It’s the safest way to survive an ordeal, and usually, the experience is communal.
But in quarantine, it’s more like building a muscle through repetition.
It was perseverance 101.
It was finding comfort in the continued company of monsters.
Lo and behold, what’s waiting for them is, primarily, horror movies.
It’s screamingly, violently perfect.
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(Two superpowered titans putting aside their ideological differences to take on a much scarier, seemingly unstoppable force?
Of course, feeling okay to return at all is the first and arguably scariest leap.
Damn near a religious experience.
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A table of food after a 20-mile walk through the desert, no mirage.
That glorious human connection is also the reason why returning to movie theaters feels deeply,profoundlystrange.
We’re not ready for human interaction, period.
Why did I say that?
Which is why horror is the key to the return.
It’s my mid-pandemic slasher marathon on a communal scale.
Horror is the theatrical experience’s great emotional equalizer.
As always, the movies won’t save us completely.
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