How to survive a horror movie
8 min readOct 30, 2019
Halloween 2020 edition
Once upon a time, my father the film professor wrote an academic research article analyzing the behavior of horror movie victims in the light of Darwinian theory. He titled it, “Don’t Do That, You Twit!”
It got published. Seriously. In an academic journal.
As I was the biggest horror-movie nerd within reach, Dad enlisted my help to edit and expand his research. Thus was born my personal list of how to survive a horror movie. Because you and I, dear reader: we’ve seen what happens when you don’t pay…
