News Summary

• The horror biz is booming, as recent Weekend Edition reporting has made clear.
• Market research by Nielsen says profits from the genre have jumped almost 26-percent year over year.
• Backrooms — about a horrifying liminal space that exists beyond our own reality — smashed box office records.
• "They say it's hard to describe what scary is but I know it when I see it," says Michael Clear, the president of the newly-merged studio Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
• "We're drawn like moths to a flame to things that are scary," Clear says.