Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/4cZ830reUjr Horror is known to elicit fear in its audience. Initially inspired by authors like Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Edgar Allan Poe, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century. In this video, Sabrina sifts through the macabre and explores the supernatural to try to find the spookiest, scariest horror film of all time... with the help of some machine learning. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Melissa Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme CREDITS Produced by Sabrina Cruz Video Editing by Sam Anghelides Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz Sound Design by Melissa Fernandes MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress RECOMMENDED READING Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson Danse Macabre by Stephen King K-Means Clustering (application): https://towardsdatascience.com/k-mean... TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro to a Spooky Nerd 01:54 She's Literate! 02:10 How Horror Works 04:04 How Horror Manifests 05:29 Establishing a Literary Framework 06:05 The Plan 08:17 An Error-Filled Coding Montage 09:55 I Hope My Stats Prof Never Watches This 12:54 IT'S WORKED, NERDS! (An Analysis) 15:56 What Horror is Scariest? 17:03 Ad Read --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the joke under the fold! Here's a SpOOkY pun for you: What do you get when you cross a vampire with a snowman? Frostbite. Comment SPOOKY to let me know you were here ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This part isn't a joke. This video was sponsored by The Great Courses Plus.