Films and Feelings

       Raise your hand if growing up you were “that friend” who couldn’t stomach scary movies.      Don’t worry, this is a safe space. I hated scary movies for as long as I could remember.      In my youth I didn’t find the sensation of clenching your toes for 80 minutes straight particularly appealing, so I just let horror movies exist in their lane. Their lane, approximately 39 and a half feet away from mine. Of course, fast forward fifteen years and one Media Arts Studies degree later, and I can't really maintain that distance. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)     And that's not an entirely bad thing. My scholarly dives into the genre have taken me to some interesting places with horror. The Shining stands out as one example of a film I never thought I’d love growing up, but here I am. But unfortunately, that's not the experience I have with every scary movie.     T his summer, I finally viewed a ce...