Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, ...

Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and ...

Either in terms of unreliable narrators, illustration of psychological deterioration, or believable chilling atmospheres, the psychological thriller genre can easily be one of the scariest. Although ...

UNFORTUNATE. WELL, SPOOKY SEASON. IT’S ALL ABOUT WATCHING SCARY MOVIES. GOING TO HAUNTED HOUSES. WE LOVE THE THRILLS. YES, BUT WHY DO WE? OUR ERIN BURNETT LOOKED INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING SCARED.

The 1973 horror film "The Exorcist" was so scary that audiences left the theater up and out — throwing up and passing out, that is. The same cannot be said of a horror movie released in 1984, "Silent ...

Americans shell out north of $12 billion for fright night—and that tells us something pretty interesting about our psychological needs. But as a human being, you also have to ask: Why? What is it ...

Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, ...

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