A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, '70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, '90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they're good, and maybe even more when they're bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed "Canuxploitation."
An expert on Marvel Comics, he has also written for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and is a member of the Marvel Research Team. He can frequently be found pontificating on comic-book continuity or bemoaning the misfortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs on his Twitter account.
The small-screen stars are out tonight for the Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC and Peacock. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Mariska Hargitay is on the case as tonight's host, and the awards are being handed out as we speak. The Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series went to Stephen Root for his performance in Widow's Bay. It is his 2nd nomination and 1st win.
Root was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for playing Monroe Fuchs, the handler of the titular reluctant hitman, on HBO's Barry. Root is a TV veteran, dating back to his 1990s roles as eccentric tycoon Jimmy James on Newsradioand the hapless Bill Dauterive on King of the Hill. On Widow's Bay, he plays Wyck Crawford, a longtime resident of Widow's Bay who has earned a reputation as a local kook for his vocal belief in the town's curses; however, when those curses turn out to be true, the town's mayor turns to him for guidance. It's the second of two major wins for the rookie series so far, as co-star Kate O'Flynn won for her supporting turn as Patricia Moyer.
Apple TV dominated the category this year, with four nominations, including Root: Harrison Ford and Michael Urie for the dramedy Shrinking, in its acclaimed third season, and newcomer Nick Offerman for Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Also in the running were Colman Domingo for Netflix's The Four Seasons and Paul W. Downs for Hacks. The sole network TV representative in the category was Tyler James Williams, for ABC's Abbott Elementary.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival QuizWhich Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
QUESTION 1 / 8INSTINCT
01
Something feels wrong. You can't explain it — you just know. What do you do?First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
QUESTION 2 / 8ENVIRONMENT
02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong?Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
QUESTION 3 / 8STRENGTH
03
What is your most reliable survival asset?Every survivor has a quality the villain didn't account for. What's yours?
QUESTION 4 / 8FEAR
04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through?Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
QUESTION 5 / 8GROUP
05
You're with a group when things start going wrong. What's your role?Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn't.
QUESTION 6 / 8MISTAKE
06
What's the horror movie mistake you're most likely to make?Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
QUESTION 7 / 8ADVANTAGE
07
What's your best weapon against something that can't be stopped by conventional means?Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
QUESTION 8 / 8FINAL SCENE
08
It's the final scene. You're the last one standing. How did you make it?The final survivor always has a reason. What's yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been CalculatedYour Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn't strategise, doesn't adapt, doesn't outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it's too late for anyone who isn't paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael's power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You've faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven't looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy's greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn't survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise's worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child's Play
Chucky
Chucky's greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it's already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don't have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than alm