The next time someone refers to a horror movie as “bloodcurdling,” they might actually be kinda right. A new study shows that the fear experienced when watching scary movies is in fact associated with an increase in clotting agents in the blood.
A team of researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands has published its findings in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal—which famously prints light-hearted studies to read during the holidays.
via Gizmodo
