horror
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I said in my previous post about this article that I was going to write about the age dynamic as it relates to horror movies, but I decided to choose a sexier topic for today: why do people even watch horror in the first place? The article I am referring to is a terrific article…
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There was a fantastic article published in October 2019 by G. Neil Martin titled “(Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Response to Horror Films” in the journal Frontiers of Psychology. I’m going to write multiple posts about this one article because it is robust with information about…
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We covered the very tiny, now let’s cover the very large. Unlike the threat of something pint-sized which often falls into camp absurdity, the threat of a monster as big as, or bigger than, a building is a fear everyone can understand and relate to. Not only does there exist the threat of being stepped…
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In keeping with our tiny terrors theme, we now expend to include pint-sized perpetrators! These are villains who don’t have the benefit of numbers but still prove that killer things can come in small packages. It’s Alive (1974) – As the trailer said: “There’s only thing wrong with the Davis baby – it’s alive.” A…
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How about a marathon of movies that prove size doesn’t matter?… as long as you can make up for it in sheer number! In that case, queue up these movies featuring creature crumbs or tiny terrors who bring about horror through their miniature monstrousness. Interestingly, most movies about monsters or creatures that are small enough…
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To begin our adventure into the realm of horror movie marathon ideas, I thought we might start with some home-grown, maple-syrup-fed, hockey-loving horror movies from right here in the Great White North. I will be the first to admit that when I think of countries that produce the best horror movies, Canada is not the…
