Challenging, liberating therapy sessions have been, at times, vital to my existing as a person in the world, but I imagine it's much harder to find a good therapist – and it's already so hard – when you're Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street or something. Like, what are you supposed to say? "I'm a dream demon that wears a fedora, let me tell you what I think about my mom"?
In the spirit of sharing our true feelings, I'll just come out and say it: I love them, my free time revolves around them, but horror movies require its protagonists to be unmedicated and bad at risk-assessment in order to work. That's why I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson acknowledges in a new interview with Vanity Fair that the slasher film probably wouldn't exist at all if guys just went to therapy.
