Horror (Movies) Can Be Your Happy Place

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:06.2	Hey there, folks. It is Monday, October 1st, and there are two kinds of people in the world.
0:12.6	Those who love horror movies and those who don't.
0:16.6	Which one are you?
0:18.5	And what does it say about you?
0:20.4	Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs.
0:24.8	This is sometimes the only time of year some people or even entertain the idea of a horror movie.
0:31.3	What is the thing they say about us most?
0:34.2	Us horror movie fans, they think something's wrong with us.
0:36.3	They think we're sick, we're deviant.
0:38.7	We have a fascination with the abomination.
0:42.0	They question our ethics.
0:44.1	I mean, I definitely have had people, because I had been a horror movie fan since I can remember.
0:50.4	I believe my first horror movie.
0:51.8	I don't believe I know my first horror movie was poltergeist in second grade. I sneaked to a neighbor's house who 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 for it. They think we're crazy. They think something is wrong with us. And some people can stomach a horror movie or two. We are, I give it to us. We're a little on the extreme side. We are, we wouldn't call ourselves experts, but we're something of aficionados. We watch more horror movies and we know more about them than most people I would argue. Yes.
1:23.1	A hundred percent. And I would say 98 percent of the time we go to the movies, we go to the movies at least once a month but sometimes more it is to see a horror movie 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 octuma we are going to celebrate horror movies and we're going to help some of you folks out we're going to in this episode at least explain a little bit of the
1:48.3	science, the psychology, your personality traits, what is contributing to you liking or not
1:53.8	liking horror movies. That is absolutely fascinating. You're going to want to hear what kind of person
1:58.6	you are. But also we are going to count down this month. We're going to give to hear what kind of person you are. But also, we are going to count down this
2:01.1	month. We're going to give you a different horror movie every single day of the month of October.
2:08.5	And these aren't going to be the obvious ones, not the classics that everybody knows, not going to
2:12.4	throw a Halloween or Friday to 13th at you. No, these are some of the more deep cuts if you will these are some of
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