October 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Fear. Anxiety. Bring it on! To some, the idea of willingly subjecting yourself to jump scares, monsters, and masked killers doesn't sound like a good time. But science tells us that it absolutely can be! With Halloween around the corner, horror movies will be on everyone's mind. Amy & T. J. -- self-proclaimed horror movie aficionados -- will tell you whether you're wired for horror ... as they kick off a month of movies you need to see.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, they're folks. It is Monday, October first, and there
are two kinds of people in the world, those who
love horror movies and those who don't. Which one are
you and what does it say about you? Welcome to
this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This is sometimes
the only time of year some people even entertain the
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idea of a horror movie. What is the thing they
say about us most a horror movie fans. They think
something's wrong with They.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Think we're sick, we're deviant, we have a fascination with
the abomination. They question our ethics. I mean, I definitely
have had people because I have been a horror movie
fan since I can remember. I believe my first horror movie.
I don't believe. I know my first horror movie was Poltergeist.
In second grade. I sneaked to a neighbor's house who
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had HBO to watch it, and I was hooked from
that moment on. So what does that say about me?
I've had plenty of people, I'm sure judge me, Rick,
We're crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They think something is wrong with us, and some people
can stomach a horror movie or two. We are I
give it to it. We're a little on the extreme side.
We are we wouldn't call ourselves experts. Well, we're something
of aficionados. We watch more horror movies and we know
more about them than most people.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I would talk to you, yes, one hundred percent, and
I would say ninety eight percent of the time we
go to the movies, and we go to the movies
at least once a month, but sometimes more. It is
to see a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, So we talk about horror movies quite a bit.
Anytime we see a new and we see every big
one that comes out, we talk about it on the podcast.
But this time, for the month of Oktober, we are
gonna celebrate horror movies and we're gonna help some of
you folks out. We're gonna in this episode at least
explain a little bit of the science, the psychology, your
personality traits, what is contributing to you liking or not
liking horror movies. That is absolutely fascinating. You're gonna want
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to hear what kind of person you are. But also
we are gonna count down this month. We're gonna give
you a different horror movie every single day of the
month of October, and these aren't gonna be the obvious ones,
not the classics that everybody know. It's not gonna throw
a Halloween or a Friday thirteenth, that's you know. These
are some of the more deep cuts, if you will.
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These are some of the ones that only a true
horror movie fan would be aware of. But they're good
movies that maybe you have never heard of. We're excited
about this list, and we got thirty movies.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We could have done fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh, we could have done eighty. I think. Actually we
had a hard time whittling down the list. We're thinking
we'll save that for next year because the movies that
we're going to give you this month will be from
all different from different decades, different subgenres of horror movies,
and not all highly reviewed. Some of them have a
very high Rotten Tomato score and some of them have
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a fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But we like that and we recommend every single one
gets absolutely all recommendation. But why in the first place,
roapes There is a lot of study that has been
done on this over the years, not all of a consensus,
but it gives you an idea and some insights into
why we like horror movies.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why would anybody?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Right, we're talking about fear, anxiety, dread. Those are negative emotions?
Are they not discussed?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sometimes?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yes, that's the.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
One that you have to throw in there as well.
That's a big deal. We'll talk about why would you Well, okay,
I'll ask you personally, why do you go to the
movie and put yourself in a position to do things
that we normally consider awful?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because there are a couple of reasons. I had to
think about it. It just came naturally to me. I'll
have to say, I didn't have to think about it.
I didn't have to talk myself into it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I just be a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Naturally liked it. And I will have to say both
of my daughters were the exact same way, where they
were fascinated with Harry Potter, then they wanted to watch
Conjuring and they were young. I have a I am
a thrill seeker. I have always loved the rush of adrenaline.
It's why I almost certainly probably gravitated towards the news
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and journalism because there was an excitement and a thrill
and breaking news. So it falls into that same sort
of personality for me where I'm always rushing to the
to get the adrenaline, rush to do something daring, to
feel that thrill. But I love a horror movie because
I can feel all of those things, fear, adrenaline, But
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I'm perfectly safe sitting in a movie theater or on
my count.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I didn't plan on starting with this direction, but you
directed me exactly to this point. Who are the type
of people that like horror movie is one of the
top things. People who have a high sense of sensation seeking. Yes,
you call it thrill seeking. They use the term sensation seeking.
Folks who are looking for some type over rush, who
are looking for a thrill of some kind. Yes, it
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plays into why you ride roller coasters as well. This
was a great line from one study. Listen to this,
and I didn't let you in on a lot of this.
And you saw me almost falling out of my seat, like, baby,
this is gonna be so good.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, you wouldn't let me, Like, don't look at any research.
Let me guide this because you're going to be wowed.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, here's how one researcher put it, and I'm quoting
individuals thought to be high sensation seekers would experience much
more positive emotion when highly aroused and stimulated, and would
seek negative stimulation to maximize their arousal because this stimulation
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was intense. It's saying that the negative experience is such
a rush that you will run to that even though
it's negative.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, I mean you've seen me when things start getting
really tense in a movie theater, I will partially close
my like put my hands over my face so that
I feel safe. But I'm still looking through my hands.
I'm not in jeopardy of anything, and yet I feel
that excitement of ooh, well, I don't want to look,
but I'm looking. I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It goes on robes here. It is a negative stimulus,
such as a horror film, might therefore be interpreted by
a person high in sensation seeking such as yourself, as
being very positive, but a person low in sensation seeking
would find the stimulus a horror movie unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So it has a lot to do with your personality
what you seek out. Even though you might be a
thrill seeker and looking to have fun and climb a
mountain or do a roller coaster that's associated with fun,
you also just the excitement, the energy, and a drilling
you feel you'll go get it anywhere, even if it's
watching some horrible stuff on TV.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, because I know it's not real. Look, I will you.
I have said this, and I and I feel like
you're the same. I don't like watching torture. I don't
like things that are drawn out and excruciating that bothers me.
And if any thing mimics something that is too close
to real life, I also don't love that either. So
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I gravitate like I think that's why I love Supernatural.
I love a monster, I love all of that kind
of thing because I feel safe. I have joked that
maybe I like the extra thrill of Supernatural because there
are no locks to keep the devil out, you know,
so that also, and that has bitten me in the butt.
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Sometimes when I've been alone in a hotel room and
an old hotel, I'd be like, why do I watch
horror movies? Why? As I'm sweating at like the age
of forty five, alone in a hotel room, barely sleeping
because I watched something the night before that now was
keeping me up all night long.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And the things that keep you up are never because
you saw a movie that had to do with bodygore,
nuts or that kind of torture. It was all some spirit.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's supernatural. Anything supernatural that stays with me. I actually
was in a hotel a couple months ago and they
had these old armchairs just sitting towards the bed, and
it was an old hotel from the eighteen hundreds in Colorado,
and I had to actually throw my suitcase on it,
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and then I thought, no, it looks like someone's sitting there.
I've had to take coat hangers off of racks because
I feel like it's going to look like someone standing
over my bed. Like this is what I do so
that I can keep enjoying movies.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, but stimulation is a big reason why you're sitting
in there, and you are being stimulated mentally and physically. Yes, physically,
your heart rate goes up, sometimes you start sweating, you
have sweaty palms, you have a physical reaction to it,
and you're breathing hard. That's a stimulation. Now, your mental
stimulation fear and anxiety. It sounds like a bad thing,
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but you also get from that excitement because the anticipation
of the moment, you're already enjoying that the moment comes boom.
That's the climax to it, and then when it's over,
you come down and enjoy that as well. It's a
cycle that you and I know well. Anticipation, fear, relief,
repeat isn't not the same in every horror movie.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is. And you know what's cool about that is
you you mentioned the moment. You are in the moment
when I am watching something that's that exciting and that thrilling,
I am not thinking about what I have to do tomorrow.
I'm not thinking about what I screwed up today. I
am not doing any of that future casting. I am
in the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, you are truly a horror movie Officionado because another
big part you've guided me to the next thing I
was going to talk. I swear I didn't look you didn't.
But this is another part of why folks that love
horror movies love horror movies, because it is as you
were explaining, it's immersive. You are in it with anticipation,
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You're in the edge of your seat, You're following on
with this character, you are experiencing the same terror that
character is. And yes, you have to be there and
immersed in the moment. You watch other movies you experience
horror movies. I don't didn't really think, what is the
only thing you have to go see with somebody?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Horror?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The horror movie I would do.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I have never. I've watched a horror movie by myself
at home, and I've done that and regretted it because
I've been really scary.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This. You have to because it is an experience.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It is a I want to share it experience with somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And honestly, you we've talked about this before, but this
was a huge connection that you and I had because
when you find someone else who loves horror movies, it's
like this immediate kinship. So I have it with a couple.
I can tell you Sarah Haynes loves horror movies. I
can tell you that Lester Holt loves horror movies because
every time we would see something, we go did you
see this? Did you check this out? And Sarah and
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I would go to some of these movies together and
if you I've tried to bring along people who don't
like it, and I'm like, you're gonna love this one,
and they hate it and they hate it even more
and they're mad at me for going so I'm like,
all right, fine, never come again.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The other things reasons people watch. You've talked about this
privately before plenty escapism, right, it allows you to detach
from your every day all that's going on in the
world right now. It's crazy to think, yeah, let me
go watch somebody get slaughtered on in a movie to
get away from it. But yes, it is escapism. You
know it's not real. You can actually detach from it,
so that's fun. Also, it's an out of this world experience,
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meaning I can watch a zombie apocalypse that's not really
gonna happen to me, but you can still relate to
the characters, put yourself in it, and people seem to
enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It feels I love that because that's so true. It
feels like you're in an altar universe. I remember I
was so immersed. This wasn't a movie, but I was
so immersed into the Walking Dead series that I watched
so many in a row. I remember I walked outside
and I thought that I might see a zombie. But
how fun is that? I mean, obviously, intellectually I knew
I wasn't going to see one, but there was a
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part of me that I had to catch myself, like, wait, no,
I'm in the real world now, there isn't going to
be a zombie coming after me. But I thought that
was so cool that maybe that was even in my head,
that I was living in a fantasy for a little while,
and it felt kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The other people who like horror movies, no surprise, but
at least the studies and whatnot they've seen, usually younger
folks and usually more so men than women, and men
and women seem to sometimes have a different reaction to
movies horror movie. They might watch the same movie get
satisfaction out of that movie for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's funny because a lot of people who I know
who are couples, either one of them loves them and
the other one doesn't, and they always have a hard
time because they can never bring their significant other with
them too. So I remember always having like this like
hodge Podge group of people who couldn't bring their spouses
because no, their spouses didn't want to watch, and like
ran away from the theater. So we would just kind
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of collect ourselves, those us misfits who love horror movies.
It's funny. My brother and I don't have a lot
in comment, but this is the one thing we really
have in comment.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, the other thing, the people who like horror movies
tend to have an openness to experiences. According to some research. Also,
they're able I just mentioned, is able to achieve psychological detachment.
Meaning you're watching a movie, you're seeing a guy in
a mask running towards somebody with clown shoes and a knife.
There's probably not going to happen to you. You're able
to separate enough act necessarily fearful at that point, also
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able to manage the dangers we encounter. People who are
able to do that have a tendency to more so
like horror movies. The other thing here, and there's some
opposing research on this. It's a suggestion out there that
people who like horror movies tend to be less empathetic.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well that's a shame, you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There's some opposing research. Yeah, the jury is still out
on that, but that's been out there for a little while.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean, and people can say, you know, I don't
know what other people. You don't ever really have full
self awareness. I don't know how people would regard me,
but I do think I have had the ability, and
I would think you would have too, doing the jobs
that we do as journalists having to process. I think
police officers, a lot of first responders. Yes, you have empathy,
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but you have an ability to compartmentalize. So I do
feel like I have deep empathy when I can, and
then compassion. But I also have been and had to
be able to separate myself from some of the trauma
that has been around me that you have to report on,
that you have to intimately actually investigate as a journalist.
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So I do think I have the skill to detach,
but I don't think I'm a detached person. How do
you feel, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Again, some people will make arguments about this to say
people are less empathetic, the suggestion that you can look
up on screen and I guess you, I guess you
don't feel as much of a not necessarily feel sorry
for the scenario that you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, I can separate art from reality.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But thats suggestion. That's why some people got bored by
the ID to call people less empathetic seems wild, but
no to I like it the way the other put it,
that you're able to achieve psychological detachment. I know what
I'm watching, I know where I am, I know what
I'm doing, and I am enjoying this experience. And you
mentioned discussed earlier, that's the one part of movies, according
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to research, that people don't ever enjoy. Right, there are
some part that there's right, there's a terrible killing, and
there's a terrible scenario, there's a big people get aimed,
and all kinds of stuff. You can still find some
way in the fear to enjoy the experience when people
see disgust and stuff that grosses them out. That is
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the one part of horror movie is that people universally take.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You don't like body horror, which is very much what
you just described. And I feel like the audio that
goes along with the body horror really schevs me out.
Like yes, like the cutting, the slicing, the blood, I
don't like any of that. That is a little bit
too much for me as well. I don't like to
be disgusted, Like I said, I don't like I don't
like torture, so I think it would go along with that.
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I don't I don't enjoy watching that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, we told you, folks, we are going to give
you a movie a day for the entire month of October.
The list is not going to include all the obvious ones,
but we when we come back, will point out here
at least give a nod to the obvious ones. And
I'm sure some of you all are going to have
a problem and say we left something out. And also
one other thing. When we come back, I'm gonna hit
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you with why the adrenaline fueled fight or flight response
in the movie theater is something we keep going back
for over and over again. All right, welcome back, folks.
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You can continue to listen to two horror movie nuts here.
It's almost we like we want to recruit people to
the cause.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I do. I do, I have always tried to. I
want people to enjoy it the way I do. I
want to bring people along. We're horror evangelists.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, this is the best way as horror evangelists we
can put it. And again, research I did, I think
I said this to your baby. I think I did
too deep of a dot, like I was getting lost
in all this research and whatnot. But this is the
best way. I heard put it, heard put it, heard
it put When you're in a movie, what you are
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experiencing in a horror movie is an adrenaline field, an
adrenaline fueled fight or flight response to an attack. Your body,
your brain thinks there is an attack going on you.
Your whole body reacts in that fight or flight mode
as if you're out on the street running from a
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mass shooter or a fire scene or whatever it may be.
Your brain is doing that. That's what you're experiencing. But
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know you're safe.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
There's not many things in the world where that actually
could occur simultaneously or physiologically.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Going through that thing that's like intense. At the same
time you know you're safe, and that's just a rush.
It's almost like a roller coaster for us. We love
roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And so by what you're saying it makes sense. I
would say, I mean this, I am addicted to horror movies.
Like if you told me I could never watch another
horror movie again, I would be despondent. I we watch
a horror movie almost every day.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Oh, so you're right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We have Rush on and to my left there's oddity
two horror movies.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Hush, he said, rush Rush is there a movie. There's
a thing called rush hour.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Rush. I think that was a that was a race
car movie.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, anything rush over there. What I'm saying is we
always have something on. I even complained earlier, like what's
wrong with us? That we had a horror movie on
in the front of the house and we hear a
woman screaming on the TV in the back end the liveary.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We had to go turn it off because we were
record an episode, and we probably thought it wasn't good
to have a woman screaming in the background on the television.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
But that's our.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
White noise almost. It's just we have horror movies on
in the background. Yes, we love them that much, and
we love them we want other people to experience it.
That's why we're talking about it all the time. Here, though,
are the obvious ones. Again, we're giving you one a
day starting what tomorrow, starting tomorrow, starting tomorrow, give you
one a day counting down to Halloween. But these are
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some of the I think obvious classics. How many man
looks like we got twenty or so here, but we
get through. You can't stop, ye, I mean you can't
really start without alien Yes it was nineteen seventy nine.
Sigourney Weaver becomes a megastar they end up with at
least there was a trilogy. They ended up doing another
at least one, maybe two. But this is one of
the most successful horror franchises and most respected ever.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Nineteen seventy nine Alien.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know a lot of people. I I kind of
a partial Alien. The second the sequel Aliens.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh, I love the original Alien without a doubt. And
then of course I feel like one of the original
most incredible horror movies Psycho nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What was the scene. There's history in there with that
something out of the shower scene, but yeah, that was
an incredible I could watch that anytime. You see that,
and we think, like this movie would be over today
because just if somebody had a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh my goodness. Every single horror movie out there now
has to deal with the fact that technology exists, and
so they always have to create a scenario in which
there's no cell phone service, the phone gets broken, they're
in a remote area. Watch every modern horror movie and
almost right away they have to establish that there's no
phone signal. Anybody signal it every time. So we look
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at each other and we laugh because they have to
do it now.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
They have to do it also Saw that was two
thousand and four. They've gotten ten movies out of.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This carry el was and that original Saw. Oh, and
that is torture. But couldn't stop watching it. But that
was excruciatingly good. Is the best way, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
One of the newer classics, if you will, that we
have on the list.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes, this one, Oh my goodness, the Exorcist the year
of my birth, nineteen seventy three. That is an oldie,
but a goodie I can. I mean, have you ever
taken a picture and you see some sort of a
shadow or a light going through your neck? And I
immediately think of the Exorcist? Right? Is that the Exorcist
when they foreshadow the deaths of folks when they take pictures?
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Or is that the omen? Am I screwing it up?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Wait a minute, I think you're am I'm screwing it up.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's the omen See, this is what happened. I get
confused the Exorcist. But obviously that was just the vomiting
and the head spinning around. So it's actually I'm trying
to think of it right now.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You gotta see that one. Children of the Core in
nineteen eighty four, what's the kid's name?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Malachi Malack?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I will always think Malachi, But what the head kid?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Malachi scared me more than the red headed.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, he was scary as I'll get out. But this
is a that was a Stephen King, right, Yes, okay,
how many? I wonder how many on here of steering there.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Are several of them? Child's nineteen eighty eight. It's funny.
I had written down we were making this list Chucky,
and then I realized, wait, it's not called Chucky, it's
child's play.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And again that spawned all kinds of spinoffs and all
kind they had, Bride of Chucky even, yes, was a movie,
yesing Gangbusters your first, right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
My first? Nineteen eighty two Poltergeist, I so, yes, I
was nine years old, so I watched it as soon
as it came on HBO. So that movie there here.
I sweated for years, staring at my closet, making sure
it was shut, making sure I checked my closet. That
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and then clowns. That started my fear of clowns because
of that little clown that you just heard the footsteps.
And then thunderstorms one one thousand and two, one thousand
and three one thousand with the tree and trees.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, that thing would turn you off to your whole childhood.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It basically scared me. And yet I wanted more.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Didn't you want to sit in chairs and watch TV?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Because after Polter Guys, the next horror movie I watched
was the next one on our list, Nightmare on Elm Street.
Then I couldn't go to sleep, I couldn't dream.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That was That movie was mean. I mean what it
did to kids, You're scared to go. You literally are
a wait a minute, is this a real thing? Yeah?
That was a good, a perfect horror movie.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yes, Nightmare on Elm Street was beyond scary. Nineteen eighty four,
nineteen eighty four, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I can't remember how many sequels either.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So many. I know they continue to continue the shining,
the shining nineteen eighties, and I have seen how many
times have we seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, what he does and he see him descend
into match Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and that was that is Stephen King as well,
So yes, it's Stephen King. Yes, and then yes, I
just talked about the omen with the pictures, and yes,
when Gregor the stairs and the priests and oh my God,
how about It's All for You, Damien and she jumps
off of the I guess the fourth floor or whatever,
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hanging herself at his birthday party. But that movie is
so incredible, and actually we have watched every movie in
the series, including the most recent one at the First Omen,
and it was so amazing how they were able to
pick up They ended with that first scene of Gregory
Peck going to get the baby.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And to be clear, the movie is called the First Omen,
but it's the most recent OMEN picture.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's the prequel. It's the prequel to the original of
the nineteen seventy six one. But I would actually, if
you guys haven't seen it, I would encourage you to
watch the original OMEN with Gregory Peck and then and
then go back and watch the First Omen, or do
it in whatever order you want. But it's so well done.
It's so well done.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
The next two AVO obvious classics Friday the Thirteenth Halloween
to the most successful franchises in movie history. Those were
seventy eight was Halloween of course Jamie Lee, Curtis Michael
By superstardom, and in nineteen eighty was the First Friday
the Thirteenth the next one on the list here. I
guess maybe some would argue, is it a classic or
a cult classic?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's a cult classic. I think I know what you
did last summer nineteen ninety seven. It's so good. It
spawned so many careers. It's campy but also a little scary.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I liked that one. This most recent one it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Was not as good, but the most recent scream. I
loved the original stream nineteen ninety six Drew Barrymore. I
love that opening scene on the phone. It is so
so good. So they recreated that with this latest one,
and it is phenomenal. Jenna Ortega and she's been doing
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a lot of horror movies lately. We love her, but
maybe the Wednesday character has spawned that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, I don't want to sound don't think it sounds me.
She has a good look for it. She does pull
all like kind of a dark look with the dark hening.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But she's cute and you're rooting for her. Yes, Okay,
Obviously we have to talk about the conjuring that has
become a classic now and the juggernaut that it is.
If we had included all of the movies we love,
half of them would be in the Conjuring Family, so
we just had to put them all in this classics
and would love to give special love to Conjuring two,
(25:56):
Annabelle Creation and None too. Those are my probably three
favorites of the Conjuring Family, which is the.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Most now successful horror movie franchise in history. Next movie,
there's a sweet spot for us on those with nineteen
ninety two's candy Man the original Tony Todd. Of course
we just love who passed pretty recently the last several months.
But yeah, that's just now. That is a classic.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I can't go into a parking garage without thinking Candy
Man is going to be there with his hooked hand
and Cabrini Green Chicago, the whole setting, everything. It's such
a I didn't really love the remake. I know it
did well, but to me, the original was just the best,
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Of course, everybody knows Jaws fifteenth on the versary just happened.
That is a classic, dude, I mean that's a horror movie, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's oh my Dudham, Dunham.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It happens to be a fish and not a knife
wielding mast man.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It's a monster at least it was. Yes, it was
a monster. But anytime I watched a movie and it
made me change behaviors, Jaws one hundred percent is probably
the reason why I still have a fear of the ocean,
and I would say a healthy fear of the ocean,
because there are shark sharks in there, and I know
they're not all monsters, but I'm just I feel like
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better safe than sorry.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I would say none of them a monster.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
None of them are monsters, of course. Stephen King again, right,
it nineteen ninety. I had to be reminded this was
a television mini series originally, but I saw it for
the first time on BHS, so I forgot about that.
But yes, it that original.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yeah, don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It messed with me because I read the book and
loved it. Then I watched this, and obviously it reinstilled
my fear of clowns. Pennywise, they all float down there.
But John Boy, you probably didn't watch The Waltons growing up,
but I did. John Boy suddenly is thrust into this
horror movie. I thought it was such a fun little
twist to see someone who was normally you know, in
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a non life threatening storyline suddenly is in it and
was basically the poster child of that movie. So loved
it right.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Twenty eight days two thousand and two. They just a
sequel not too long ago, but well that was this year.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was this year twenty eight years later.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Later, So a heck of a sequel. But that thing,
it certainly has legs to it. The American Werewolf in London.
American Werewolf in London, I should say that was in
nineteen eighty one. But again that got a lot of
credit for I guess being pretty cool and innovative in
the way they used makeup, in the way he changed
into that where well, if that was cool. But nineteen
sixty eight, this is maybe Robes the one. I mean,
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some people might have put it in the top five
some of the maybe one of the greatest horror movies
of all time.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow so so so good. Loved it,
you know, I just realized because I always think of
when I think of Mia Farrow, I always think of
Sissy SPACEK two, which reminds me of Carrie, which is
another another Stephen King movie around the same time. That
one was so scary as well.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
On the list as well. Many people probably haven't seen
it but you should check it out. It's a silent movie,
but it is considered one of the greatest horror movies
of all time, really genre defining, and maybe even the
best horror movie of all time. Nosferatu from nineteen twenty
to a silent movie. It's essentially the story of Dracula.
This was an original and I love, love, love this movie.
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It's different if you just embrace and experience it. It
is really cool to see what they did with movie
making and the makeup at that time. Nineteen This wasn't eighty.
I got that. That must be nineteen ninety Misery.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, I think nineteen ninety Misery again another Stephen King,
he is the mastermind of horror. But yes, that with
Kathy Bates and just such such a good film. Could
watch that. I've watched that so many times. I've seen
the next one at least ten times. Silence of the
Lambs nineteen ninety one, Anthony Hopkins and Jody Foster at
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some of their best.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You know what I might do?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I have this right, I'm gonna say it out loud
and I'll converm it later. But I do believe this
is the only horror movie they ever win an Oscar.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That makes well, no, because actually the most recent one,
the South Korean Parasite.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
That's considered hard.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's a horror movie I ever saw that. You haven't
it's so good. That is that horror movie. Absolutely one
best picture. Yes, oh, I'll watch it with you.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
The Ring I loved the Ring. That was Australian actress
blonde Naomi Watts. I this one scared me to death.
I didn't want to watch any DVD or any VHS
tape that was handed to me. I needed to know
where it came from and needed to be sourced. This
movie freaked me out. In two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Then of course you had The Evil Dead. That series
has been going on since nineteen eighty one. They've had
several big gaps in between sequels. I think they've only
done five since nineteen eighty one, but they are all
worth checking out. But nineteen eighty one was the original
and the most recent Evil Dead Rise. Well, I mean,
your daughters are adults, and they stopped watching within ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
This is a true story, and they love horror movies.
I had been telling them about how unbelievably scary and gripping.
I mean, your whole body hurts because you're so intensely watching.
They were on a plane. They both started watching within
five minutes like nope, and they turned it off. They're like,
not gonna watch anymore. It was too scary. And then
we have to talk about the Insidious series because they were.
(31:07):
Patrick Wilson is also just getting I want to give
them a huge nod for the conjuring Insidious. All of
those films so good, but Insidious number two is my fave.
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yes, of course, Insidious too.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yes, of course it is. It's so good with that
Red Door. The last one wasn't quite as good, but
go for Insidious too. If you want to jump in.
You don't have to watch the first one.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Those are the classics, if you will, that are not
going to be included in our daily list. So we
want to at least give love and give acknowledgement to those.
So folks try it this month. We're going to give
you a different one every day, and it's going to
be a different flavor every day. Some of them aren't
so gory, some of them are supernatural. Some you better
have a strong stomach. Others are a little funny. It's
(31:46):
going to be something in there for everybody. We're going
to try to give you a description of it. This
is for a date night, This is one to introduce
your kids to. This is one maybe your mom might like.
Whatever it may be, so we are looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yes, So please join us as we count down to
Halloween for some of the scariest movies you might not
have heard of, but we hope you'll check them out
after checking out our podcast. So with that, thank you
for listening. Everybody. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We
will talk to you soon.
Hey, they're folks. It is Monday, October first, and there
are two kinds of people in the world, those who
love horror movies and those who don't. Which one are
you and what does it say about you? Welcome to
this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This is sometimes
the only time of year some people even entertain the
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idea of a horror movie. What is the thing they
say about us most a horror movie fans. They think
something's wrong with They.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Think we're sick, we're deviant, we have a fascination with
the abomination. They question our ethics. I mean, I definitely
have had people because I have been a horror movie
fan since I can remember. I believe my first horror movie.
I don't believe. I know my first horror movie was Poltergeist.
In second grade. I sneaked to a neighbor's house who
(00:53):
had HBO to watch it, and I was hooked from
that moment on. So what does that say about me?
I've had plenty of people, I'm sure judge me, Rick,
We're crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They think something is wrong with us, and some people
can stomach a horror movie or two. We are I
give it to it. We're a little on the extreme side.
We are we wouldn't call ourselves experts. Well, we're something
of aficionados. We watch more horror movies and we know
more about them than most people.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I would talk to you, yes, one hundred percent, and
I would say ninety eight percent of the time we
go to the movies, and we go to the movies
at least once a month, but sometimes more. It is
to see a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, So we talk about horror movies quite a bit.
Anytime we see a new and we see every big
one that comes out, we talk about it on the podcast.
But this time, for the month of Oktober, we are
gonna celebrate horror movies and we're gonna help some of
you folks out. We're gonna in this episode at least
explain a little bit of the science, the psychology, your
personality traits, what is contributing to you liking or not
liking horror movies. That is absolutely fascinating. You're gonna want
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to hear what kind of person you are. But also
we are gonna count down this month. We're gonna give
you a different horror movie every single day of the
month of October, and these aren't gonna be the obvious ones,
not the classics that everybody know. It's not gonna throw
a Halloween or a Friday thirteenth, that's you know. These
are some of the more deep cuts, if you will.
(02:13):
These are some of the ones that only a true
horror movie fan would be aware of. But they're good
movies that maybe you have never heard of. We're excited
about this list, and we got thirty movies.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We could have done fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh, we could have done eighty. I think. Actually we
had a hard time whittling down the list. We're thinking
we'll save that for next year because the movies that
we're going to give you this month will be from
all different from different decades, different subgenres of horror movies,
and not all highly reviewed. Some of them have a
very high Rotten Tomato score and some of them have
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a fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But we like that and we recommend every single one
gets absolutely all recommendation. But why in the first place,
roapes There is a lot of study that has been
done on this over the years, not all of a consensus,
but it gives you an idea and some insights into
why we like horror movies.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why would anybody?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Right, we're talking about fear, anxiety, dread. Those are negative emotions?
Are they not discussed?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sometimes?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yes, that's the.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
One that you have to throw in there as well.
That's a big deal. We'll talk about why would you Well, okay,
I'll ask you personally, why do you go to the
movie and put yourself in a position to do things
that we normally consider awful?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because there are a couple of reasons. I had to
think about it. It just came naturally to me. I'll
have to say, I didn't have to think about it.
I didn't have to talk myself into it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I just be a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Naturally liked it. And I will have to say both
of my daughters were the exact same way, where they
were fascinated with Harry Potter, then they wanted to watch
Conjuring and they were young. I have a I am
a thrill seeker. I have always loved the rush of adrenaline.
It's why I almost certainly probably gravitated towards the news
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and journalism because there was an excitement and a thrill
and breaking news. So it falls into that same sort
of personality for me where I'm always rushing to the
to get the adrenaline, rush to do something daring, to
feel that thrill. But I love a horror movie because
I can feel all of those things, fear, adrenaline, But
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I'm perfectly safe sitting in a movie theater or on
my count.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I didn't plan on starting with this direction, but you
directed me exactly to this point. Who are the type
of people that like horror movie is one of the
top things. People who have a high sense of sensation seeking. Yes,
you call it thrill seeking. They use the term sensation seeking.
Folks who are looking for some type over rush, who
are looking for a thrill of some kind. Yes, it
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plays into why you ride roller coasters as well. This
was a great line from one study. Listen to this,
and I didn't let you in on a lot of this.
And you saw me almost falling out of my seat, like, baby,
this is gonna be so good.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, you wouldn't let me, Like, don't look at any research.
Let me guide this because you're going to be wowed.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, here's how one researcher put it, and I'm quoting
individuals thought to be high sensation seekers would experience much
more positive emotion when highly aroused and stimulated, and would
seek negative stimulation to maximize their arousal because this stimulation
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was intense. It's saying that the negative experience is such
a rush that you will run to that even though
it's negative.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, I mean you've seen me when things start getting
really tense in a movie theater, I will partially close
my like put my hands over my face so that
I feel safe. But I'm still looking through my hands.
I'm not in jeopardy of anything, and yet I feel
that excitement of ooh, well, I don't want to look,
but I'm looking. I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It goes on robes here. It is a negative stimulus,
such as a horror film, might therefore be interpreted by
a person high in sensation seeking such as yourself, as
being very positive, but a person low in sensation seeking
would find the stimulus a horror movie unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So it has a lot to do with your personality
what you seek out. Even though you might be a
thrill seeker and looking to have fun and climb a
mountain or do a roller coaster that's associated with fun,
you also just the excitement, the energy, and a drilling
you feel you'll go get it anywhere, even if it's
watching some horrible stuff on TV.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, because I know it's not real. Look, I will you.
I have said this, and I and I feel like
you're the same. I don't like watching torture. I don't
like things that are drawn out and excruciating that bothers me.
And if any thing mimics something that is too close
to real life, I also don't love that either. So
(07:09):
I gravitate like I think that's why I love Supernatural.
I love a monster, I love all of that kind
of thing because I feel safe. I have joked that
maybe I like the extra thrill of Supernatural because there
are no locks to keep the devil out, you know,
so that also, and that has bitten me in the butt.
(07:30):
Sometimes when I've been alone in a hotel room and
an old hotel, I'd be like, why do I watch
horror movies? Why? As I'm sweating at like the age
of forty five, alone in a hotel room, barely sleeping
because I watched something the night before that now was
keeping me up all night long.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And the things that keep you up are never because
you saw a movie that had to do with bodygore,
nuts or that kind of torture. It was all some spirit.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's supernatural. Anything supernatural that stays with me. I actually
was in a hotel a couple months ago and they
had these old armchairs just sitting towards the bed, and
it was an old hotel from the eighteen hundreds in Colorado,
and I had to actually throw my suitcase on it,
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and then I thought, no, it looks like someone's sitting there.
I've had to take coat hangers off of racks because
I feel like it's going to look like someone standing
over my bed. Like this is what I do so
that I can keep enjoying movies.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, but stimulation is a big reason why you're sitting
in there, and you are being stimulated mentally and physically. Yes, physically,
your heart rate goes up, sometimes you start sweating, you
have sweaty palms, you have a physical reaction to it,
and you're breathing hard. That's a stimulation. Now, your mental
stimulation fear and anxiety. It sounds like a bad thing,
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but you also get from that excitement because the anticipation
of the moment, you're already enjoying that the moment comes boom.
That's the climax to it, and then when it's over,
you come down and enjoy that as well. It's a
cycle that you and I know well. Anticipation, fear, relief,
repeat isn't not the same in every horror movie.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is. And you know what's cool about that is
you you mentioned the moment. You are in the moment
when I am watching something that's that exciting and that thrilling,
I am not thinking about what I have to do tomorrow.
I'm not thinking about what I screwed up today. I
am not doing any of that future casting. I am
in the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, you are truly a horror movie Officionado because another
big part you've guided me to the next thing I
was going to talk. I swear I didn't look you didn't.
But this is another part of why folks that love
horror movies love horror movies, because it is as you
were explaining, it's immersive. You are in it with anticipation,
(09:50):
You're in the edge of your seat, You're following on
with this character, you are experiencing the same terror that
character is. And yes, you have to be there and
immersed in the moment. You watch other movies you experience
horror movies. I don't didn't really think, what is the
only thing you have to go see with somebody?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Horror?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The horror movie I would do.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I have never. I've watched a horror movie by myself
at home, and I've done that and regretted it because
I've been really scary.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This. You have to because it is an experience.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It is a I want to share it experience with somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And honestly, you we've talked about this before, but this
was a huge connection that you and I had because
when you find someone else who loves horror movies, it's
like this immediate kinship. So I have it with a couple.
I can tell you Sarah Haynes loves horror movies. I
can tell you that Lester Holt loves horror movies because
every time we would see something, we go did you
see this? Did you check this out? And Sarah and
(10:51):
I would go to some of these movies together and
if you I've tried to bring along people who don't
like it, and I'm like, you're gonna love this one,
and they hate it and they hate it even more
and they're mad at me for going so I'm like,
all right, fine, never come again.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The other things reasons people watch. You've talked about this
privately before plenty escapism, right, it allows you to detach
from your every day all that's going on in the
world right now. It's crazy to think, yeah, let me
go watch somebody get slaughtered on in a movie to
get away from it. But yes, it is escapism. You
know it's not real. You can actually detach from it,
so that's fun. Also, it's an out of this world experience,
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meaning I can watch a zombie apocalypse that's not really
gonna happen to me, but you can still relate to
the characters, put yourself in it, and people seem to
enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It feels I love that because that's so true. It
feels like you're in an altar universe. I remember I
was so immersed. This wasn't a movie, but I was
so immersed into the Walking Dead series that I watched
so many in a row. I remember I walked outside
and I thought that I might see a zombie. But
how fun is that? I mean, obviously, intellectually I knew
I wasn't going to see one, but there was a
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part of me that I had to catch myself, like, wait, no,
I'm in the real world now, there isn't going to
be a zombie coming after me. But I thought that
was so cool that maybe that was even in my head,
that I was living in a fantasy for a little while,
and it felt kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The other people who like horror movies, no surprise, but
at least the studies and whatnot they've seen, usually younger
folks and usually more so men than women, and men
and women seem to sometimes have a different reaction to
movies horror movie. They might watch the same movie get
satisfaction out of that movie for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's funny because a lot of people who I know
who are couples, either one of them loves them and
the other one doesn't, and they always have a hard
time because they can never bring their significant other with
them too. So I remember always having like this like
hodge Podge group of people who couldn't bring their spouses
because no, their spouses didn't want to watch, and like
ran away from the theater. So we would just kind
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of collect ourselves, those us misfits who love horror movies.
It's funny. My brother and I don't have a lot
in comment, but this is the one thing we really
have in comment.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, the other thing, the people who like horror movies
tend to have an openness to experiences. According to some research. Also,
they're able I just mentioned, is able to achieve psychological detachment.
Meaning you're watching a movie, you're seeing a guy in
a mask running towards somebody with clown shoes and a knife.
There's probably not going to happen to you. You're able
to separate enough act necessarily fearful at that point, also
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able to manage the dangers we encounter. People who are
able to do that have a tendency to more so
like horror movies. The other thing here, and there's some
opposing research on this. It's a suggestion out there that
people who like horror movies tend to be less empathetic.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well that's a shame, you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There's some opposing research. Yeah, the jury is still out
on that, but that's been out there for a little while.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I mean, and people can say, you know, I don't
know what other people. You don't ever really have full
self awareness. I don't know how people would regard me,
but I do think I have had the ability, and
I would think you would have too, doing the jobs
that we do as journalists having to process. I think
police officers, a lot of first responders. Yes, you have empathy,
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but you have an ability to compartmentalize. So I do
feel like I have deep empathy when I can, and
then compassion. But I also have been and had to
be able to separate myself from some of the trauma
that has been around me that you have to report on,
that you have to intimately actually investigate as a journalist.
(14:27):
So I do think I have the skill to detach,
but I don't think I'm a detached person. How do
you feel, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Again, some people will make arguments about this to say
people are less empathetic, the suggestion that you can look
up on screen and I guess you, I guess you
don't feel as much of a not necessarily feel sorry
for the scenario that you're seeing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, I can separate art from reality.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But thats suggestion. That's why some people got bored by
the ID to call people less empathetic seems wild, but
no to I like it the way the other put it,
that you're able to achieve psychological detachment. I know what
I'm watching, I know where I am, I know what
I'm doing, and I am enjoying this experience. And you
mentioned discussed earlier, that's the one part of movies, according
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to research, that people don't ever enjoy. Right, there are
some part that there's right, there's a terrible killing, and
there's a terrible scenario, there's a big people get aimed,
and all kinds of stuff. You can still find some
way in the fear to enjoy the experience when people
see disgust and stuff that grosses them out. That is
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the one part of horror movie is that people universally take.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You don't like body horror, which is very much what
you just described. And I feel like the audio that
goes along with the body horror really schevs me out.
Like yes, like the cutting, the slicing, the blood, I
don't like any of that. That is a little bit
too much for me as well. I don't like to
be disgusted, Like I said, I don't like I don't
like torture, so I think it would go along with that.
(15:59):
I don't I don't enjoy watching that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, we told you, folks, we are going to give
you a movie a day for the entire month of October.
The list is not going to include all the obvious ones,
but we when we come back, will point out here
at least give a nod to the obvious ones. And
I'm sure some of you all are going to have
a problem and say we left something out. And also
one other thing. When we come back, I'm gonna hit
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you with why the adrenaline fueled fight or flight response
in the movie theater is something we keep going back
for over and over again. All right, welcome back, folks.
(16:47):
You can continue to listen to two horror movie nuts here.
It's almost we like we want to recruit people to
the cause.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I do. I do, I have always tried to. I
want people to enjoy it the way I do. I
want to bring people along. We're horror evangelists.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, this is the best way as horror evangelists we
can put it. And again, research I did, I think
I said this to your baby. I think I did
too deep of a dot, like I was getting lost
in all this research and whatnot. But this is the
best way. I heard put it, heard put it, heard
it put When you're in a movie, what you are
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experiencing in a horror movie is an adrenaline field, an
adrenaline fueled fight or flight response to an attack. Your body,
your brain thinks there is an attack going on you.
Your whole body reacts in that fight or flight mode
as if you're out on the street running from a
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mass shooter or a fire scene or whatever it may be.
Your brain is doing that. That's what you're experiencing. But
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know you're safe.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
There's not many things in the world where that actually
could occur simultaneously or physiologically.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Going through that thing that's like intense. At the same
time you know you're safe, and that's just a rush.
It's almost like a roller coaster for us. We love
roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And so by what you're saying it makes sense. I
would say, I mean this, I am addicted to horror movies.
Like if you told me I could never watch another
horror movie again, I would be despondent. I we watch
a horror movie almost every day.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Oh, so you're right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We have Rush on and to my left there's oddity
two horror movies.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Hush, he said, rush Rush is there a movie. There's
a thing called rush hour.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Rush. I think that was a that was a race
car movie.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, anything rush over there. What I'm saying is we
always have something on. I even complained earlier, like what's
wrong with us? That we had a horror movie on
in the front of the house and we hear a
woman screaming on the TV in the back end the liveary.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We had to go turn it off because we were
record an episode, and we probably thought it wasn't good
to have a woman screaming in the background on the television.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
But that's our.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
White noise almost. It's just we have horror movies on
in the background. Yes, we love them that much, and
we love them we want other people to experience it.
That's why we're talking about it all the time. Here, though,
are the obvious ones. Again, we're giving you one a
day starting what tomorrow, starting tomorrow, starting tomorrow, give you
one a day counting down to Halloween. But these are
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some of the I think obvious classics. How many man
looks like we got twenty or so here, but we
get through. You can't stop, ye, I mean you can't
really start without alien Yes it was nineteen seventy nine.
Sigourney Weaver becomes a megastar they end up with at
least there was a trilogy. They ended up doing another
at least one, maybe two. But this is one of
the most successful horror franchises and most respected ever.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Nineteen seventy nine Alien.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know a lot of people. I I kind of
a partial Alien. The second the sequel Aliens.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh, I love the original Alien without a doubt. And
then of course I feel like one of the original
most incredible horror movies Psycho nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What was the scene. There's history in there with that
something out of the shower scene, but yeah, that was
an incredible I could watch that anytime. You see that,
and we think, like this movie would be over today
because just if somebody had a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh my goodness. Every single horror movie out there now
has to deal with the fact that technology exists, and
so they always have to create a scenario in which
there's no cell phone service, the phone gets broken, they're
in a remote area. Watch every modern horror movie and
almost right away they have to establish that there's no
phone signal. Anybody signal it every time. So we look
(20:43):
at each other and we laugh because they have to
do it now.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
They have to do it also Saw that was two
thousand and four. They've gotten ten movies out of.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This carry el was and that original Saw. Oh, and
that is torture. But couldn't stop watching it. But that
was excruciatingly good. Is the best way, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
One of the newer classics, if you will, that we
have on the list.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes, this one, Oh my goodness, the Exorcist the year
of my birth, nineteen seventy three. That is an oldie,
but a goodie I can. I mean, have you ever
taken a picture and you see some sort of a
shadow or a light going through your neck? And I
immediately think of the Exorcist? Right? Is that the Exorcist
when they foreshadow the deaths of folks when they take pictures?
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Or is that the omen? Am I screwing it up?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Wait a minute, I think you're am I'm screwing it up.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's the omen See, this is what happened. I get
confused the Exorcist. But obviously that was just the vomiting
and the head spinning around. So it's actually I'm trying
to think of it right now.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You gotta see that one. Children of the Core in
nineteen eighty four, what's the kid's name?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Malachi Malack?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I will always think Malachi, But what the head kid?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Malachi scared me more than the red headed.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, he was scary as I'll get out. But this
is a that was a Stephen King, right, Yes, okay,
how many? I wonder how many on here of steering there.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Are several of them? Child's nineteen eighty eight. It's funny.
I had written down we were making this list Chucky,
and then I realized, wait, it's not called Chucky, it's
child's play.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And again that spawned all kinds of spinoffs and all
kind they had, Bride of Chucky even, yes, was a movie,
yesing Gangbusters your first, right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
My first? Nineteen eighty two Poltergeist, I so, yes, I
was nine years old, so I watched it as soon
as it came on HBO. So that movie there here.
I sweated for years, staring at my closet, making sure
it was shut, making sure I checked my closet. That
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and then clowns. That started my fear of clowns because
of that little clown that you just heard the footsteps.
And then thunderstorms one one thousand and two, one thousand
and three one thousand with the tree and trees.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, that thing would turn you off to your whole childhood.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It basically scared me. And yet I wanted more.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Didn't you want to sit in chairs and watch TV?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Because after Polter Guys, the next horror movie I watched
was the next one on our list, Nightmare on Elm Street.
Then I couldn't go to sleep, I couldn't dream.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That was That movie was mean. I mean what it
did to kids, You're scared to go. You literally are
a wait a minute, is this a real thing? Yeah?
That was a good, a perfect horror movie.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yes, Nightmare on Elm Street was beyond scary. Nineteen eighty four,
nineteen eighty four, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I can't remember how many sequels either.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So many. I know they continue to continue the shining,
the shining nineteen eighties, and I have seen how many
times have we seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, what he does and he see him descend
into match Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and that was that is Stephen King as well,
So yes, it's Stephen King. Yes, and then yes, I
just talked about the omen with the pictures, and yes,
when Gregor the stairs and the priests and oh my God,
how about It's All for You, Damien and she jumps
off of the I guess the fourth floor or whatever,
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hanging herself at his birthday party. But that movie is
so incredible, and actually we have watched every movie in
the series, including the most recent one at the First Omen,
and it was so amazing how they were able to
pick up They ended with that first scene of Gregory
Peck going to get the baby.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And to be clear, the movie is called the First Omen,
but it's the most recent OMEN picture.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's the prequel. It's the prequel to the original of
the nineteen seventy six one. But I would actually, if
you guys haven't seen it, I would encourage you to
watch the original OMEN with Gregory Peck and then and
then go back and watch the First Omen, or do
it in whatever order you want. But it's so well done.
It's so well done.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
The next two AVO obvious classics Friday the Thirteenth Halloween
to the most successful franchises in movie history. Those were
seventy eight was Halloween of course Jamie Lee, Curtis Michael
By superstardom, and in nineteen eighty was the First Friday
the Thirteenth the next one on the list here. I
guess maybe some would argue, is it a classic or
a cult classic?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's a cult classic. I think I know what you
did last summer nineteen ninety seven. It's so good. It
spawned so many careers. It's campy but also a little scary.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I liked that one. This most recent one it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Was not as good, but the most recent scream. I
loved the original stream nineteen ninety six Drew Barrymore. I
love that opening scene on the phone. It is so
so good. So they recreated that with this latest one,
and it is phenomenal. Jenna Ortega and she's been doing
(25:25):
a lot of horror movies lately. We love her, but
maybe the Wednesday character has spawned that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, I don't want to sound don't think it sounds me.
She has a good look for it. She does pull
all like kind of a dark look with the dark hening.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But she's cute and you're rooting for her. Yes, Okay,
Obviously we have to talk about the conjuring that has
become a classic now and the juggernaut that it is.
If we had included all of the movies we love,
half of them would be in the Conjuring Family, so
we just had to put them all in this classics
and would love to give special love to Conjuring two,
(25:56):
Annabelle Creation and None too. Those are my probably three
favorites of the Conjuring Family, which is the.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Most now successful horror movie franchise in history. Next movie,
there's a sweet spot for us on those with nineteen
ninety two's candy Man the original Tony Todd. Of course
we just love who passed pretty recently the last several months.
But yeah, that's just now. That is a classic.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I can't go into a parking garage without thinking Candy
Man is going to be there with his hooked hand
and Cabrini Green Chicago, the whole setting, everything. It's such
a I didn't really love the remake. I know it
did well, but to me, the original was just the best,
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Of course, everybody knows Jaws fifteenth on the versary just happened.
That is a classic, dude, I mean that's a horror movie, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's oh my Dudham, Dunham.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It happens to be a fish and not a knife
wielding mast man.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It's a monster at least it was. Yes, it was
a monster. But anytime I watched a movie and it
made me change behaviors, Jaws one hundred percent is probably
the reason why I still have a fear of the ocean,
and I would say a healthy fear of the ocean,
because there are shark sharks in there, and I know
they're not all monsters, but I'm just I feel like
(27:13):
better safe than sorry.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I would say none of them a monster.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
None of them are monsters, of course. Stephen King again, right,
it nineteen ninety. I had to be reminded this was
a television mini series originally, but I saw it for
the first time on BHS, so I forgot about that.
But yes, it that original.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yeah, don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It messed with me because I read the book and
loved it. Then I watched this, and obviously it reinstilled
my fear of clowns. Pennywise, they all float down there.
But John Boy, you probably didn't watch The Waltons growing up,
but I did. John Boy suddenly is thrust into this
horror movie. I thought it was such a fun little
twist to see someone who was normally you know, in
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a non life threatening storyline suddenly is in it and
was basically the poster child of that movie. So loved
it right.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Twenty eight days two thousand and two. They just a
sequel not too long ago, but well that was this year.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was this year twenty eight years later.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Later, So a heck of a sequel. But that thing,
it certainly has legs to it. The American Werewolf in London.
American Werewolf in London, I should say that was in
nineteen eighty one. But again that got a lot of
credit for I guess being pretty cool and innovative in
the way they used makeup, in the way he changed
into that where well, if that was cool. But nineteen
sixty eight, this is maybe Robes the one. I mean,
(28:25):
some people might have put it in the top five
some of the maybe one of the greatest horror movies
of all time.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow so so so good. Loved it,
you know, I just realized because I always think of
when I think of Mia Farrow, I always think of
Sissy SPACEK two, which reminds me of Carrie, which is
another another Stephen King movie around the same time. That
one was so scary as well.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
On the list as well. Many people probably haven't seen
it but you should check it out. It's a silent movie,
but it is considered one of the greatest horror movies
of all time, really genre defining, and maybe even the
best horror movie of all time. Nosferatu from nineteen twenty
to a silent movie. It's essentially the story of Dracula.
This was an original and I love, love, love this movie.
(29:10):
It's different if you just embrace and experience it. It
is really cool to see what they did with movie
making and the makeup at that time. Nineteen This wasn't eighty.
I got that. That must be nineteen ninety Misery.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, I think nineteen ninety Misery again another Stephen King,
he is the mastermind of horror. But yes, that with
Kathy Bates and just such such a good film. Could
watch that. I've watched that so many times. I've seen
the next one at least ten times. Silence of the
Lambs nineteen ninety one, Anthony Hopkins and Jody Foster at
(29:43):
some of their best.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You know what I might do?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I have this right, I'm gonna say it out loud
and I'll converm it later. But I do believe this
is the only horror movie they ever win an Oscar.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That makes well, no, because actually the most recent one,
the South Korean Parasite.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
That's considered hard.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's a horror movie I ever saw that. You haven't
it's so good. That is that horror movie. Absolutely one
best picture. Yes, oh, I'll watch it with you.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
The Ring I loved the Ring. That was Australian actress
blonde Naomi Watts. I this one scared me to death.
I didn't want to watch any DVD or any VHS
tape that was handed to me. I needed to know
where it came from and needed to be sourced. This
movie freaked me out. In two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Then of course you had The Evil Dead. That series
has been going on since nineteen eighty one. They've had
several big gaps in between sequels. I think they've only
done five since nineteen eighty one, but they are all
worth checking out. But nineteen eighty one was the original
and the most recent Evil Dead Rise. Well, I mean,
your daughters are adults, and they stopped watching within ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
This is a true story, and they love horror movies.
I had been telling them about how unbelievably scary and gripping.
I mean, your whole body hurts because you're so intensely watching.
They were on a plane. They both started watching within
five minutes like nope, and they turned it off. They're like,
not gonna watch anymore. It was too scary. And then
we have to talk about the Insidious series because they were.
(31:07):
Patrick Wilson is also just getting I want to give
them a huge nod for the conjuring Insidious. All of
those films so good, but Insidious number two is my fave.
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yes, of course, Insidious too.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yes, of course it is. It's so good with that
Red Door. The last one wasn't quite as good, but
go for Insidious too. If you want to jump in.
You don't have to watch the first one.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Those are the classics, if you will, that are not
going to be included in our daily list. So we
want to at least give love and give acknowledgement to those.
So folks try it this month. We're going to give
you a different one every day, and it's going to
be a different flavor every day. Some of them aren't
so gory, some of them are supernatural. Some you better
have a strong stomach. Others are a little funny. It's
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going to be something in there for everybody. We're going
to try to give you a description of it. This
is for a date night, This is one to introduce
your kids to. This is one maybe your mom might like.
Whatever it may be, so we are looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yes, So please join us as we count down to
Halloween for some of the scariest movies you might not
have heard of, but we hope you'll check them out
after checking out our podcast. So with that, thank you
for listening. Everybody. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We
will talk to you soon.
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