Why Horror? (2014)

Directed by

Rob Lindsay, Nicolas Kleiman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores why people enjoy horror movies. It features interviews with horror icons and examines the psychology behind the appeal of fear.

curiousinsightfulconversationalacademicintrospectiveinformativepersonal

What happens

Why Horror? is a 2014 Canadian documentary film directed by Nicolas Kleiman and Rob Lindsay and written and co-produced by Lindsay. A work-in-progress draft of the film was screened in August 2014 at the Fantasia Festival and the official final version was screened on 3 October 2014 at the Feratum Film Festival. The documentary explores the psychology of the reasons why people enjoy the horror genre and includes interviews by several well-known horror icons. Funding for the film was partially raised by a successful Kickstarter campaign. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Late Night Double Feature (2014)
• Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror (2009)
• The Backward Class (2014)
• Novembre 84 (2014)
• Gore, Quebec (2014)
• Fake Blood (2017)
• L'Occupation du Bureau de surveillance du cinéma (2014)
• Wake Up! (2014)