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James Anthony Janisse (born May 6, 1989 (1989-05-06) [age 35]), better known online as Dead Meat, is an American YouTuber, movie reviewer, comedian, vlogger, gamer, and the host of the Kill Count who first made his YouTube debut on the channel Practical Folks.

Personal life

In his videos, he has explains that he has also worked as an editor and has even acted in movies and shows. although only as background characters. His notable citations of work include being a minor writer for TMI Hollywood (2014), an editor for Powerhour (2016-2017), and a camera and electrical department manager for Lee Martin's The Midnight Hour. His small acting jobs include The Look-See by Crypt TV as Raymond, Powerhour, Hashtag (as Beach Guy), So far from God (Cal), Talons (Lineup Man No.1), Chewy (Michael McCrane), and some other short scenes.

YouTube history

James had first started his career as a YouTuber in the US State of Michigan on January 13, 2014, but was later turned into an LA-based group that consisted of his wife Chelsea Rebecca, as well as friends James Graessle and Joel Arnold.

Since then James made the Dead Meat channel, where he mostly covers horror franchises with Kill Counts, as well as Podcasts about horror movies and shows. He also does this with Chelsea as his co-host.

James also records some of the horror conventions he goes to, where sometimes he meets iconic slasher movie actors, such as Kane Hodder (Played Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Parts 7–10), Nick Castle (Played Michael Myers in the Original Halloween and briefly in the 2018 remake of Halloween), James Jude Courtney (Played Michael Myers in the 2018 remake of Halloween), and Jeffrey Combs (who was in the Re-Animator trilogy), and many others asking them for interviews on their careers as horror actors. He also attends multiple premiers of different movies if he has a chance to do so, as shown in a few of his videos.

Kill Count

The main reason people watch his channel is for his Kill Count series. A weekly series where James will take a horror film and count the kills in it. At the start of the video he will talk about the films impact (director and behind-the-scenes, how much the film means to him, etc.) and then he plays clips from the movies while he recaps them. Whenever someone dies he will keep track of it and at the end he will typically do a funny gag to "Get to the numbers".

He will then tally up a number of how many people perished, then sort the kill count in a pie chart by gender as well as a kill-on-average figure, found by dividing the film's length by its total kills and multiplying that number by 60. After the pie chart and kill-on-average figure, he awards 2 medals, one is the Golden Chainsaw which goes to his favorite kill in the movie, followed by the Dull Machete for his least favorite kill. Some series will have bonus awards such as Saw, Jurassic Park and Final Destination. Additionally, some zombie movies will have the Coolest Zombie award, if any.

Dead Meat Podcast

The Dead Meat Podcast is ran by His wife, Chelsea,^[1] The Podcast often putting hours of research into each episode. The podcast episodes vary in what they are about (Movie Reviews, Games, Guests, etc.) Of course, to stick with the theme of the channel it is still Horror Related almost all the time. The podcast episodes are typically more laid back and can be seen act a lot more freely as the Podcasts are not scripted.

Other Series

James does other series besides Kill Counts and the Dead Meat Podcast. Majority of these videos are now moved to Dead Meat Presents..., a channel reserved for non-Kill Count related content. These include:

• What's Your Favorite Scary Movie, where he asks people like Wrestlers and YouTubers with a few starring guests such as MatPat from The Game Theorists, Rhett from Good Mythical Morning, Brizzy from Brizzy Voices, and Chris from FoundFlix what their favorite horror movie is.

• Ranking Videos, where he will either rank all films in a series, or top favorite kills from a series.

• Video Game livestreams, such as his recent Doom playthroughs.

• Cut Comparison, where he will typically take the Directors Cut and the Theatrical Cut of different films, and compare them.

• Kill Count Trailers where James and his editors make trailers for upcoming movies on the Kill Count.

• They Talk!, created by his friend, producer, and editor Zoran R Gvojic from YouTube channel Lowcarbcomedy, where we hear the killer's thoughts.

• Dead Meat Horror Awards, which is a yearly award show which rewards movies from the year before based on different categories.

Quotes

• "The movie begins with..."
• "(Creature) fight!!!" (Usually spoken when there's a fight in the movie.)
• "...in the FACE!" (Usually when someone gets an injury in the face.)
• "TITLE CARD...!"
• "Mmm... (food)" (Usually started as 'Mmm... drugs', but used to the extent of food. Derived from Homer from The Simpsons.)
• "BUSINESS!"

Trivia

• On September 13, 2019, James had announced on his Instagram that he proposed to his girlfriend turned fiancé, Chelsea Rebecca, on Friday the 13th, which he says was not planned.^[1]
  • They married on January 21, 2022, after several postpones due to COVID-19.^[2]
• He is a David Bowie fan.^[3]
• James has met multiple actors at horror conventions, including Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees), Nick Castle (Michael Myers; Halloween), James Jude Courtney (Myers; Halloween 2018), Tyler Mane (Myers; Rob Zombie's Halloween 1-2), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator), Tony Todd (Candyman), as well as a character in the Final Destination franchise, and many more.^[4]
• His least favorite horror film is Verotika, his favorite horror film is The Thing, and his favorite non-horror film is The Royal Tenenbaums.
• Chelsea and James are both WWE fans and have met multiple wrestlers outside the ring.^[5]
• During his kill count of the Leprechaun series, he made it known that he dislikes the franchise a lot, and so he often clowns the series in different videos on rare occasions when relating to a topic about the different kill count, but interestingly enough, this year he said he has grown to kind of like Leprechaun in his ranking of all the films.
• One of the most infamous clips of James comes from the kill count for the 2018 film Mandy; James is shown with an ax similar to the one used by Nicolas Cage in the film. Upon the conclusion of the video, James places the ax on the shelf and begins to walk away, only for the ax to fall off the shelf and break into two, much to James' despair (the clip is shown at the end of the Mandy review, as well as briefly at the beginning, when James discusses what happened and that the makers of the ax sent him a complementary replacement).
• His intro music is "U Make Me Feel" by MK2. The music used in the Kill Counts is "Slow Shock" by Silent Panther.
• He's known to have a seething hatred for ThanksKilling 3
  • Before being pestered by his fans to cover the movie, he would search for other Thanksgiving movies to cover in order to avoid the film.
    • However, he decided it would be best just to get it over and done with so his fans would stop pestering him. This would come to fruition on November 25, 2021, which was coincidentally Thanksgiving, when he released the Kill Count for ThanksKilling 3.
  • Other than ThanksKilling 3, some of his least favourite movies include Leprechaun 4: In Space, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Verotika and Antebellum.
• The word "Minecraft" is blocked in his twitch chat.^{[citation needed]}
• James announced in The Forever Purge (2021) KILL COUNT he will not be hosting the Kill Count until Summer 2022 due to his wedding and that Zoran will take over the channel while he is gone, during which he hosted the Tremors franchise, Slither, and Deathgasm. After Deathgasm, James returned to the Kill Count with Stranger Things 3.
• Chelsea also made a Kill Count for American Psycho and American Psycho 2 in 2022. She would later make a Kill Count for another film Bones and All and a Kill Count for the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc; both of them came out during 2023.
• James and Chelsea made a cameo in Scream, and they received a "special thanks" credits in Scream VI.
• His father, James Bernard Janisse, passed away on March 30, 2023, due to cancer. Zoran hosted Kill Counts during the time, covering Deep Rising, The Collector, The Collection, and the Critters franchise until June, when James returned to the Kill Count hosting with the Urban Legend Kill Count.
  • Additionally, it has been revealed that James' sister, Janelle, died at some point before the channel was even established.^[6]

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