Comments on: When Pop Culture Goes Bad http://evanskey.com/blog/archives/122 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:16:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Curly http://evanskey.com/blog/archives/122#comment-11256 Curly Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:20:04 +0000 http://evanskey.com/blog/archives/122#comment-11256 But what about the claim that it's scarier if it really happened? Do you agree? I don't agree. I think the important part to scariness is not historical accuracy, but verisimilitude. If we believe it could happen, it's scary. But what about the claim that it’s scarier if it really happened? Do you agree?

I don’t agree. I think the important part to scariness is not historical accuracy, but verisimilitude. If we believe it could happen, it’s scary.

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