Paranormal Profits

By Stacey Vanek Smith,

Published October 31, 2018 at 4:50 PM EDT

The movie business is terrifying--most movies lose money. One genre where that does not hold true: horror movies. Today on the show, we look at why horror movies are more likely to make money than any other kind of movies. Part of the reason: fear itself.

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Stacey Vanek Smith

Stacey Vanek Smith is the co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. She's also a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics. In this role, Smith has followed economic stories down the muddy back roads of Oklahoma to buy 100 barrels of oil; she's traveled to Pune, India, to track down the man who pitched the country's dramatic currency devaluation to the prime minister; and she's spoken with a North Korean woman who made a small fortune smuggling artificial sweetener in from China.

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