The line between humor horror, its kind of, it's a thin and porous line. Something can be so horrible on the screen that it kind of becomes grotesque and funny,. Like in the evil dead movies. We're talking about the science the fear, a recreation fear, cotming off in segments with one world's experts in that subject. And when we come back, we'll bring in heather berlin to tell us all about what's happening in the neuro chemistry of hear and startling.
Why do we like being scared? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the haunting effects of horror and recreational fear with horror scholar and author, Mathias Clasen, and neuroscientist, Heather Berlin, PhD.
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