That "Make Your Own Horror Short" contest is the most scummy thing a big Hollywood studio has done in at least a week.

Okay, seriously - my wife reads contracts for a living and it's important to note that the reference to "entrant" is not hinged on the winner, it's hinged on who actually enters the contest. They can do this to anyone who enters - the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc person in this contest. Protect yourself, protect your idea. Don't do this.

So much evil in that contract, they should make a horror movie about it.

War for the Planet of the Apes - 0:56 Atomic Blonde - 1:10 Dunkirk - 1:20 The Dark Tower - 1:26 The Emoji Movie - 1:33 Annabelle Creation - 2:00 Lights Out - 4:45 I hope this was helpful!

"The emoji movie looked so terrible I willingly gave sony my money so I could exaggerate my outrage in a youtube video" God bless this fucking channel

There's nothing better than Mike badly mis-remembering horror movies.

Hey guys, great video as usual. I can help shed a little light on the way the Annabelle: Creation embargo worked. The film was first shown at the Los Angeles film festival on June 19th 2017. There is no embargo at film festivals, so any critic who saw the film there would be free to post their reviews early to Rotten Tomatoes. Those would account for the initial reviews. The film was then screened again at San Diego comic con for fans and press, and this is where I saw it since I was already in town for SDCC. The embargo had already lifted at that point and there was no second embargo to my knowledge. There were however more screenings after the Los Angeles Film Festival and Comic Con, which would account for the influx of reviews after that. As for the studios interacting with critics after the screening, that rarely happens for me in Ohio, in fact basically never. Can't say the same for LA/NY people. At comic con, they handed out a swag bag to people who saw Annabelle: Creation. In it was Blu-Rays for The Conjuring and Annabelle 1, and a hat for Stephen King's IT. I gave all these items away to people I met there because I already own The Conjuring and I fucking hated Annabelle 1. I hope that sheds light on some of the questions you had, guys. Keep making great videos, RLM is my favorite channel. Edit: No one received an Annabelle doll for free. I bought mine off Amazon to use in the review because I wanted to make it look like she moved during filming.

The best thing about these Hollywood horror movies is the 40-minute reviews that are mostly Jay and Mike trying to remember which movie they're reviewing.

"So they prayed to Jesus, 'Can we have our daughter back?' And when that didn't work they switched to the black arts." Best RLM quote since "Shaq Meat."

It would be great if David F. Sandberg could show up as a "guest of the worst" sometime in the future. Who knows if he is ever able to talk about any of this, but i feel like there is a interesting untold backstory here.

Lights Out, Don't Breathe, and Hush have now been joined by A Quiet Place, Bird Box, and The Silence

Half in the Bag Semi in the Sack Partial in the Tote Some in the Satchel Quarter in the Clutch

the contest is disgusting. Thanks for showing why reading the fine print and contest rules are important.

I thought they were going to zoom in on Chris Stuckmann's face when they were showing the Rotten Tomatoes reviews.

the editing in of Gizmo at 7:30 was so damn funny

It's been several years since the contest, so I decided to look it up. The winner was Julian Terry. It seems that never went anywhere, but he had like three other short films picked up by other studios for features. Though none seem to have developed. =\

"None of it felt like little girl speak." - Mike Stoklasa; Little Girl Expert

Fun fact! Annabelle: Creation was the last movie I saw before I died and became a spooky internet ghost. Now I can spend all of eternity watching KZfaq videos!

This is similar the Fred Durst's challenge when he was looking for a new guitarist. You had to audition with an original song/idea and Fred would retain all right, just for letting you audition. I know this is a late comment...but I thought the similarity was worth noting

I love how the movie is so boring they literally talk about anything else for most of the video.

I've worked in the movie industry for 25 years, not one syllable of that contract surprised me.

I was in absolute fucking shock when Mike read out the contest contract. That's the most genuinely awful, corporate thing I've ever heard. Imagine being the guy who wins, and then having WB take your idea from YOUR hard work for $50. Bull fucking horse shit.

Triggered by the missed Spooky count at 34:44

The contract for the contest looks scarier than this schlock. Shit make a horror film about a studio that steals people's stories and slowly drives them mad by picking their lives apart until they kill themselves and then make a movie about it. There, an original idea. Can I have some money

This was the last movie my grandpa saw before he died because I forced him to watch it on loop until he overdosed on heart medication.

Man it is sad to see that Rich Evans passed away, the Tums were just too much. Maybe when they do an autopsy and find his calcified liver, RLM can make a horror short of it. Then when they win their 50$, Rich Evans will be forever canon in The Conjuring universe. That is just what Rich Evans would of wanted.

The zoom in on Chris Stuchmann cracked me up, especially with his recent content

Poor David Sanburg. To be fair he's got a couple of really good gigs from making a short in his house. I watch his tutorials all the time and helps immensely. I think his individual work is great and one day i'd love to see a film he has full creative control over like his shorts.

I'm gonna enter that contest, win that $50 and use it to buy that T-Shirt

"Annabelle Creation is the Citizen Kane of prequels to prequel sequels. I give it an A+"- Meme Stuckmann

50 bucks is 50 bucks. See you nerds in Hollywood!

My grandfather died back in 2005. The last movie he saw was Spider-Man 2 and he loved it.

Horror movie idea: Writer turns into an electric ghost after getting ripped off by a major studio

what if someone's 'Make Your Own Horror Short' was a submission about an indie director who entered a film making contest hosted by a major studio, wins the contest, flies out to meet with execs from the major studio, but then disappears under mysterious circumstances? then the studio premiers the indie director's film as their own IP, during which spooky stuff happens, attributed to the ghost of the indie director?

Simply put studios are blaming critics for people not watching terrible movies. That's actually one of the main reasons why critics exist. Good job critics, good job people for listening. But the rotten tomatoes score just isn't saying much.

I would have loved to see a "You're the best around" montage of the father and mother praying to any deity or power they can find. Benny tried the same tactic in The Mummy and it actually worked for him.

Annabelle: Creation? What's next? Annabelle: Resurrection? What's next? Annabelle: Correction? What's next? Annabelle: Ramification? What's next? Annabelle: Inflation? What's next? Annabelle: Gratification?

You missed counting Jay's last "Spooky" when he's talking about the movie being released around Halloween.

50 doll hairs

Link to the over exaggerated review of emoji movie doesn't work guys......

"The Emoji Movie looked so terrible I gave Sony my money to exaggerate my outrage in a KZfaq video." FUCKING *THANK YOU* FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

Jay: "What did you think of The Dark Tower?" Mike: "It was only 90 minutes long!" Perfection xD .

Thanks for the shout out to my Arkansas Democrat-Gazette review! I appreciate you guys representing my call accurately. Rotten Tomatoes is useful, but you do have to read the totals carefully and to look at what's actually in the reviews. The early reviews for this one were really strange. I didn't recognize any familiar bylines. Sometimes that's good because it takes outsiders to appreciate a film, but it still bothered me that these reviews were there so far in advance of the critics screenings.

this is why RedLetterMedia is my favourite channel on KZfaq

This contest reminds me of some of the sketchy Nintendo Power contests from back in the day.

Wait you're not going to review Dunkirk? Now what will I tell people what I thought about the movie?!?!

I love Jay's face when he is trying not to laugh at Mike's antics. Priceless. It is looks like he is going to explode from laughter at any moment and you wonder if he'll keep his cool or start giggle like a school girl.

Sid Haig menacingly reading that WB contract would've been a more frightening horror film than Annabelle Creation.

If I wanted a spooky count, I'd watch Dracula, you frauds!

I do like Sandberg and think he knows how to craft atmosphere and tension under the right circumstances. Basically, I think he knows how to work with minimalism and the "less is more" mentality of scariness. Give him a script that leans into those strengths with a decent scary story that's smaller and more intimate in scale, instead of a dumb, blunt plot about Annebelle.

Just want to come back and say that Mike and Jay predicted The Exorcist: Believer 😆

A lot of the time I just listen to these videos in the background, so I miss a lot of the edits you guys make. Gizmo being edited into Lights Out was great.

someone make a short where the demon ghost monster is a $50 bill plz

Rotten Tomatoes is an incredibly simple system and I'm still baffled that people don't get it. Every reviewer and review is boiled down to a yes or a no. Do they recommend the movie yes or no. That's why you have two reviews that are 3/5 and one's a tomato and one's a splat. Read the wording of the reviews, both said the movie was average (3/5) but one said it was fine and the other said it wasn't worth watching. One yes, one no. Those yes and no reviews then get averaged into the score for the movie. An 18% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't mean that the quality of the movie is that of an 18/100, it's saying that 18% of the people who watched it would recommend it.

I'm half Irish and half Jewish, so... I'm drinking if you're buying

I love how the word "Exploitation" is found in the fine print of the contest rules. Haha

Dammit I will keep clicking there until it redirects me.... I WILL see Jay vs the emoji movie.

I'm taking an emoji movie right now

34:35 YOU FORGOT ONE YOU HACKS!!!!

Did anyone read David F Sandberg's last twitter comment? He say's he's too busy to answer anymore tweets for the moment. Dated 17 Aug 2017. One day after this review? Ha Ha Ha!

Fifty. US. Dollars.

At the theater I used to work at, one part of the building had a ~120 person, ~100 person, and a ~70 person auditorium. Movies naturally cycled down after the weeks, except when no one was buying tickets. The Dark Tower, along with the most recent King Arthur movie, are the fastest that I've seen a movie go to the small theater.

"Lights out, don't breathe, and hush." - Mr. Plinkett

I love how they just didn't bother to review Dunkirk.

11:53 zoom in on Chris stuckmann hahahaha never noticed that before you guys are catty

I went to the prerelease screening of Anabelle Creation, afterwards the studio executives gave me a swag bag but it was filled with Rich Evan's poop. I gave the movie 100%

"woman gets electro shock therapy and gains electricity powers" I'd watch that

50 dollars, while the big corporation takes your idea and makes millions. jesus christ

That cut away to Gizmo and the bright light was hilarious

I swear, these days I do actually get swayed to go to the movies because of air conditioning.

The review embargo reminds me of what Warner Brothers did to "Shadow of Mordor." WB would only send out review copies to anyone who signed a contract to give it favorable reviews.

*I SWEAR THE FUCK!*

The film had its world premiere back in June at the LA Film Festival, which is what Lights Out did last year. All the critics who saw and glowed about the film early were mostly from that initial screening. And WB was actually very confident in the film, as they screened the film two to three weeks in advance in several areas, my area included. They even had a nationwide promotional screening collaboration with AMC Theaters where they screened the film to AMC Stubs members over a week in advance. This took place in at least 50 locations. I believe WB did the same type of deal with Regal Cinemas that same night as well for their Regal Crown Club members, so add another 50 locations to that. Hope that answers any sort of questions you guys might have.

The contract actually said "exploitation"? Holy shit!

the face that jay makes when he's holding in his laughter at the very in kills me.

7:43 I also seem to remember that Yoda was dancing in front of a fire in that movie.

This contest makes me sick to my stomach.

As an artist who has been making money on his art work and his photos as a second job for a decade, i can say its kinda normal for whoever runs a contest to basically own the rights to your work... it sucks. Its bull shit. Its the reason i always tell people to avoid contests like this. I have seen game studios ask for artwork in a contest that basically say "we own the rights to it, and if you win you get the prize and nothing else." Like, its sleezy what WB is doing here... but its no more sleezy then i have seen before. That being said usually the contests i see for artists and concept artists and photographers have prizes in the thousands of dollars... that 50+50 dollar grand prize is fucking insane!

“When is this Annabelle doll gonna start offing these orphans”

This channel makes me wanna watch more movies just to come here and watch the corresponding video. Yall are funny as hecc.

I like these Half in the Bag episodes that delve into more than just reviews. Really interesting insights.

Quite possibly my favorite half in the bag so far! Keep up the great work

I know this is four years ago but I those gizmo inserts in the lights out montage just killed me dead

The transition shot at 2:04 is the best I have ever seen. I can't stop laughing for some reason. I love this channel!

Spooky counter missed a spooky. Literally unwatchable.

Can I just cut Mike reading the outline of this stellar contest and submit that as my 2 minute horror movie?

Love the spooky (TM) music that played during the reading of the devil's contract.

This is the video that made me a half in the bag fan and my life has been reunited ever since

15:48 made me excited thinking my favourite man with a pineapple haircut was doing a collab with RLM :(

I love how they skipped over all of the major releases of the summer and instead focused on a film I didn't even know existed until this video. Classic RLM.

I love it when you guys have random pictures of Rich in your videos. You always choose shots where he looks so gormless. Bless you, Rich :-)

Glad to see you guys back

Baby Driver's initial RottenTomatoes score is 100%, drops to 94% after release. Anabelle Creation starts at 100%, drops to 68%. Uh oh.

Nothing is more spooky that a shady contract.

Nice to come back to this bit at 15:32 during the WGA/SAG-SFTRA strike, and be reminded that the studios have always been like this.

Also, plot twist, it turns out the original Annabelle was actually just a really passive-aggressive roommate sick of everyone not cleaning their hair out of the shower.

If you entered the contest: I live in LA; it's nae that great. Violent homeless people roam the streets; gangs mug you at every stop light; it's all hotter than the deepest pit of Hell. Even the beach has heroin needles in the sand, or nappies floating in the ocean. Save your vacation time: go see the world's largest ball of twine instead.

I had a professor in college who offered to "help" anyone who had an idea for a screenplay. He gave off the same vibe as that contest.

Just found this channel and Mike and Jay need to host every video. I have 129 episodes to enjoy before the next installment.

I love you people! Thanks for the laughs. *hugs*