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Our Love of Horror Movies and the Masochistic Search for Fear
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Our Love of Horror Movies and the Masochistic Search for Fear

Society’s craving for horror speaks to something strange about our shared psychology

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Ben Ulansey
Nov 01, 2024
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It may not sound like a particularly bold statement, but I begin each movie with the hope that I’ll enjoy it. It’s certainly not every movie that I turn on expecting it will change my life forever, but never will I enter these cinematic worlds craving an unpleasant time. And yet, my relationship with horror has an interesting way of b…

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