Cinematophobia

Cinematophobia or cinemaphobia (made of cinema, meaning "movie theater", and phobia) is the fear of going to a movie theater. People who fear movies would not go there. Sufferers of cinematophobia may not just fear watching the movie there, but also fear sitting in the dark (achluophobia).

As a result of the, cases of cinematophobia has increased with the added fear of death (thanatophobia), thus resulting in less people going to the movie theaters since.