Rejection... Faster than a speeding bullet!

So... I just got rejections nearly immediately from Scott Free and Intrepid Pictures...

Here they are:


"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: Significant thematic and narrative overlaps to STRANGER THINGS .

Best Regards,
SCOTT FREE"

And the other...

"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: Interesting pitch, but not the kind of horror movie we're looking
to make. .

Best Regards,
INTREPID PICTURES"

A few thoughts here...

First, is that I think the companies (if indeed it is companies sending these responses) simply choose their response from a drop down menu of pre-written responses (hence why I always get the same line from every company/agent).
Second,  Intrepid's response, well, I get that. Whatever. It's their preference. Not my place to say one way or the other. But Scott Free's response? Well, is the cross-pollination between my project (which, incidentally, was written in 2015... a whole year before Stranger Things debuted) and Stranger Things a good thing or a bad thing? A selling point, or does it make it too derrivative?
I dunno.
And my third and final thought: I've wondered for a while now if GMM is really sending people's video pitches to production companies, producers and agents and then acting as a buffer and/or liaison in communicating back and forth (which would make sense, as GMM is owned by the screenwriters magazine in Hollywood and they do put on the pitchfest in Hollywood, it would make sense that they have contacts to all these places), or if they are simply telling the unknown writers using their site that they are acting a liaison and just feeding them responses (i.e. rejections) in order to get their money and give them the illusion of submitting to the Hollywood elite VIPs.
Of course, what if people actually get a positive response?
But, then, I haven't gotten one of those yet.
Now, the site boasts that people have had success through their site, but those stories could indeed be fabricated. Who knows.
But, then, there is the ultimate tie breaker: why would big companies (like Gersh and Scott Free) let their logos and names be used by a site that is not in any way endorsed by them or that they are not in cooperation with?
Doesn't make any sense.
Now, my wary paranoia told me that, since in my last blog, I questioned the sincerity of GMM and therefore, the staff was just not sending my VIP submissions through to these companies, but rejecting me outright without sending my pitches along to the companies. But chances are the companies are indeed rejecting me out of lack of interest for whatever personal reasons.
Onward I persist.