Coltan Scrivner

So horror helped them kind of get over their anxiety or their depression or existential questions they had.

In that it interrupted the pattern they were stuck in.

That's part of it.

But also horror deals in those emotions, right?

Horror deals in anxiety.

It deals in depression.

It deals in threats and danger and awful things that happen.

And I think it just helps to play that out.

Of course.

And some of the biochemical explanations come into play there.

It's like, I got through this.

I didn't enjoy the fear necessarily, but man, overcoming it sure feels good.

Okay.

Yeah, this is before I had really done much work on morbid curiosity.

I was interested in fear and how we play with it.

And that combined with interest in people's interest in violence that I had.

I kind of combined those next year or two after that and realized that there were a lot of overlap between them.

There was a lot of commonalities between them.

So I developed this concept of morbid curiosity.

And of course, everyone has heard of this.