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it can sometimes be polarized and in some instances Tal feels that the genre's fans are misunderstood. At the same time, Tal is conflicted over how he can be "disturbed by gruesome imagery showcased in the news, but thrives on blood and guts found in movies, books, music, graphic novels and video games" and as such sets out to try to find how horror affects his mind. For his research Tal interviews several different people, from genre filmmakers and writers to scientists and psychologists, to uncover why people enjoy horror and how perception, traditions, and beliefs help impact how horror is perceived and displayed in various countries and globally as a whole.
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required funding to buy the rights to films the crew wanted to showcase in the documentary as well as to afford travel to different locations to film various interviews that they still required and to document horror in other countries. A Kickstarter campaign was launched and actor Elijah Wood contributed to the campaign and later agreed to narrate the documentary's animated clip.
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The documentary follows horror movie fan and journalist Tal
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as they felt that it was "part of the greater subculture that doesn't necessarily apply to why we enjoy being scared". They also wanted to avoid covering material that had already been done in other documentaries that focused on how creative professionals scare people and while editing the film
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