Andrew Grevas

Author & journalist covering horror, cult cinema & strange television. Oral histories, deep dives & filmmaker interviews. Author of Horror in Haddonfield.

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My book, “Horror in Haddonfield” was published by @fmpbooks & distributed by @simonschuster. It can be found at: https://t.co/A4Z44VQTyw.

Website: https://t.co/wOR0gAINiA
Contact: [email protected]

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Voting wraps up Thursday. If you haven’t voted yet or haven’t received a ballot, send me a DM today!

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"Finally. Saturday, November 10th. Find out who killed Laura Palmer. Really." TWIN PEAKS (1990)

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Over the last week, I’ve been writing my first short story in years. Writing fiction is something I’m very out of practice with but I’m enjoying the experience. If it winds up being any good, I’ll share it somewhere. If it’s not good, it’s been a fun exercise.

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@robot_rock Exactly. Those are the players we need to be aggressive for

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Fuck those picks, go win a ‘ship #Bengals

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@0Mau2 @willie_lutz @SigmundBloom @nickkorte You're going ALL-IN and saying fuck those picks

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Just got my author copy. Had a slight delay but the silver lining is I get to officially drop it this Friday the 13th. I Can't wait 🎃

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@JoeGoodberry Seeing a lot of other reports saying that they don’t lose the pick. If they do, then it’s too much to pay for a rotational player. If they don’t lose the pick, then giving up a 6th is tremendous value for the playoff push.

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Voting wraps up Thursday. If you haven’t voted yet or haven’t received a ballot, send me a DM today!

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If you’re a podcaster, YouTuber or writer who has seen every Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th & Scream film, do me a favor & comment “Me!”.

I’m working on something.

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@AshXAshes WHO DEY!

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I tried to DM everyone who responded but if I missed you or your DMs are closed, message me. Project is underway!

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If you’re a podcaster, YouTuber or writer who has seen every Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th & Scream film, do me a favor & comment “Me!”.

I’m working on something.

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After not showing anyone my work on Book 2, I got my first set of notes this week.

Lines like “this feels so definitive and right” - among other compliments- backup my gut feeling that this book has the potential to be special. I’m excited for people to get their hands on it next year.

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@DiscussingFilm Death penalty?

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I took a day to respond, but this bothers me. My son is active Navy & his ship deployed at the end of March. He’s over there, fighting a war that the sitting Vice President chalks up to being “bad for his party politically”. People have died over there. This tweet makes the loss of life & sacrifices being made by our troops seem secondary to how a political party performed. This was a war only your administration asked for Mr. Vice President. Americans weren’t asking for it. Our sons and daughters weren’t asking to be deployed into the least popular war since Vietnam. Maybe you start by bringing them home before you minimize them in an attempt to save face after your party performed poorly in the midterms.

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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

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@anthonydapuzzo @KeepItFrankLive It’s a fun way to write a film. That style of writing is why I’m so defensive over the first 3 Scream films & 5. They absolutely nailed it in those 4 films, in my opinion.

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There are 3 paths slasher franchises can walk: Protagonist lead (Scream), antagonist lead (Friday the 13th) or blended (Halloween & Elm Street). Personally, I’m drawn to the blended path. You don’t have to have Laurie/Jamie or Nancy/Alice to have a Halloween or Elm Street film, but if they’re there, you know it’s going to be special. Being protagonist or antagonist lead does inherently make the films more formulaic & procedural- like a horror version of Law & Order, but a lot of people resonate with that. It’s all subjective at the end of the day. Some people just want to be entertained for 90 minutes & not get too deep with it. (We are clearly not those people, but they exist)

But to address the original topic, I do think it’s Sidney’s franchise & not Ghostface’s. The narrative is always built around the heroine in the Scream films - even 5&6. Elm Street pivoted to writing around Freddy in Part 4. Halloween walked the line really closely in most films to nurture the balance. But Scream utilizes the Ghostface construct to amplify the heroine’s narrative and not the other way around.

Fun conversation- sorry for the butt in!

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@ScreamQueen514 @EVILSCRE4M @MattEmert & @realtimmurdock you’re all four Constitutionally bound to participate in this. I don’t make the rules. (Oh wait I do!)

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If you’re a podcaster, YouTuber or writer who has seen every Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th & Scream film, do me a favor & comment “Me!”.

I’m working on something.

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I’ll be reaching out to everyone who responded soon. Thanks!

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If you’re a podcaster, YouTuber or writer who has seen every Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th & Scream film, do me a favor & comment “Me!”.

I’m working on something.