Stock Market Technician Sees Growing Appetite For Horror Movies
How is a medieval mathematician, the petals on a daisy, and the length of women's skirts related to scarier frighteners at the box office?

Robert Prechter says a bear market psychology has taken hold, as exemplified in the success of "cutting edge horror" like Saw 
  
In the last few years, we have entered a fertile era for horror movies. Unfortunately, this period will also be accompanied by one of the greatest economic depressions that humankind has ever known and one that could be accompanied by political instability and war.

These are the extraordinary prognostications made by stock market technical analyst Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave International, a man who manages to command considerable respect in the investment community in spite of his extreme predictions.
Iofilm
May 13, 2006