Interesting read. My go to movies are anything with sharks, The Conjuring collection, especially the Nun series and Sinister. Never thought about is as a legitimate release valve.
Hereditary, Sinister, and Zodiac as comfort movies? That is the most unhinged feel-good list I've ever seen and I mean that with total respect.
I'm with you 100%. Horror trains the brain. There's something so weirdly calming about watching fictional chaos when your own anxiety is spiraling, when you are completely safe. Also, there is research that scary movies help to burn calories)
So interesting. I always plan on whacking on a cosy comedy when stressed, but I always end up retuning to those dark films - not even horrors normally. Something like The Killing of a Sacred Deer, or We Need to Talk About Kevin. It’s an emotional playground to exercise the anxiety, leaving me satisfied and suddenly very tired
Interesting read. My go to movies are anything with sharks, The Conjuring collection, especially the Nun series and Sinister. Never thought about is as a legitimate release valve.
Hereditary, Sinister, and Zodiac as comfort movies? That is the most unhinged feel-good list I've ever seen and I mean that with total respect.
I'm with you 100%. Horror trains the brain. There's something so weirdly calming about watching fictional chaos when your own anxiety is spiraling, when you are completely safe. Also, there is research that scary movies help to burn calories)
I find that strange movie like Lost Highway helps distract from anxiety.
So interesting. I always plan on whacking on a cosy comedy when stressed, but I always end up retuning to those dark films - not even horrors normally. Something like The Killing of a Sacred Deer, or We Need to Talk About Kevin. It’s an emotional playground to exercise the anxiety, leaving me satisfied and suddenly very tired
It’s not that horror reduces anxiety.
It gives it a shape.
Something you can enter, feel, and leave—
instead of something that just lives inside you.
I'd beg to differ since the morning after watching Oldboy was when I realized I have intense anxiety