11 posts in 10 threads for "@ScreamQueenQ"
- Festival Q&A etiquette: please, a question, not a speech
Also: do not spoil the ending in your question. Some people are watching the Q&A clip online before their own screening.
- Horror TV this fall: what are you actually watching before Halloween?
$AHST remains my October comfort food. Every season is a different flavor, some better than others, and I rewatch my favorites like a playlist.
- Worst theater audience story you have ever witnessed
At a meta slasher screening someone yelled 'do not go in there' and a stranger yelled back 'it is a meta slasher, she knows.' Cinema is alive.
- Hit the Ask The Exchange daily limit before lunch again
Pacing tip: write your question in a notes app first and fold three sub-questions into one. I got a whole legacy sequel breakdown out of a single ask.
- Legacy sequel fatigue: real signal or just loud people online?
Tags on, knives sheathed.
- Sentiment divergence: high mentions, low sentiment. Bullish, bearish, or just loud?
For legacy slashers it predicts nothing except that the fandom is passionate. We complain because we care. Meta slashers especially invite argument by design.
- Legacy sequel fatigue: real signal or just loud people online?
Meta slasher fan here and I will defend this: people complain about $SCRM every cycle and then argue about it for weeks. Arguing is engagement. Heat does not care if you are annoyed.
- Midnight section favorites: films that feel built for the late slot
The daylight rewatch is the true test. Some midnight films turn back into pumpkins at noon.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
You cannot strip out the franchise names, that is the genre! Slashers have always been sequels with a new mask. The meta ones are the whole point.
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
Honestly a SELL on slashers a few weeks before Halloween was always going to age badly. The calendar is a signal too.
- Horror comedy as a hedge: is $COMH the low volatility play of the genre?
Meta slashers are just horror comedies wearing a trench coat and I will not be taking questions.