Filmmaker Spotlight: Tal Zimerman & Why Horror?

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Why do we watch horror movies? The aptly named documentary Why Horror? poses that very question to scholars, writers, artists, filmmakers and fans. The film follows comedian, horror journalist and our guest Tal Zimerman as he ventures around the world in an attempt to figure out why we love the grotesque and the terrifying. Why […]

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0:00.0	I think one of the great things about horror is that they really reflect what the fear of the moment is.
0:10.0	Everybody in the world is afraid. We're all afraid of the same things together.
0:18.0	It's a safe fright when you're in a movie and I think that enables you to sort of relish it to sort of enjoy it or
0:26.5	look into yourself and say why am I afraid of this? What is it about horror that
0:31.5	makes people react the way they do?
0:34.0	Millions of people love it and yet horror fans are often misunderstood.
0:38.0	My name is Tal Zimmerman and I love horror.
0:41.0	It's not just a hobby for me, it's a lifestyle.
0:45.6	I write reviews and articles for horror magazines.
0:49.0	I'm an obsessive collector of memorabilia.
0:52.2	I attend conventions as a fan and sometimes as a speaker.
0:57.0	Horror has come a long way since it first got its hooks in the movie.
1:03.0	As a devout fan, I used to feel like an outsider.
1:06.0	But nowadays, I look around, and horror is everywhere.
1:10.0	So now is the perfect time to dig deeper. I need to look beyond my own experiences.
1:16.0	I need to know. Why horror? Hello everyone and welcome to another mini episode of the Faculty of Horror.
1:29.0	I'm Andrea Subisati with Alex West and we are sitting down with Tal Zimmerman on the show today
1:36.3	who is a comedian he's a regular writer for Rumorg magazine as well as some
1:41.0	other horror outlets and he is the host of a documentary that we've
1:45.7	mentioned before on the podcast called Why Horror and Why Horror debuted at the
1:50.8	Feratum Film Festival in Mexico in October 2014 and it's a documentary looking at
1:57.0	just as the title states why horror why do people love horror why does horror
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