The Thrill of Fear: Audience Reactions to Horror and Beyond

What scares you the most? Is it something creepy and crawly? Something that slithers?

Maybe it's the dark, or the end of the world, or, even worse, a bad report card.

We all have things that scare us. And movies are good at making us experiencing those things in a safe way. But why do we even want to do it in the first place? We discuss what we like about being scared.

And later...

Vampires have been a pop culture staple for decades — as movie monsters and as metaphors for our deepest desires. And whether your favorite vampires are Nosferatu and Dracula, or Louis and Lestat, they all have a few bloody things in common.

We get into why the vampire myth prevails and how the vampire genre is changing, during our Spooky Roundup.

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