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Back in 2020, around six months into the pandemic, I found myself only able to tolerate horror films. I couldn’t handle all the emotions that came with watching my go-to romcoms and dramas, couldn’t handle the violence in action films and a lot of family films just made me miss my own even more.

I didn’t understand the comfort at the time, I just rolled with it. I’ve always enjoyed horror films, especially ones tied to folklore, so while I was in that headspace, I watched hundreds of them.

Most of them were great fun, some of them were so bad I laughed out loud, but all of them brought me a strange kind of comfort.

Now, Coltan Scrivner, a psychologist at Arizona State University, has shared in a review paper that........

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