While I understand the idea that Matt is trying to convey here (and agree that a dying/inherently boring genre as slasher horror was a poor choice to christen this idea on), I think he's going about it from the wrong angle entirely. One bad movie does not negate the utility, and overreaching novelty of crowdsourcing a movie.
That, and I think
Letting a gas station employee play director is perhaps less dangerous than letting him be a thoracic surgeon, but it’s no more likely to achieve a good result.
Is a wholly inappropriate thing to say, given the ultimate goal of this entire project: do what has never before been done in this spectrum of entertainment and produce a complete movie. That's an especially tough pill to swallow if you haven't seen the movie, or met the director. (actually, it's an inappropriate thing to say even if you put aside the fact that they're making a movie. That's needlessly harsh)
I find it very interesting that these people have enough motivation and drive to at least try to do something.
To me it feels like going and telling the people at the park playing basketball to just go home, they wont make it to the NBA....
Is it so bad to make something, potentially sub par, just for the enjoyment of it?