Transcription (en)

I love these movies. I grew up watching them. I rented them from the video store from like age 10. And I think like it's a rare fan of like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, maybe Halloween a little bit less, but like if you love one of those movies, you're in for the full set, right? And like part of the joy is the compounding sequels and remakes and kind of hating on them. But then like reclaiming Jason takes Manhattan because how crazy it is that he doesn't actually get to Manhattan until the last 20 minutes. That's the point, it's like the franchise and the franchise and all of its sort of like excess and weird left turns becomes the thing that's fun to dig into. If it comes across as like loving and reverential as much as it's referential, it's because I just grew up being a nerd for that stuff and in a way that I think is authentic and I still hold that. The movie has a lot to say about the ways in which gender, sexuality, politics, power dynamics play out in those movies, both on camera and off camera, but not in such a straightforward way as like a moralizing finger wag.