Why Some People Love Horror Movies

One thing it can do for you is it helps you learn how to regulate those negative emotions. For example, in the early months of the pandemic, we did a study showing that horror fans were reporting greater psychological resilience when nobody really knew what was going on. Nobody had experienced a global pandemic or a lockdown or anything like that. It's possible that these horror fans are just better at dealing with scary, new experiences because they play with those kind of feelings all the time.