Why Horror? (2014)
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
- Date of release
- 2014-10-03
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Documentary, Horror
- Director
- Nicolas Kleiman, Rob Lindsay
Casting
- Tal Zimerman — Self
- Alexandre Aja — Self
- Simon Barrett — Self
- Joe Begos — Self
- John Carpenter — Self
- Don Coscarelli — Self
- Barbara Crampton — Self
- Álex de la Iglesia — Self
- Rodrigo Gudiño — Self
- David Hackl — Self
- Junji Inagawa — Self
- Josh Johnson — Self
Interesting facts
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.
Development
Initially Zimerman approached the directors with the intent to focus specifically on Toronto's horror scene, to which Kleiman and Lindsay asked "why only Toronto if that city is very small and horror very popular" and why Zimerman personally enjoyed the horror genre. Zimerman was unable to answer, which gave them the idea of focusing on the psychology of horror.
They chose to avoid focusing on heavy metal and rock music as they felt that it was "part of the greater subculture that doesn't necessarily apply to why we enjoy being scared". They also wanted to avoid covering material that had already been done in other documentaries that focused on how creative professionals scare people and while editing the film eliminated material that they did not feel dealt with the primary question of why people enjoy…
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