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"Horror movies calm my anxiety"

19 February 2021
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One of the things that Chris Landon & Skipper talked about in this week's episode is the notion of horror movies being therapeutic. Sarah Aboulhosn wrote "Horror movies calm my anxiety" on Medium, which echoes the same point. You can read it here: https://link.medium.com/t1IPg5xV0db.

And of course, you can listen to Chris Landon's episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/13.

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Lucky no. 13, How This Works with Chris Landon

16 February 2021
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It's new episode Tuesday! And we have a conversation with Chris Landon today about his lifelong love of horror movies and how that's played into his work as a screenwriter and as a director. We talk about a ton of movies, including some of his own — "Disturbia" (2007), his helping to reboot the "Paranormal Activity" series, "Happy Death Day" (2017), "Happy Death Day 2U" (2019), and "Freaky" (2020).

One of our favorite parts is when Skipper admits he's not really a fan of horror and Chris tells him off. Chris is joking, of course, but there’s real #truth in there too.

Don’t wait, listen to the #podcast now: https://www.howthisworks.show/13

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First episode of The Magnus Archives

15 February 2021
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In advance of tomorrow's episode with Chris Landon, we want to highlight a podcast that recent guest Nova Stanley mentioned, The Magnus Archives. It's recently concluded after 191 episodes of following Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute — a London research center on the paranormal. In Nova's words from his episode, it's got that "good ol' British library feeling".

Listen to the first episode below:

You can find all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-magnus-archives/id1095138637