further ado, here is some of the highlights from 2024's Megacon. Enjoy. You're wearing a Halloween- It was two truths and a lie. Halloween three is the second best of the franchise. Dicks your way. Justice for Tommy Lee Rawls. If you are a human being and you know, well, we all know what happened to Paul Walker. We grew up with Paul Walker. We love Paul Walker. I don't care if you hate all the fast movies. There is no way you watch Fast 7 and you watch that ending and you do not cry. I wept like a five-year-old girl watching my girl for the first time. It's been a long day. I see, I knew I liked you, my friend. And I tell you all about, and I see the montage where they're looking at each other. Bro, he pulls up. I got goosebumps just thinking about it. He goes, do you think you could leave without saying goodbye? The original Friday the 13th from 1980 is a terrible movie. I don't care if it started one of the most iconic franchises as a film. It's not made well. There's so many things in that film that just add to nothing. There's a whole fucking scene for like two minutes where they just stand on a dock. There's nothing in the scene. They have a snake that they kill. Why? Because they have nothing else to do. They're trying to make a Halloween rip-off, had no plot. And who's the killer at the end of it? Oh, hi old woman that we've never met the entire fucking movie. Wow, I don't know if we can be friends after this because the first Friday the 13th film is a brilliant slasher. It kicked off so much of 80s horror because it showed people that yes, you can rob a major hit. And out of that, we can get a new villain that can carry the torch when they weren't making any Halloween films in the 80s. We didn't get Halloween 4 till 1984. By that point, we were on what? Final chapter? Because Jason fucking lives son. He was alive. He was slaying. Did they expect that to happen? No. Jason shows. You take her back and forth. You have one minute to duke it out. Go. Jason doesn't show up till the second film. Yes. So I don't really care about Jason. But you know what shows up in the first film? Tom Savini's special makeup effects that change everything. That's something that we will agree on with it. But you also have them in four. You have them in a lot of other horror films. But when you watch that original movie, it's only popular. It's only beloved because the franchise is beloved. And as much as Betsy Palmer is awesome in the role, the way that they utilize her for a who done it completely breaks how you do a who done it. Because we don't know who the fuck done it until she just shows up and says, hi, here's the thing. I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think it's fucking awesome. And it doesn't matter because the first time you watched that movie, do you guys remember the first time you saw Friday the 13th? Did you go into it knowing that Mrs. Voorhees was the killer? I did not. Because I saw Scream first. Here's my hot take. Are you ready? I do not, Eng and Katara should not be a couple. No, what? That's right. I said it. I said it. Here's my arguments. Ready? Dante Bosco is Zuko and he's really attractive. And I think Katara and Zuko would be a much more interesting, complex couple than Eng and Katara. Here's why. Zuko and Katara have a lot more in common than Eng and Katara. They have both lost their mothers to the Fire Nation. They both have to deal with trauma, which matures them a lot faster for their age. They are 16 and 14 in the cartoon. All right. Is that your final thought? That's what, I could keep going, but yeah. Okay, but no. There wasn't a single thought in there. So I don't, where was the first thought? I feel like this audience is on my side. Listen, this is gonna kind of go against me but opposites attract. And I know one's water, one's fire type. That's fine. But Eng and Katara complete each other because they're so separate. They're so different. And they grew to each other over three books, over three seasons. We grew with them. They got a very gym helper, Pam Beasley relationship. Will they, won't they? We want them to. People want these two together. And yes, the show's biggest fault is that it gave audiences exactly what they wanted. And for some reason that's now bad. I don't know what happened where we decided that good things are bad things and cats and dogs live together in harmony. It's true. One minute, argue back and forth. Okay, great. Eng is 12 in the series and he spends most of the series trying to learn to take ownership for the fact he didn't want to be the avatar to begin with. Character growth, yes. Sure, character growth. So is Zuko's. But I'm saying Eng at the end of the series is only 13 and he's still a child. He acts like a child. And I think everyone in the series actually calls him a kid several times over and over again. He needs to mature a little bit more before he takes on a romantic relationship because he didn't even learn to take responsibility. They don't get married at the end of the season. They'd have a kiss. They share a kiss. It should have been Zuko. It should have been Zuko. Zuko spent half of the season. No, two of the freaking seasons trying to kill them. So maybe she's still a little frosty over that. I understand if Zuko understood Katara. He understood her need to confront her killer just like he confronted his father for his child. 10 seconds. This is fancasting like Ray and Kylo Ren. It's a terrible idea when you actually try it out. But that actually was canon though. All right. How dare you? Who agrees with Bevin her hot take? They shouldn't have ended up together. Where am I? Where am I right now? All right. Where are the romantics in the room? You agree with Adam that they belong together. Thank you. Yes, yes. You can't clap yourself. Yo, yo, that was cheating. You have a mic. There's too many remakes. We all think there's too many remakes. But we all have that one. We're like, yeah, but I think it would be great if we remade this one. Come back to me. Do I come back? Can you define like how far back is classic? You can do whatever you want. I'll kick this one out. Back to the future. It's a transferable concept. It's a great movie. That is why. 1985 high school, going back to 1955, is this different. You should be disgusted to call yourself a film fan with an answer like that. This is real. This is terrible. I hate this. I hate that you put me up here. Like this isn't even an answer I disagree. Like I fundamentally am judging you as a human being right now. I'm so sorry, but that is the truth. We got a picture with them. We got them yesterday. We took it yesterday and Biff bullied us. That we had to retake it. We walked back and he goes, you doofus is coming back through again. Can't even take a picture. Like we got bullied by Biff. But also went and recast for the year 2025. All right, that's mine. Nice, simple take there. You just got to, which one do you think should be remade? All right, so we're gonna be a little subjective with the word classic. This is a classic to me. Face off. The John Woo movie from the 90s. Fucking classic. It's his best American movie. So why remade you? You get two charismatic leads that have the charisma of somebody like Nicholas Cage and John Travolta. Like there's been a lot of speculation on like Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds. I know it's obvious. Get two people like that and do the same concept, fucking gold. I actually want to see that. So I don't think that's a hot take. I think that's just a good, good pitch right there. Yeah, I'm convinced. I disagree wholeheartedly, not just halfheartedly because you even proved it. You got two charismatic leads with Cage and Travolta at their peak. So why try to reinvent the wheel? Nicholas Cage has not peaked. I'm just putting that out there. The man is still in his fucking prime. That's fair. All right. Next, who, what? You're reading that guy. We're really pushing the envelope with the word classic, but we talked about this earlier. I'm gonna go with it. Battlefield Earth. Let's do it right this time. Let's do it right. There's no version of Battlefield Earth that's done right. That's the point. It's another Travolta vehicle, and I don't think he's in his peak in this one. First of all, the first Battlefield Earth is fantastic. It just happens to be fantastic in an ironic way that no one was intending. That's fair. And there is no version of that film that is grounded and good. We're gonna make one. Christopher Nolan's gonna direct. It's gonna be three and a half hours long. And who's starring in it besides, we bring him back, John, to do it again? DiCaprio's coming in. DiCaprio's the manimal. If I'm a billionaire, I'm funding that fucking movie today, just to see how I won you over. No, no, he's very much convinced me. We need to remake a Battlefield Earth starring that cast. First comic book movie I saw in theaters, the first one I can remember was Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi. I'm a huge, oh yeah, I got it. I'm a huge Sam Raimi fan in general plus Spider-Man. So that's the first one I remember. And my favorite comic book movie is Spider-Man 2. Very cool, all right. My favorite comic book movie, for the longest time I've said Captain America Winter Soldier, that just kind of plays into all that old school action, espionage stuff that I love. But over the past couple of years, I'm tempted to say The Batman. Everything that that guy did with The Batman just works for me. So that might be the new number one. And the first comic book movie that I personally can remember seeing was Birth of the Bat Nipple. Batman Returns. Excuse me, Batman Forever. 1996, seven. Favorite comic book movie? I go with the original Superman the movie, Christopher Reeves, that's the one I grew up with. So born in, yes, born in 1981. And in the 80s, he was our superhero. So those ones shaped me for me and to taking it seriously, the score, phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. Those are my picks. What did you think about Godzilla minus one? So my favorite comic book movie is probably X-Men 2, X-Men United. I'm a big X-Men fan, so that one just hit all the right notes for me. The first movie I remember seeing in theaters, I think is probably one of my favorite Batman movies, Batman Returns. Catwoman right there. She gets it, she gets it. All right, there you go. And you don't have both of them. No, the first comic book movie I vividly remember seeing in theaters to kind of age myself here was Iron Man 2. And then back in, what, 2010? So I was 10 years old. I was about to turn 30. Yeah, there you go. And my favorite is probably the most recent film here as well, Avengers Infinity War. I adore that film. It's the beginning of the end for the early goings of the MCU and the most rewatchable comic film to me. I know, like, so Cody, I know in your position, you used to watch all the Marvel stuff and you're just like, I don't keep up. Like, what's your take on it? Yeah, so I grew up in the 90s where I mean, it was like kind of how we're still are with like video game adaptations. You see a new comic book film, you kind of get excited, but you know what it's probably gonna be like. And if it's just tolerable, you're surprised. And then we get the era where suddenly there's this consistently like great track record with Marvel and DC's doing interesting stuff. And even when we had the Fox X-Men universe, it was like, man, what a great time to be a comic book fan. Past two years, if I have to watch a comic book property, it's like going to the fucking dentist. It's like, I just don't care. There's homework involved. You're not selling me on it. If I wait three days, nobody that I trust is saying anything that's motivated me to really set aside that time. So there's few exceptions. We got some great ones here and there, but for the most part, yeah, when we see a new comic book movie or especially a Disney plus show, I just can't care. I can't force myself to care until they care. Well, even kind of in what you just said, your favorite comic book movie of all time came out less than two years ago. But at the same time, the genre as a whole, it's like, what's going on? I just feel tired of these things. A lot of times when I see Marvel stuff over the past two years, it's like a Taco Bell advertisement. If you like Taco Bell, what do they do when they want you to do, they want to come try your new item? Hey, limited time only. Come try the new cheesy, spicy, crispy Dorito box thing. And then you get excited. You go and slam your money down. You take a bite and you're like, you sons of bitches. This is the same ingredients you've been serving me since 94. And that's how the last number of them have felt. It's the same ingredients, the same formula with a new skin, but they don't feel different. They feel like I've seen this 18 times before. But ever since Iron Man 2, it's been an event to go to the MCU, you know, to the theater for new MCU movie each year. And when they were doing two a year, it was like you get one in like May, one in maybe November. It was an awesome time. Now we definitely live in an era of oversaturation, but it's weird. The way I look at it is like the MCU, I would put a stamp on it, hit or miss. It's like, oh, they'll put out this movie that I hated and then they'll have Loki season two and I'll be like, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. You know, it's one of those situations. And so I will always like, I'm so far in, so many people my age I talked to are so deeply committed. They're gonna watch every new MCU project for the rest of their lives. It's almost, it's kind of a chore at times, honestly. But I do love some of the things we're getting, but that's where I stand with like the MCU. I think a lot of non-MCU projects, that's where this genre is excelling right now. I will say the oversaturation is a huge issue for me. We went to Universal last night after hours and we were able to go on the same roller coaster over and over again. And after the third or fourth time on Hagra's, as great as that ride is, it loses a bit of its luster. And I feel like Marvel keeps trying to repackage these things, but like Cody said, it's just a Taco Bell meal in a different wrapper with a different name. The last year we had Ant-Man in the Wasp, Quantum Mania, or as I lovingly refer to it, Quantum Shidia. Thor, Love and Thunder. My mom watches these, she doesn't like that kind of language. I apologize to Sean Chandler's mom, who doesn't like the salty language. I noticed you didn't scold Cody when he swore earlier, but that's fine, that's fair. And Thor, Love and Thunder was just absolutely embarrassing. I think this whole idea of just green screen churning burn is getting really played out. They put these digital backgrounds, nothing seems real. Even when you're an Asgard or a magical place, you can still get a connection with these actors, as long as there's something tangible and physical there, but they're just so stock at this point. It does really feel like AI is taken over these movies, and it's just not magical, much like the rides were last night. They don't really have an end game, or like to what end are we going now? I feel like every phase of Marvel was kind of leading somewhere, and that kind of built up some just general excitement, and we got to enjoy the individual stories along the way. And I think now they're just like trying to hit beats almost, like, oh, here's a character that you all like. Isn't that good enough now? And so I think rudderlessness is a big problem. It's like so many of these characters, like when are we gonna see them again? Who are the current Avengers? Like we introduced characters back four years ago, and we don't know when we will see them again. Yeah. I think like the post-credits scenes thing was really like popularized by Marvel, and now it's almost like a, it's almost gimmicky, because like there's all these, I don't have to like remember, like there was something at the end of Eternals that was like pretty significant, and you know. Harry Styles, like Harry Styles is in the MCU. Guys, that's how they fix it. Harry Styles One Direction. There's also a giant hand coming out of half of the planet that they just don't address anymore, which seems like that would be a thing. I'm a big fan of Les's more. I know it's fun to get like 30 movies in the same property, but typically you just see the coaster go down and never back up again. Devaluing the property is kind of a thing Disney's been doing across the board, not only with the MCU, but Star Wars we're seeing this. And I think it's just because they're burning all these shows out. It's like every week there's a new Marvel show or Star Wars, and they're trying to tie them into each other, and it's just too hard to keep track of. And again, if they were standalone, that's one thing, but these are all kind of married together, and it makes this ugly stew at the end where She-Hulk is part of the same universe now as I'm maybe Deadpool, I don't know, and the Marvels and Captain America, it's just too much. I don't care. And I've had this same conversation with so many people where I used to watch everything, I just can't keep up anymore. And it's compounded by every other, like every streaming service, every IP has so much stuff coming out. You can't keep up. Like people keep saying like, hey, Sean, are you gonna watch the boys? Hey, Sean, are you gonna watch Invincible? Like, I want to, I just only have so much time. Has the bubble burst? Probably not. Does it maybe need to shrink a little bit, dial it back, and make the ones that we make make them special and original? Yeah, yeah, that's what we gotta do. You can't turn it into Taco Bell. You can't make comic book movies, the chilies of movies. Make them special, make them fine. Chili's is delicious. Coming up with some new phrases here, yeah. You're there for it. The hierarchy of food is about to change. The Spider-Burst films, that's proof that original great comic book movies exist. And beyond the Spider-Burst, I think, is probably like gotta be up there for most anticipated upcoming. And I think that trilogy has just proven that animation is an untapped potential for the comic book movies, honor. Yeah, 100%. First, I want to say the utter disrespect for no one saying Madam Webb is disgusting. I mean, I think we can all agree that the Sony non-Spider-Man, Spider-Man universe is just phenomenal with Venom 1, Venom 2, Let There Be Garbage, and Morbius. Morbius? Yeah, it's Morbentime. It's Morbentime, baby. No, those movies are embarrassing, but I think, I'm kind of excited for Kick-Ass, the reboot that they're working on. Apologize to your mom. I didn't even know they were doing that. Now I'm excited. I don't, like, I look at it and I feel if they can course correct, if they can make the right changes, there's plenty of things to be excited for, because we love these characters. They've made great movies, but you can't, just because one worked doesn't mean you can put out three movies, five TV shows in one year, and keep up the quality, and that people just go, yeah, one scoop of ice cream's good. Let's eat 20. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You'll get sick of ice cream really fast. And so there you have it. Thank you guys so much for joining. Any final thoughts, Matt? Thanks for joining us. Madam Webb is out very soon, so get your tickets now. All right, guys, well, today we're gonna be talking about the state of the horror genre. If you don't know me, my name's Cody Leach. I have a horror YouTube channel. I do talk about all of the genres, but the sandbox of horror is where I play in the most. I got some YouTube friends. I got a buddy of mine from, you might recognize from some reality TV. We're gonna be talking about what made us a horror fan, why we continue to be a horror fan, what the state of horror is, what's exciting about it, as well as what's a little concerning for the future. So we'll try to have some fun. First off, we'll do some intros. Who are you? Why should we care what you have to say? My name is Sean Chandler. I have a YouTube channel called Sean Chandler. Talks about where I talk all things movies. And so, dive into- Can you speak up, Sean? Oh, sorry. My voice is completely shot. This is day four and we're talking to people leading panels. And so it sounds like I've been smoking for the last 50 years. But so I've been watching movies. My whole life, love watching movies. I'm in a household where my wife doesn't watch any horror. So that's what, when she goes to bed, the horror begins upstairs in my office, watching all sorts of wild, crazy stuff. And this way. Adam from Adam Does Movies, also a YouTube channel. I love all genres of film. Horror has a special place in my heart though. But, oh, someone's waving. Okay, yeah, I'm just excited to be here and talk film with you guys for the next 45 minutes. So let's make it happen. And last but loudest. What up, Megacon? My name is Joey Sasso. I am from Netflix's Circle Perfect Match. I'm also a filmmaker actor. But horror has always been my favorite genre. It's something I could talk about all day long. And it's something that today we are going to ask you your questions because we have a lot of hot takes and I know how some of them feel on some things. But I want to know what you guys are excited about coming up in 2024 for this calendar year for horror, baby. Awesome. I'll start off with myself. So my origin of being a horror fan goes all the way back to 1994, where I was four years old, walked into our apartment that we lived in. My father was watching a movie called Child's Play 3. Didn't know what the hell that was. I'm used to Disney movies and goofy movie and things. And I see this molten plastic and this title screen and just the words alone captivated me. Chucky immediately just made me a horror fan. Freddy catapulted it. Slasher's probably my favorite subgenre. But ever since four years old, that's just been my bread and butter. And especially when I was a kid, I think what drew me to it so much and why I held it so close to the chest all the way into my 30s was for the longest time, I don't know if most horror fans and even like heavy metal fans feel this way. It's kind of like this tight knit little group. And for the longest time, there was nobody, especially my age, that knew what the hell Chucky was, knew what horror was. And especially when I got on YouTube and found that there was so many of you that was like me, it was just like opening up to this whole new world and never even realized was there. Yeah, so I grew up with a mother that didn't watch horror movies at all, but she would go to get bed early. And TBS, TNT, they're always playing the Friday the 13th movies, in particular, New Blood. And maybe not my favorite anymore, but I just remember all these scenes of this girls like pulling down power lines, this guy popping up out of the water, grabbing Jason, pulling him under the water. And then the part where Jason does the circle saw the guy, just those iconic images, that was the origin of me watching horror movies right there. I was like, I gotta see what the rest of that is. And I remember not full blown horror, but watching Predator one night and being like, it's like the most tense thing I've ever seen. Like the one time a movie like made me tense. And I was like, I don't know, I'm gonna go to bed tonight. Like that thing might come and get me. That's kind of where it started for me. And then the way life has played out, my wife doesn't watch horror movies. So it continues to be that piece where once again, go to the internet to find other people and on that journey found Cody. Mr. Adam. We're an action household. My dad was big on Van Damme, Stallone, Schwarzenegger. Yes, yes. Thank you. He's very excited about that. So there was a lot of crossover with some of the horror elements. You have Predator, which I grew up with, the alien franchise. And from there, I just fell in love. And I remember watching Gremlins at Christmas back in the day when parents didn't really watch their kids, they just let them do whatever. So I'm seeing Gremlins get put in microwaves and stuff and I think to myself, this is where I want to be in life. And so I've fallen in love ever since. Awesome. Mr. Sasso. For me, it was Wes Craven, man. Nightmare on Elm Street. Then you start going down the list. I mean, do we all have those memories of being a kid watching something we should not be seeing at that age? When you're watching Scream, when it's coming out and everyone's talking about, you have to see this movie. And then in retrospect, you're like, oh, I got to live through essentially the 80s, meaning Halloween changed everything. We rolled into the 80s. We had all the ripoffs. 90s, we had Scream. Then we had all the ripoffs, Urban Legend, Valentine. All of which are still fantastic because I love ripoff horror. I think it's so much fun when you have a hit and then you see what it does for the genre for the next 10 years. But for me, it became a thing of seeking out filmmakers and seeing every single thing that they had done in their career, which at that time, Blockbuster, for those of us who remember, only carried certain titles. So it became a thing of how am I gonna find Last House on the Left? I keep hearing about this, but there is nowhere to find it. There was something about being a horror fan in that time where everything was not accessible that made it even more fun. And yes, if you met people like ourselves and they were on the same wavelength, it made things that much more fun. I think that there are many things to be excited about. I think there's gonna be a lot of filmmakers who are transitioning to horror because the Jordan peels of the world have shown you can make a real film and audiences will show up for it. I think the most exciting thing for me is that, despite the fact that I'm with you on a lot of loving franchises keepin' going, I mean, one of my favorites is Chucky, it's still going. It's still the same continuity, same creative team, for better or worse, and maybe some worse. But you have, what's exciting is there's so much unpredictability with what is coming. Like I know January 1st when we kick off a new year, my favorite horror films of the year, I don't even know about them yet. X, Barbarian from 2022. Had no idea what the hell those were until I walked into the theater and sat down, ended up being in my top five. Barbarian was trash though. Oh, wow. Wait, what? Anybody wanna replace this scene? What? He hated that movie. Okay, why? I just need to know why. It made no sense. There's a lady living underground, somehow a sustaining life, and then she falls off a water tower, spins in the air, holds onto the wood. Spoilers, spoilers. It's just a comical movie that, if you even think about it for half a second, doesn't add up, so. But I was with it for the first half hour, but then it just goes into Looney Tunes' world, and I'm gone. That's why it's awesome. Yeah, I know, some people like that. I love that the whole point of the movie is the Barbarian is just and long. That's really what it's down to, is he's the monster. I have a thousand things to push back on, but we don't have time for it. I'll send you my review afterwards. I'm down for it, down for it. How many of you love when you walk in and just go blind? Yes. Yeah, I'm telling you, like Sinister was the movie, this is years ago, Sinister was the movie that broke that for me. It's like, here's the whole movie in two minutes, and every surprise ruined. Ever since then, I've made it a practice, unless it's something like Halloween, and I feel like contractually obligated to watch the fucking trailer, but anything that seems interesting, if they just tell me the premise, and I know I'm gonna buy it, walk in blind. I cannot, one of my most vivid movie memories is hearing about this little movie called Hostel in the halls of my high school. I'm like, what is that? Okay, new horror film, drag my dad to go see it. First 20 minutes, he's like, what is this porno that you brought me to? And then Achilles' heel gets cut, and we're like, oh, what the fuck? What happened? And so those are the best. How old were you? 16. Okay, I saw when I was 13, yeah. What a baby. I had a dad who was also very supportive of my love of the genre. Yes, absolutely. So I know you're a little bit more pessimistic about what's going on currently, and a lot of the franchise churning out, what's the thing that excites you the most right now about what's happening in horror? Like what you wanna see more of? I mean, to your point, I do appreciate that Barbarian was different. And again, I really like Jordan Peele and how he does do the elevated horror, but it still is scary. It reminded me of Jaws when I saw Nope the first time, which I consider Jaws a great horror film as well. So even though there is like the big movie franchises, we still do get a Thanksgiving from Eli Roth that I thought was fantastic. We'll probably turn into the next, you know, it should have been called, I know what you did last Thanksgiving. It was such a love to 90s horror and that's what made me happy about it. Exactly. And we were talking a little bit beforehand. It's kind of interesting, especially from our perspective, where like last year almost seems like the kickoff of like Rise of the Horror YouTuber creator. Yeah. Talk to me guys, making an awesome movie. Talk to me was fantastic. It should have been called Talk to the Hand though. I still can't get over other things called Talk to the Hand. Adam, you kind of alluded to it a bit whenever we were talking about our optimism, but like is there something specific, a trend or even just a trope of horror that just you don't want anymore? Trope, not so much. I think that those exist for a reason because people do enjoy them at the end of the day. You like to be scared and even if it means it's an obnoxious loud noise that's doing it or it's the cat, it's always a cat jumping out of something. I do really get annoyed by the Mr. X in a lot of A24 movies especially. They seem to be the biggest kind of a bad guy when it comes to, they pick up a lot of properties that have nothing to do with horror but then they kind of advertise them like they're horror lamb for instance. I was like what am I watching here? There's nothing scary going on. Then you have Men which I saw last year and I was just so miserable watching a movie about a guy like giving birth to multiple versions of himself. Like this is not horror but it kind of is I guess to be fair. Impossible movie to discuss too because no matter what you say you're wrong. But my classic example for that version of A24 is a movie called It Comes at Night. My wife was flicking through Netflix and she's like what's this? It seems interesting. I was like ugh and she goes so what comes at night? Nothing, absolutely nothing comes at night. Exploiting copyright to put a superficial IP skin on your crappy slasher. Public domain. Public domain universe. So Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey where you've got a bad slasher and you put an even worse, Winnie the Pooh skin on it and there's nothing to do with the lore. Really, there's nothing. It doesn't capture the Winnie banter, the energy, the characters. It's just that's supposedly Winnie the Pooh but it kills people. Adam is there a property that you're just done with? Just seeing a trailer announcement just gonna hurt your soul? You know I'm a little bit more of a bitch I think than everybody else here. When a movie franchise starts to lose me I just walk away. So there's a lot of horror movies where I'm like I don't need to see Jason in space, I don't need to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John winking on a bus. There's just a lot of things that I just, I walk, there's so many good movies out there that I don't need to like have this blind allegiance to a lot of properties. So no, I don't think there's one, there's like a hundred that I just don't need to see anymore of. I think you just need to let Halloween sit. Like just let it sit for a while. I'm not saying never return but let's take a break. How dare you Sean? I think the Halloween, the simplicity of it, it's not really designed to have over 10 movies in the franchise. It's a very simple concept and that's why we kind of keep going, have like four different timelines, Rob Zombie reboot. It's so much fun though. I feel like where they missed it was if they could have this time done the Halloween three thing right and used Halloween 22 to launch off kind of this spin off anthology version. You do Halloween ends not as kind of Christine kind of the end of a sock trilogy but you do it as like its own spin off in the universe that's inspired by that doesn't have Michael Myers. I think people respond a lot better to it because it's not trying to be two things at once. The final showdown for the 11th time between Laurie and Michael and setting up this other guy but they didn't do that and so I think they had the potential to create the one that has longevity but as is the simple like how many times can he return? Yeah. Isn't the fun of you guys running YouTube like I don't know if we're all going to if we're all going to see a movie. He hated Barbarian, I loved it. I love having those conversations. I'm like fuck you as a person you're terrible. Let's have a conversation. That's kind of fun. That's why Siskel and Ebert were like the greatest movie critics. You could listen to them get paid for hours. The worst thing that can happen in my opinion is someone who makes films trying to make movies is you watch my movie and you go it's fine. It was a movie. It was a movie. Like most of 2023. So piggyback on that. So we were at Fantastic Fest back in September and it's absolutely true. You like to think that we're just talking to fans and the studio executives don't see our stuff. We're sitting down and like a little backstory. Halloween 2018 I gave it three and a half out of five. I got I got dragged across for months for months. It was the grossest era of my channel. We're sitting down on the curb. This guy walks up he goes, hey, I'm an intern over at Blumhouse and we think you have the most interesting takes. And I was like, can you say that into the camera please? It was so funny. But anyway, piggyback when he was saying some of my favorite conversations to have with people is when I could not disagree more with them. It's interesting to me. There's nothing really interesting about, I totally agree. Right, okay, well that's it. Like we were doing a live stream either end of October beginning of November, we were talking about SawX which I already knew we both loved and Exorcist believer which he had yet to watch. And I hated it. And I was like, I don't necessarily want you to love it because I'm gonna be really concerned about what your movie taste is. But I kind of hope you'll love it because it's gonna be an interesting conversation. And he's like, I kind of hope I do too. On that note guys, that's gonna be it for us. Thank you so much for attending. Thank you for another awesome year at Megacon. This is our last panel. Yeah, please make some noise for horror. Yeah! We're gonna grab a selfie after this. If everyone wants to gather in the middle, we're gonna be down here just a second. Sean will be over here for some meet and greets for a while. All the rest of us peasants without a table will be over here. Thanks guys. 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