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Coltan Scrivner

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2167 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And then the other question about why is horror on the rise?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

This is a conclusion that I came to in the past month or two.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

So I'm still kind of speculating about it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And they're like, I'm never watching a scary movie again.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

They had this urge to watch something scary, whether it was contagion or even horror.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Horror had a moment during 2020 and 2021.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And I think that they've just been watching it more.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And because they're watching more, filmmakers are taking note, production companies are taking note, and they're producing more of them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

There's more money for horror now.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

That's my speculation about what's gone on is that there is a new crop of horror fans that popped up around 2020.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Not more.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

So do serial killers like movies about killing?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Probably.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Dahmer famously liked The Exorcist 3, which is a really obscure one.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

I actually don't know if he liked horror movies, but he loved The Exorcist 3.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

That was his movie.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

That was his thing.