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...