From Daniel Dresner,<br/>Manchester, UK
I don’t recognise the profiling of horror film fans suggested by Scrivner. There is a missing category: the staple thrill of hoping – or at least trying to work out – which character survives the zombies, razor-sharp pendulums, or the end of life as we know it, rather than morbid curiosity. I’d put myself in this category and would present a control for my experiment: my wife, who hates horror films. While I’m getting my fix, she watches true-crime shockers on an adjacent screen.
