Horror Movies Can Be Good for Anxiety
There’s a science-backed reason why horror can calm people down
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5 min readOct 31, 2019
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Laura Turner was on a road trip in Iceland with her brother when she found an unconventional method to manage her anxiety: watching horror movies. “It Follows and The Thing provided a really great distraction from the reality of having just had a miscarriage; I could totally forget about my…