| RATS tearing at your face, sharks chomping at your legs, spiders and snakes
filling you with venom. The animal kingdom is filled with threats. To keep
us from falling into such nasty predicaments, humans have been endowed with
the emotion of fear - the overpowering feeling that tells us we are in serious
trouble and need to take immediate protective action.
But sometimes fear itself is a greater danger than the thing we are afraid
of. Our powerful
imaginations can conjure up monsters far more terrifying than anything
walking the earth. The subconscious can wreck hell on our minds and our
bodies. In a span of seconds, a phobia can send an otherwise strong,
intelligent person into hysterics. Their fear can escalate to the point
where they are afraid to leave their houses rather than run the risk of
encountering their nightmare animals. Uncontrollable fear can ruin lives.
ANIMAL NIGHTMARES and TOTAL FEAR explore the dark zone of animal phobias
and shed light on the complicated relationship between the rational mind
and primal terror. We examine human perceptions of animals, specifically the
negative and often irrational ways that phobics view the objects of their
fears. We show how their perceptions change as they try to tame their
terror and learn to see animals as they are, not as they imagine them to be.
| Animal Nightmares
(13 x 23 minutes): |
Alligators
Bees
Birds
Cats
Dogs
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Frogs
Bears
Rats
Bats
Snakes
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Sharks
Spiders
Bugs
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| Total Fear (5 x 43 minutes):
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Rats
Spiders
Bats
Snakes
Sharks and Alligators
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