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Coltan Scrivner
Jan 29, 2025
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I recently wrote about how I think horror should be defined. Rather than defining it by how the audience feels when they watch it, I focused instead on the importance of the villain’s relationship to the protagonist. The definition I landed on was based on my thinking about how predators interacted with humans throughout our evolutionary history:

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