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Stories about: thrills

Scary Is Popular Because It's Effective Researchers have wondered for a long time why people go out on Halloween night and search for scary thrills, such as horror movies, nasty costumes, haunted houses and so on. A new study throws some more light on this behavior. The investigation determined that most people search for these spine-chilling effects preci... 1 November 2010 05:51 GMT Why People Love Horror Movies Horror films are not the standard in cinema, and are sometimes considered to be something of a niche genre. In spite of this, they cash sufficiently large sums of money at the box office, and have dedicated fans that form strongly bound communities. In recent months, a number of horror movies have taken theaters by s... 7 November 2009 21:01 GMT