Thruline Rejection

So... on Febraury 12th I got the following message from Thruline Entertainment via GreenlightMymovie:


"Dear Erik Harshman,

Thank you for allowing us to review and consider your project "Personal
Demons".

Please find our response below.

Response: This is a pass for us, because; Not right for our company.

Comment: Thank you for sending, there is something here for sure, just not
right for us .

Best Regards,
THRULINE ENTERTAINMENT"

 Which is funny because on their VIP Profile on GMM it says that they are looking for "Horror, Sci-fi and thriller".
Note that they say they are only looking for projects in three genres, all of which are cut from the same cloth and that they put "horror" first.
Huh...
Interesting.
Perhaps they should change their list of interests and wants.

Or, and I think this is more likely, a lot of agents/producers/managers (who aren't really interested in genre projects... unless they're the start of a new and lucrative popular franchise or unless they are artsy, award-winning singular mega-hits) put "horror" in their list of wants, hoping to find the next Scream, Conjuring, Exorcist, Hereditary, Jaws, etc.
But, see, you need to be willing to take risks... on a project that doesn't sound like a hit (I bet Nightmare on Elm Street and Evil Dead didn't sound like great prospects at first either... but look at how much money they've made since)... on writers that aren't known (or "internet famous")...

I don't know.

What I do know, though, is that I'm about to watch a movie I've wanted to see for a while now, called A Christmas Horror Story. It's a horror anthology about Christmas (duh!) and it has a segment in it about Krampus. Now, this film came out before Michael Dougherty's Krampus made the German legend a household name. Anyhow, the movie is very prominently made by eOne (Entertainment One)... who just rejected my video pitch for Personal Demons because it "wasn't right for [their] company".
So... a horror anthology about a German Christmas demon is right for your company... but not an extremely marketable 80's-inspired horror film about teenagers battling a demon... Have they seen Stranger Things or 2017's It?
Do they know that stories in this particular vein are hot right now...?
Guess not.
Whatever.
Their loss.