Oct 23, 2013
14 min
Full-HD

The Psychology of Scary Movies (2013)

This short documentary explores eight theories on why humans are so fascinated with fright.

John P. Hess

Arthur Conan Doyle

Self (archive footage)

Sigmund Freud

Self (archive footage)

Warrington Gillette

Jason

Carl Jung

Self (archive footage)

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