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- 1Horror Films Built Around Doomscrolling Are Emerging as a New Genre●They’re Making a Doomscroll Scary Movie Genre, and I’m So Scared
Filmmakers are developing a new horror genre centered on doomscrolling, where the act of endlessly scrolling through distressing online content becomes the source of on-screen terror. Writing in Jezebel, a columnist admits to finding the concept genuinely frightening, arguing that horror rooted in the very habit audiences practice daily hits uncomfortably close to home. The piece frames this as a natural evolution of screen-life horror for the social media era.