Coltan Scrivner

Go out into the real world, go to the supermarket.

It's an easy fix, right?

It's easy to avoid some of those downsides.

And the downsides that have historically been associated with being a horror fan or being morbidly curious don't seem to pan out.

It doesn't have anything to do with a lot of bad things in human life.

As you mentioned, you learn things throughout your life.

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.