10 Absurd Phobias Influenced By Horror Movies

4. Witches - Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Witches are up next to bat. While the concept of witches itself is pretty frightening; ugly women that ride around on broomsticks and use magic to torment people and worship pagan deities, they also don€™t exist, so being afraid of them is pretty ridiculous. Wiccaphobia actually dates back some time, and we can easily trace its roots back to the 14th century, and its popularity amongst the public consciousness occasionally spikes, most recently in the 1970s and 80s, which also sparked a string of horror films revolving around the concepts of witches and satanism. Let€™s go back and look at the origin of this trend, and we€™ll make our film for this entry Rosemary€™s Baby. The film is about the titular Rosemary, who moves into a new apartment with her husband, beside a couple of creepy and annoying old neighbors. After mysteriously becoming pregnant, Rosemary begins to believe her neighbors are up to something a bit more sinister. Another deeply unsettling film, Rosemary€™s Baby is a classic and highly influential psychological horror. It€™s one of those films that leaves you to wonder if anything supernatural is actually going on or if the protagonist is just crazy, perhaps even suffering from a sort of phobia herself, and Rosemary's paranoia could no doubt brush off onto the more jittery viewer.
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Evan Tavares is a film student that enjoys cooking, television and gory foreign horror films, at least according to his Netflix recommendations.