Teaser trailer for Adam Barnick’s new documentary about fear, What Is Scary?

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

What is scary? A simple question with a million different answers; each answer probably reveals a lot about the person doing the answering, and that’s what so fascinating about the question…

It also happens to be the subject of a new documentary by Adam Barnick called, naturally, WHAT IS SCARY? Barnick’s name may be familiar to some of you, as the man has directed making-of documentaries for the films GRACE and FROZEN, among many other things. Here he’s going for the full-length experience, with the titular existential question as the jumping off point.

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