Coltan Scrivner

I don't get scared is my thing.

No, so that's an excellent point.

And that was part of the reason I didn't think that was true because a lot of true adrenaline junkies don't get scared enough from horror films.

So it wouldn't make sense to me that adrenaline is the main driver of horror interest.

It is a driver for some people, but it didn't seem like it could be this answer.

Unifying explanation.

Yes, exactly.

And so what I found was that

In addition to the adrenaline junkies, we also found people we called white knucklers.

If you squeeze your fist real tight, you get kind of a white across your knuckles where the blood escapes, right?

Yeah.

We called this group that because when they walked through the hunt, they were squeezing their fists really tight.

They like the fatigue.

They're in it for the fatigue afterwards.

We asked them, we said, how scary was it?

And they're like, oh, it was so scary.

And we're like, did you enjoy how scary it was?

And they're like, not really.

You know, I didn't really enjoy the feeling of fear.

But what they enjoyed was the opportunity to challenge their fears.