Coltan Scrivner

Right.

So if horror movies are really about fear and terrible bad guys only, then Predator should be a horror film.

But if you watch it.

you realize that, yes, they're a little bit taken aback at first because they're caught by surprise by this perfect hunting machine.

But they're also a group of Green Berets led by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

They're not vulnerable.

They have machine guns, for God's sake.

Yeah, yeah, they have machine guns.

And there's lots of studies showing that specific thing that if you show people a picture of a hand holding a screwdriver or a hammer, and then you show people another hand holding a handgun,

And you ask people, hey, imagine who's holding this, right?

What do they look like?

How big are they?

How tall are they?

How strong are they?

Interestingly, they will say that the person holding the gun, they'll imagine them in their mind's eye as larger, stronger, more formidable.

And that's because the mind is...

Taking the fact that this person has a gun, that makes them stronger and more dangerous.

And the mind maps that onto this very evolutionarily old cognitive mapping of bigger things are stronger.

So when you go to imagine it, you imagine it's bigger and stronger, right?

So even when we see Arnold Schwarzenegger and then we see him with a machine gun, we're imagining like, oh, my God, this guy is not vulnerable at all.