Coltan Scrivner
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And then the other question about why is horror on the rise?
This is a conclusion that I came to in the past month or two.
So I'm still kind of speculating about it.
But when COVID became a global pandemic around 2020, a lot of people who had sworn off horror since they were kids, they watched a scary movie when they were a kid, they watched Poltergeist or something.
And they're like, I'm never watching a scary movie again.
They had this urge to watch something scary, whether it was contagion or even horror.
Horror had a moment during 2020 and 2021.
A lot of people, I think, became horror fans again in 2020 and realized that as adults, they kind of like it and they can handle it a little better.
And I think that they've just been watching it more.
And because they're watching more, filmmakers are taking note, production companies are taking note, and they're producing more of them.
There's more money for horror now.
That's my speculation about what's gone on is that there is a new crop of horror fans that popped up around 2020.
And now four or five years later, we're seeing the consequence of that, which is horror being on just an upward trajectory while everything else is kind of stale.
Not more.
So do serial killers like movies about killing?
Probably.
Dahmer famously liked The Exorcist 3, which is a really obscure one.
I actually don't know if he liked horror movies, but he loved The Exorcist 3.
That was his movie.
That was his thing.