neurothriller

It’s not just your imagination. Horror films are much more scary than they were in the past. Here’s how they do it.

Inspired in the essay by Patricia Pisters

Patricia Pisters is a professor of media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her most recent book is Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren (2015). She is organising a conference called ‘Worlding the Brain’ on neuroscience and the humanities in March 2016.

https://aeon.co/essays/horror-films-are-far-scarier-than-in-the-past-here-s-how