Why Horror?
Directed by Nicolas Kleiman, Rob Lindsay
WHY HORROR is a feature length documentary following horror journalist Tal Zimerman as he looks at the psychology of horror around the world in order to understand why we love to be scared. Horror is a global phenomenon. Millions of people love it, yet horror fans are often misunderstood. Tal Zimerman should know. He is one of them. Tal is a Canadian journalist and a full-fledged fan of everything deep, dark and disgusting. But lately he’s been asking himself - Why?
Horror journalist Tal Zimerman looks at the psychology of horror around the world in order to understand why we love to be scared.
Cast: Tal Zimerman, Alexandre Aja, Eli Roth, John Carpenter
Member Reviews
I love things like this but this doc didn’t really cover any new ground. As horror fans we can probably all talk about why we think horror is fun/ important and all the points covered here were kind of “duh”. This is good to have on in the background while folding laundry but nothing revolutionary.
Interesting, but a bit uneven.
This documentary is bland and mediocre. This documentary brings nothing new to the table to what is already known surrounding the genre, horror. In my opinion, you should pass this documentary up. It will save you 80 something minutes of time.
Basically he watched "A Headbangers Journey" and decided to remake it, albiet, not as well, as a horror documentary. meh.
Very enjoyable and informative. Gives you a good sense of how in a world where we see so much division and have so many polarizing views, the horror community transcends all of that. It always has and i think thats pretty amazing.