What can horror movies tell us
about universal human fears and anxieties?
Thanks to El Sloganero.
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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
8/23/08
The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century
A man in Cameroon goes to town one day and finds everyone dead! Did he step... into the Twilight Zone? A volatile lake turns out to be the cause of this deadly natural disaster.
Mass Hysteria!
Blame the Movies!
Scream makes this list, which I guess I was surprised by.
It is one of my favorites because it was the first scary movie I saw as an adult (since the whole Jaws trauma) and started my "hobby" of watching horror films... for fun!
Odd Person of Note: The Collyer Brothers
I read a book a while ago called 'Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An Urban Historical', a very descriptive title indeed. These very wealthy brothers lived in a townhouse in Harlem (5th and 128th). They seemed to share a hoarding problem, packing the entire house from floor to ceiling, fortified with booby traps. Becoming recluses, the house eventually led to their unfortunate and rather grisly demise. This left the enormous problem of the packed house on the hands of the city. The excavation turned up a massive list of things ranging from a Model T Ford to decades of newspapers and drew quite a crowd.
A couple years after I read this book I had the pleasure/horror of visiting a property being cleared of a life time of hoarding. It brought home how sad this behavior is. Fascinating nonetheless. Some of my pictures below.
8/22/08
Scientist Find a "Horror Gene"?!
"The scientists found that those carrying two copies of it (the gene, COMT) were significantly more startled by frightening images than others.
By contrast, those who had one copy of the gene and one copy of another version were able to keep their emotions in check far more readily."
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