Emer Prevost

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to an all new Reaction and Review"

- Catchphrase at the beginning of each episode

Emerson Bear Prevost (September 14, 1982 - August 6, 2017 [aged 34]) , also known as Hellsing920, and He11sing920, was a YouTuber who created his first channel back in 2006, a channel where he reviewed retro games, until his account was suspended in 2007, before returning in 2008, where he made videos here and there, mostly rants, up until 2011, when he started his series Reaction & Review, which is what he became known for; a show where he watched a movie, and reacted to it, afterwards reviewed it. In his final years he dabbled into other types of videos, such as Let's Plays, What's in the Box, a weekly Q&A Livestream, a trading card game series, Longbox Chronicles, (a comic book review series), and even, to a much lesser extent, Game Reviews, but R&R was his primary and most viewed series on his channel; he stopped ranting several years ago, due to him, and many others, believing that they were terrible, but there were still many of his fans who wished for him to bring his rants back, which he refused to do. Emer was known for being a very opinionated and outspoken individual, who didn't sugarcoat harsh criticisms for movies, and was willing to state exactly what he felt about any matter during his weekly streams, regardless of what others thought about it.

Prevost suffered from medical problems on and off starting in October 2016. He died after a failed surgery on a hernia he'd had since July of 2017 on August 7, 2017, a night after he was set to do a second stream for Resident Evil VII: Biohazard on the PS4.

History
Prior to his YouTube career, Prevost wrote articles for ObsessedWithWrestling.com (now known as OnlineWorldofWrestling.com). He created a YouTube account in 2007, known as Hellsing920, but it was terminated before the year even ended (for copyright infringement).

Hellsing returned to YouTube in April 2008 as He11sing920 ("11" instead of "LL"). The new channel had a bigger focus on rants, vlogs, and informative videos. His most popular videos were those of "The Epic Rant" series, where fans requested topics for him to make full length rant videos about. However, the videos have since been deleted, and Hellsing claimed that he regretted making these videos. Most episodes of "The Epic Rant" have been reuploaded since 2010.

Prevost started Reaction and Review on February 8, 2011. He started it after a livestream he took part in of watching movies, during which he promised he would watch the movie known as Kickassia, which was a movie made by Doug Walker of Channel Awesome. After an issue took place with the livestream, he was unable to watch the movie, but to repay his fans whom he promised he would watch the film, he decided to record himself on camera watching the movie, cutting out all of the dead air, uploaded it, and called it "Reaction and Review." At the time he never intended this to become an ongoing series, however, mainly due to the positive response of his fans, he decided to continue doing this, which is why it became an ongoing series that he continued to do over the next 6 years, to the point where he uploaded usually 2 or 3 new episodes a week.

Prevost had an Amazon Wishlist in which you could purchase certain movies for him to review, and he also did take requests, but not movies that he had no interest in watching. He was very vocal and harsh with his opinions, which often times gave people the false impression that he thought that his opinion was the only opinion, which he constantly denied. Prevost also often times dedicated entire months to a certain theme for his series. Examples of this include Fan Appriciation Month, in which he reviewed strictly movies that came off of the Amazon Wish List, Longbox Chronicles Month, in which he reviewed strictly comic book adapted movies, months dedicated strictly to either Marvel Comics or DC Comics, as well as months dedicated to certain film studios such as Troma or Full Moon, among other themed months.

Before starting Reaction & Review, Prevost did video Rants, inspired by ranters like Bigal, as well as a few others. He discontinued these videos in 2010, calling them complete shit, and refused to ever continue them again. Prevost was good friends with many YouTubers, including RandomDCE, skybluemonty, Phillip J Reed, DarknesstheCurse, nodategamers, Razorfist, samuraikarasu, heavybaseX, Kari Okami, and others, many of which who appeared in not only his streams with him, but also appeared in his Let's Plays with him, too. After discontinuing his Netflix account, Emer stopped watching any movies on Netflix for Reaction & Review, which he used to do a lot beforehand.

Death
Around 1:00am on August 7, 2017, Prevost died in a hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He openly disclosed in a stream on July 15, 2017, that he had been suffering from a hernia. He mentioned on July 27, 2017, in his final stream, that he was going to have surgery done to help out with the hernia. However, when he was sent to the hospital on the night of August 6 to have the surgery done, surgical complications claimed his life the next morning. This news was revealed by his brother Martin Prevost on Facebook the same day, which caused an outpour of tributes from fans and friends alike, including Clay Claymore, RandomDCE, and even former friends such as Asalieri.

Reaction & Review Rules & Guidelines

 * 1) Any movie Prevost reviewed had to be at least 40 minutes in length. If he reviewed a series, then it's total runtime had to be at least 40 minutes in length.
 * 2) Prevost would review a series, there was a runtime limit; the limit was, he would have to be able to finish it within a month of videos. This would usually be 8-10 videos, and watching 3-5 episodes per video.
 * 3) If someone bought a movie off the Amazon Wish List, he WOULD review it, no matter what.
 * 4) Although Prevost took requests, this did not mean that he would take every request thrown at him. He had to be interested in the movie to review it; this could be whether he thought it will be good or if he thought it would be bad.
 * 5) Prevost had no country, style, or time period of preference. He'd review both animated or live action of any country of any time period.
 * 6) If Prevost got sick of certain types of movies he'd ban those types from the series. For example, pornos were banned, among others.  He'd also refuse to watch movies depending on people's description. A good example of this was when people described something as "disturbing" because when they did, he almost never found them to be disturbing at all.
 * 7) No matter how much Prevost hated a movie, a big rule was that he had to always finish the film to the end when he started recording.
 * 8) Most of the time he only reviewed movies he has never watched. The only exception was movies that he hadn't seen in 15 years.  At that point he would be willing to review them, but this very rarely occurred.

Reaction & Review Themed Months

 * 1) Fan Appriciation Month
 * 2) Longbox Chronicles Month
 * 3) It Came From DC Comics
 * 4) Month of Troma
 * 5) Month of the Full Moon
 * 6) It Came From Netflix
 * 7) Ani-May
 * 8) Video Game Movie Month
 * 9) Studio Ghibli Month
 * 10) Puppet Master Month (one time month when he reviewed all of the Puppet Master horror movies).
 * 11) Turkeys From Turkey Month (looking at Turkish mockbusters)
 * 12) Kaiju Month
 * 13) Attack of the Remakes
 * 14) DC vs. Marvel
 * 15) While not a theme, it was common for Prevost to review two film franchises over the course of a month, alternating from one franchise to the other for each episode (i.e. alternating between the Leprechaun and Prom Night movies one month).

Reaction & Review Banned Movies
Over the years Prevost banned certain types of movies from his show, due to them almost never, if ever, pleasing him, or when viewers got "pushy" and demand a review.
 * 1) Porn Movies (Primarily porn parodies, crappy movies like Batman XXX: A Porn Parody and Star Ballz got these banned).
 * 2) Shark Movies (He never liked them, he even hated the Jaws movies).
 * 3) Deadpool (after a viewer expected a review shortly after the movie was released in theaters)
 * 4) All My Little Pony movies (after watching the Equestria Girls trilogy)
 * 5) The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (after watching the first two)
 * 6) Guardians Of The Galaxy (due to overhype while the movie was still in theaters)
 * 7) Documentaries
 * 8) All movies from Unearthed Films (after having an altercation with Unearthed Films president Stephen Biro)
 * 9) All Pixar movies (due to the overzelous nature of most Pixar fans)
 * 10) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Roadchip (after watching the first three Chipmunks films)

Season 1
"February 8, 2011-October 6, 2011"

Season 2
"October 6, 2011-May 7, 2012"

Season 3
"May 10, 2012-October 28, 2012"

Season 4
"November 1, 2012-April 24, 2013"

Season 5
"April 29, 2013-October 6, 2013"

Season 6
"October 9, 2013-March 30, 2014"

Season 7
"April 2, 2014-September 20, 2014"

Season 8
"September 24, 2014-March 14, 2015"

Season 9
"March 18, 2015-Present"

Season 10
"September 12, 2015-March 2, 2016"

Season 11
"March 5, 2016-August 24, 2016"

Season 13
"March 8, 2017-Present"

Shootin' the Shit Wtih Emer/Ask Emer Live
Ask Emer LIVE was a show Prevost started in early to 2014, with his then good friend  Asalieri, and it was meant to be a live Q&A series. The original stream failed, but they did another, more successful stream immediately afterwards. In 2015, Prevost changed the name to  Shooting the Shit w/Emer. Over the years he had many of his good friends on as guests, but also did as many solo streams as well. The show used to be weekly, until early 2016. Up until this point, it was a weekly stream, uploaded every Friday, and rarely ever missed a week. Sometimes he would change the date to Saturday, or do it on both days, and on the very rare occasion he would do one on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, but not very often. During early 2016 he stopped doing it regularly, but still did one every once in a while. The streams were used for him and his possible guests to answer fan questions, and just talk about and discuss anything else that they felt like.

Pet Peeves on Prevost's Streams (these things could get you banned from the stream)

 * 1) Repeat questions
 * 2) Ask about trailers (he rarely watched movie trailers)
 * 3) Ask what he thinks about someone's death (he considered it to be tasteless)
 * 4) Ask about Asalieri (he didn't want to talk about their falling out at all)
 * 5) Complain that he wouldn't do Reaction & Review for a certain movie.
 * 6) Complain that he wouldn't watch a certain movie.
 * 7) Ask for a Reaction & Review for a certain movie before it was even released.
 * 8) Speculating about a movie before a trailer was released.

Guests

 * 1) TheGamingGoose (Eric)
 * 2) RazorFist
 * 3) TheDarknessTheCurse (Josh)
 * 4) MrSuperDuck (Duck)
 * 5) Kari Ookami (Kari)
 * 6) Bigal2k6/BigalUpdates  (Al or Big Al)
 * 7) Asalieri (Eric Galade)
 * 8) JustKeepThatInMind (David)

Trading Card Corner
Trading Card Corner was Prevost's final series, started on November 26, 2015, where he bought a set of trading cards, and then unboxed them and reviewed them on camera. He was willing to review any type of trading cards as long as he was interested in what they were about, for example Star Trek, Comic Books, (especially DC Comics), among other things.

The Long Box Chronicles
This was a discontinued series of videos where Prevost talked about specific stories in comic books. It was discontinued a few years ago. Prevost stated interest in reviving the show at some point in the future, however, due to Prevost's death, the series will not be revived.



EPIC Rant
EPIC Rant was the first major series that Prevost ever did on his channel, back in 2008. He discontinued this ranting series due to him, (and many of his friends), feeling that the rants were terrible and, no matter how many times his fans begged him to bring the rants back, he said that he would never, no matter what.

''NOTE:  Most of his rants aren't on his channel due to them either deleting them or being on his previous channel, which was suspended and never came back. ''

What's In The Box
What's in the Box was a series where Emer Unboxed a pack that he was subscribed that has memorabilia about a specific topic. Out of the below boxes, the only ones he was still subscribed to at the time of his death were Comic Bento and HorrorPack.



Patreon
On August 14, 2016, Emer opened up a Patreon page so his fans can donate money to him. At the time of his death, he had not set any reward goals or any stretch goals.

Emer Prevost's Patreon Introduction
Well, let's see how this Patreon thing goes. Also, I am surprised how long I have been on the fence about opening this, considering all the videos that are on here, (which I have no memory of ever adding to the page in the first place). I really wish I knew why I was here. Numerous viewers of mine have asked if I would start a Patreon, so I am just putting this up for them. So, let's just consider this a tip jar of sorts. If you want to pledge; feel free to do so. If not, that is cool, too.

Reward Goals
None

Stretch Goals
None

Amazon Wish List
Emer had an Amazon Wish List for many years, in which people could buy movies that they want to see him do for Reaction & Review. He'd give them shoutouts at the end of the reviews of the movies that they sent in. Sometimes he'd also donate an entire month to movies sent in on the Amazon Wish List.

Good Friends on YouTube At the Time of His Death
The following people are fellow, well known YouTubers that Emer mentioned before or have appeared in live streams with him, and were good friends with him.
 * 1) TheGamingGoose (Eric)
 * 2) RazorFist
 * 3) TheDarknessTheCurse (Josh)
 * 4) MrSuperDuck (Duck)
 * 5) Kari Ookami (Kari)
 * 6) Bluemagus  (Danny)
 * 7) RandomDCE  (Random)
 * 8) Larry Bundy Jr/Guru Larry (Larry)

Former Good Friends on YouTube At the Time of His Death

 * 1) Asalieri (Eric Galade)
 * 2) Just Keep That In Mind (David Hardy)
 * 3) Big Al (Al)
 * 4) LeisureSuitGaming/Face Destroyer Inc./Silent Rob (Rob Lowe)

Mentioned by Prevost Positively

 * 1) AlphaOmegaSin (good friends with Razorfist)
 * 2) I Hate Everything
 * 3) Irate Gamer
 * 4) GradeAUnderA

Mentioned by Prevost Negatively

 * 1) Darksydephil (Phillip Burnell)
 * 2) TheAmazingAtheist
 * 3) Drama Alert (Keemstar)
 * 4) LeafyIsHere
 * 5) TheMysteriousMrEnter
 * 6) Youngbloodfantasy91
 * 7) Asalieri (after their friendship ended)
 * 8) Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic from Channel Awesome)
 * 9) James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd from his YouTube chanels JamesNintendoNerd and Cinemassacre)
 * 10) Mike Matei (James Rolfe's best friend, and fellow member of Cinemassacre)
 * 11) Matthew Santoro
 * 12) Tyrone Magnus
 * 13) PewDiePie
 * 14) AlphaOmegaSin
 * 15) JustKeepThatInMind (David Hardy)

Criticism
Over the years Prevost received a lot of criticism for his opinions, his statements, and his cynical attitude towards other people.

Comments About Copyright & Fair Use
One of which are comments that Prevost made on copyright and fair use, giving him a lot of hate from people calling him stupid, ignorant, and pseudo intellectual. One comment that he made on the YouTube commentary community caused popular commentator Youngbloodfantasy91 to make a video addressing the matter, especially since Prevost apparently passive-aggressively mentioned YoungBlood in the comment that he made on the commentary community.

Hypocrite
Other sources of criticism came calling Prevost a hypocrite for several reasons. These include, but MAY not be limited to him criticizing the commentary community but then making a commentary of his own, which he deleted. In addition, he claimed he hated his old rants and would never rant again, and yet he made rants on occasion despite this. Furthermore, he criticized Patreon in the past, but eventually decided to create his own Patreon page.

2016 Drama
In 2015, Prevost had a falling out with many of his longtime friends on YouTube, starting with Asalieri, a friend of 6 years. It all started when Prevost spent 5 dollars to buy Eric the game Sonic All Stars Racing. After Asa played the game, he left a negative review which sent Prevost off. Prevost got angry at Asa, claiming that all he did was play the game for a little while, got frustrated, didn't even try to figure out how to play it properly, and gave up, even comparing him to darksydephil. This caused Asa to make a video explaining the drama that took place, presenting the intense Facebook conversation that took place the day of. Asa claimed that he wouldn't have even made his own video and brought it up if Prevost didn't briefly mention it in one of his streams, while Prevost claimed that Asa would've made it anyways because he's a "drama whore."

The next time this was brought up was when Asalieri made a 3-hour live stream dedicated to exposing Prevost, along with a few of his friends, including SilentRob. Prevost allegedly flagged the stream and took it down, (it later went back up), causing Asa to make another separate video presenting the exposure that he presented in the live stream, as well as some new information. He declares, while providing proof, that Prevost didn't bathe, and lost his job at the casino owned his tribe because of his poor hygiene. His father had to pull strings with the tribe to get him the job in the first place because Prevost couldn't even be bothered to find a job himself, and, following his termination, his father had to beg to get him hired back on in solitude where he wouldn't have to interact with other employees or any customers. In addition, he was twice as fat as Asa himself, and could apparently eat two Arby's Meat Mountains in one sitting and still be hungry afterward. According to his longtime friend David Hardy, he was a virgin, never dated a girl, couldn't drive, weighed over 400 pounds, and didn't get his first job until he was 30, and even then it was a high schooler's job.

Much of the information mentioned above was brought up on Facebook by David Hardy aka JustKeepThatInMind, who had been best friends with Prevost from 2006. This friendship also ended, however, when Prevost came over to David's house and pushed him up against the wall because he was apparently offended at the conversation that David had with Asa over facebook. In addition, Prevost and David also had a heated exchange over Facebook, which ended the decade-long friendship (which turned out to be a prank on Asa). In his most recent video, Asa explained that during this decade of friendship David happily bought Prevost games, hotels, first class tickets so he could travel to conventions, and even bought him a Wii U, in rebuttal of Prevost's claim that Asa himself is a "bottom feeder." What's more, Asa calls Prevost a hypocrite for selling the Wii U after 2 weeks, and yet still got so "butthurt" because Asa gave a "negative" review for a 5 dollar game.

Aside from Asa, Prevost lost other friends during this period, including Big Al and SilentRob. The status of him and some of his other friends, including Kari, Random, Goose, Duck, Bluemagus, among others, was unknown by the time of his death.

Popular Hellsing920 Parodies

 * 1) Hellastink Re-phew: The Epic Soap Review (by Asalieri)
 * 2) AnotherHelping920: The "Epic" Review (by LeisureSuitGaming/FaceDestroyerInc./SilentRob)
 * 3) Hellsing920: The Epic Parody (by BloodyShadow24)
 * 4) Hellsing920: The "Epic" Parody (by MovieBuff13)
 * 5) Hellsing920 The 5 Second Chronicle (by BigAl Archives)
 * 6) Hellsing920 Loves Bagels (by AvatarKT4)