A quick “Hey Google, am I a serial killer?”
Even on tiny, subconscious levels your brain is flooded with the fact you survived an ordeal.
What’s more, you often survived it as a group.
But it’s safe to say our reality has changed.
So we’re essentially discussing horror’s positive effects that no longer exist in this reality.
It’s hard to foster a feeling of community in a one-man quarantine.
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It’s no longer a cathartic thing, it’s an endurance test.
But that’d be ignoring about 40 years of slasher movie history and also reality.
There’s no “winning” right now, just small moments between big jolts.
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But eventually, that’s also the exact thing that became a comfort for me.
If watching a single horror movie builds fear muscles, I need goddamn decathlon training.
It’s the catharsis that the horror genre naturally brings melded with the escapism of an easily-bingeable half-hour comedy.
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Is ithealthyto find comfort in that?
My dudes, I’m a psychologist the way Freddy Krueger is a registeredau pair.
Harsh, but fair.
But I won’t begrudge anyone whatever small comforts they can find in entertainment at a time like this.
What’s the quote?
I don’t know.
It doesn’t make sense.
Not much does make sense right now.
