CONTENT WARNING: Spiders on screen near end of video (stop watching after Luigi's Mansion 2)
Luigi's Mansion has a few moments that are surprisingly creepy! And to get inside your head, Nintendo use some super clever science! Here's how they do it.
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SOURCES
The Aesthetics and Psychology Behind Horror Films
https://digitalcommons.liu.edu/cgi/vi...
Shadows in Horror Films: Fear of the Unknown
https://broganocallaghan.wordpress.co...
Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned and sustained fear
https://www.utu.fi/en/news/pressrele...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
http://emotion.utu.fi/neuroscienceof...
Secondary
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/scitech/horro...
Horror movies tap into a primal fear instinct in your brain
https://www.businessinsider.com/whyh...
Do film soundtracks contain nonlinear analogues to influence emotion?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Secondary
https://www.npr.org/sections/healths...
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https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/19/...
Itsy Bitsy Spider: Fear of spiders and snakes is deeply embedded in us
https://www.cbs.mpg.de/Fearofspider...
GAMEPLAY CREDITS
Luigi's Mansion 1
• Longplay of Luigi's Mansion [Old]
• Luigi's Mansion 100% Walkthrough Wide...
Luigi's Mansion 2
• Luigi's Mansion 2 (Luigi's Mansion: D...
• Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon first playt...
Luigi's Mansion 3
• Luigi's Mansion 3 Intro
• Luigi's Mansion 3 Removed all spide...