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Sept. 25, 2024Maryville, Mo. | By: Jeremy Werner
While a lot of people might save scary movies for the month of Halloween, horror movies are becoming a year-round moneymaker. Since 1995 horror movies have more than doubled its market share in the U.S. and Canada.
Associate professor at Northwest Missouri State University Jason Offutt teaches Ethno-Graphic Film Studies, in which he shows and discusses several sci-fi and horror films from overseas and in America.
He says whenever the world is in turmoil, audiences turn to horror.
He says that horror movies represent pure escapism.