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The rise of horror and thriller movies is off the charts.

They've been rising as a genre within the film industry more than any other genre that there

is, more than action movies, more than

anything else you could possibly imagine. Now, what could account for this infatuation with

thrillers and horror movies? There's a lot of things that we could say to explain this

phenomenon. I think one reason is because young adults who go and watch movies

don't have families, right? For a long time, Christmas was always the biggest holiday that you

would see celebrated in the American tradition. Christmas and perhaps as a close second runner would be Thanksgiving.

These days, even in my own neighborhood, when I'm driving around, I'll see as many, if not more

decorations on people's houses at the time of Halloween than I see with Christmas.

Halloween has become kind of like the holiday for young adults who are stuck in perpetual

adolescence who never got married and never had kids. It's not a kid-friendly holiday. It's

something that adults celebrate. And I think that that's part of what explains this rise and

the genre of horror and thriller. But another reason is because I think guilty people are looking for some kind of vicarious atonement. We'll talk about that in this episode as well. There's always some scene in most horror movies where some promiscuous, sexually degenerate person is

decapitated or taken and tortured, and it's as though the person going into the movie knows that

that should be them. They know that they're guilty. They know that they have a guilty conscience,

but they don't actually want to be tortured themselves, and so vicariously they go and watch

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