Okay listen, I'm well aware that for my own sanity I need to stop getting so attached to niche media with no fan content, but this is a Panman appreciation post because I'm thoroughly disappointed in the fact that this man isn't a tumblr sexyman yet
Let me paint a picture: me and @notsocharming-man, in class. They're trying to slack off, as one does after finals. They type "Pac-man" into Google. They misclick. This poster shows up. We lose our shit.
They move on and play their Pac-man, but I'm not satisfied. I dig and find myself on whoispanman.com. Lime green text on a red background. Panman is edited into various classical art pieces and posters and such. There's a YouTube channel with a bigfoot-style Panman sighting uploaded to it. There's a gallery for the premier of this movie which features a bunch of pictures taken with a Panman mannequin. Absolute cinema. This is the official website by the creator, by the way! It has his contact info!!
Obviously I won't shut up about this and so we watch this movie, it's hilarious, you can tell there was someone on the team who REALLY wanted to flex their blood sfx skills -- genuinely an amazing comedy to watch with a group, assuming nobody is too squeamish
The plot centers around a culinary student named Jeremy who is possessed by the ghost of a dead chef that compels him to cover his head with a pot and murder people with kitchen utensils. Jeremy, however, has his sights on Hope, one of his classmates, which means we receive a beautiful scene where the infamous and widely feared Panman, immediately prior to beheading Hope's douchebag boyfriend with a saucepan, presents her with this note
Out of the eight of us who watched it we all agreed that the first twenty minutes are the best part and could stand alone, but I digress -- what's even better is that whoispan.com is actually a major plot point and in-universe forum website that people use to post updates on Panman, which Jeremy's culinary teacher / Panman's archnemesis, Professor Hunter, uses to track him throughout the film
BUT THAT'S STILL NOT EVEN THE BEST PART BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU THE BEST PART
Remember how I mentioned the creator advertises his contact info? For shits and giggles I went ahead and emailed him (the director as well as the actor who plays Panman) asking if Panman could be considered pansexual (among other things), and he actually responded very promptly with an incredibly well-worded and thorough response saying that any interpretation of Panman's sexuality is welcome and he loves when people see Panman as pan even if he didn't necessarily write him that way
Sooooooo the movie is great and so is Mr. Panman himself, y'all should watch it and email him with your thoughts because I NEED a sequel pls & ty
P.S. here's Panman on my Tomodachi island