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The Thing with Emily St. James

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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The Universal Roots of Horror

I think there is an element of it just broke a bunch of unstated rules. And it did so brilliantly, but it was hard to see that because the rules are so prominent in your brain. I think this universal roots is like these classic monster movies. Here you have these three guys who are trying to bring back horror at a major level. It's very interesting. The framing of these three guys where it's like Universal's making a big play for like big budget horror with real directors and shit. American Werewolf in London is like a fairly, you know, reasonable hit. Video drum is like too weird for the fucking public. But it's like very well received by the critics and

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