Coltan Scrivner

So like a seven or seven and a half out of ten.

Not a five.

Not a five.

Not a ten, which is interesting because if you look at marketing campaigns for horror movies or haunted attractions, they always try to say this is the scariest thing you'll ever experience.

And that's not necessarily what people want.

It's not necessarily when they have the most fun or when they enjoy it the most.

Yeah, but people still do regulate their fear and their anxiety, even in horror movies, right?

Sometimes you need it to be scarier.

So what do you do?

You turn down the lights.

You really get immersed in it, right?

You imagine it could be real.

Yeah.

And then other times you need to dampen that, right?

You need to close your eyes or cover your eyes, watch it with the lights on, watch it with a friend, do things that make it less scary.

So you're always trying to regulate.

A lot of the research I'm doing, I think that's a really magical type of play because what you're doing is you are practicing regulating your anxiety and regulating your fear, which is something you can use later in the real world.

Like immersion therapy.

Exactly.

Yeah.