James Wan launched multiple horror franchises: not only Saw but also Insidious & The Conjuring.

there are multiple Horrible Bosses

Fantastic Mr. Fox cannot share a universe with any Wes Anderson movie not adapted from the works of Roald Dahl.

I would say Gunn’s position of responsibility indicates he won’t be taking the route of Scorsese.

The duo, along with Alexander Woo, spearheads

I have it off this year, and I don’t even live in Texas!

This purports to have the inside perspective on why they left the Star Wars project:

It is, but something like The Children’s Hour wouldn’t be relevant to a slasher movie.

Wasn’t The Waldo Moment originally a Nathan Barley episode?

An inverted slasher like Revenge can retain the lone survivor, and I recall The Ranger keeping most of the tropes (except that the titular Ranger uses guns rather than focusing on slashing) including that, but the self-aware slasher movies are less likely to. I only watched the original Scream, but I know that…

I was aware of Don Mancini pushing Hannibal in that direction, in a third season so bad it retroactively lowered my opinion of the writers of the preceding seasons.

Yes, the actual reason to do so would be to generate a Seinfeldian bit about clashing norms for interaction. “Some people are huggers, Jerry” “Fine for those people, let the huggers hug other huggers, and leave me out of it!”

That would be Jodie Foster, as Nell Tiger Free wouldn’t be born until years after that was released.

I’ve never seen any of the Chucky/Child’s Play movies, so I was unaware of that example.

Zulawski’s Possession includes some minor gay characters, but it’s not a slasher where the antagonist is seeking out people to kill.

Servant’s Tiger Free

I’m going to use this as an excuse to complain about an entirely different movie: A few years ago in “Freaky” one of the supporting characters had the trailer-ready line “You’re black, I’m gay, we’re so dead”. The first part reflected an actual tendency in slasher films of the 80s/90s to start including a token black…

One of the things I hated about Community.

Yeah, my impression is that there was a male default in most writing so it was “himself”, then an attempt to include females with “him or herself”, but saying three words instead of one is annoying so more recently it’s shifted away from that.

Chloe Zhao went from winning Best Picture/Director with Nomadland to the disappointing Eternals (I haven’t seen it, just what I’ve heard) and is now supposed to be making “Hamnet” with recent nominees Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal, so it does seem possible for a director to follow Elizabeth Olsen’s advice to “just give…