Coltan Scrivner

And interest in things like horror and true crime do decline with age, which makes sense because if you were learning something about it,

then you should feel a little less interested, a little less curious about it.

Now, you might find other reasons to enjoy it, maybe because your friends still like it, maybe because you built a community around the horror genre.

There are a lot of other reasons why you might still enjoy horror, but that curiosity that drives you from the beginning might have shifted a little bit.

This blew my mind.

And tried to dox what was her name?

Lead actress.

Instead, like, send these people... Hate mail.

Yeah.

Why?

Isn't that fucking bonkers?

So when I first started looking into this, I was looking for what scientists had to say about the psychology of people who like slashers.

And what I kept coming across were what film critics had to say.

I think it's a film critic's job to hate certain movies.

But it's not their job to say something about the psychology of people who like those movies, right?

that's a very different kind of territory.

It made me realize that people have these intuitions and I kind of understand it.

Like, oh, you like movies where there's a lot of suffering and people are getting hacked up.

I kind of understand the intuition that there might be something wrong with you.

I can sympathize with that, but the data doesn't bear it out, right?