Why Horror Movies are like Porn! Don't be a DOPE!

So I was listening to the BBC the other day and they were discussing a recent brouhaha over the horror movie genre – apparently somebody somewhere commented that perhaps horror movies were on their way out and then some movie producer somewhere tweeted something about getting support from the public for the horror movie industry. So the BBC picked up on this and found a couple of drug addicts who were huge horror movie fans and interviewed them on one of their shows and I just happened to be able to listen in – well – I had it playing in the background. But I really began paying attention when I heard that one of the drug addicts they were interviewing was a minister in England! The other was a woman. Now – why do I keep calling them drug addicts? Let me explain in a bit but check this out – when the minister was asked why he was such a fan of horror movies he said he supposed it goes to the result of evolution – the fight or flight response generated in the brain and the resulting rush he gets from that. And I couldn’t help wishing I could reach out to this minister and explain to him that fish-to-man deep-time evolution is a stinking corpse that atheists and atheist ditto-heads have strapped to the backs of David Attenborough and his ilk and recruited them to prance around the city square like a weekend at Bernies proclaiming “it’s not dead, it’s merely resting.” But anyway the reason I refer to them as drug addicts is the same reason I refer to people who watch porn and go to strip clubs as drug addicts. When a man sees a naked or partially clad woman an involuntary chemical release happens in the pleasure center of the brain… most notably dopamine! So if if we refer to porn watchers and strip club attendees as DOPES we wouldn’t be far off on that one. But check out this horror movie research which has been done by the science experts who study this stuff.