It’s a Friday night and all of your friends have gathered together to watch a movie. As they start flipping through the selection, something catches their eye. A Horror film. Automatically their heart starts to beat faster and their hands start to tremble with excitement. As they press play on the DVD the lights dim and the room is dead silent. As the movie begins, slow and dark music begins to play and the rocking chair in the film is somehow moving on its own. A ghost is floating above you in the darkness, and there are eyes staring at you through the walls.
These images portray a sense of fear we fell when we watch scary movies. But our eyes stay glues to it as the murderer cuts open its victim.
We should often ask ourselves:
“Most people like to experience unpleasant emotions.”
These images portray a sense of fear we fell when we watch scary movies. But our eyes stay glues to it as the murderer cuts open its victim.
We should often ask ourselves:
- · Why do we watch them?
- · Why do we purchase them if we know we are going to be scared?
- · Why do we like to watch people suffer in films?
- · Why do our eyes stay glues to the TV when it gets bloody?
- · What makes us like to watch them?
“Most people like to experience unpleasant emotions.”
Although it may not be a positive outcome, we still watch them and we still keep our eyes glues to the screen. We can’t help it. Our eyes will not turn away from the scene.
“These impacts are felt by adults as well as children by the well-adjuster as well as the disturbed. They may linger well after the house lights go up – sometimes for years. And they may be anything but pleasurable."
Although many people have nightmares about horror films and bloody bodies, people still watch them because fear is an attraction to the human psyche, even if it means long term negative effects.
Great start, Kelsey. Good ideas here; just needs a few more details. Why is fear an attraction to the human psyche? What are the possible long term effects--negative and positive?
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ReplyDeleteI like how your post addresses people’s attraction to fear and violence even when it could be very negative. While writing though you assume that everyone is attracted to feeling afraid and to gore, and go on as if all humanity is addicted to these things, but you never explain why. You say that “…fear is an attraction to the human psyche,” but you never elaborate how or why. I myself have been attracted to horror films and haunted houses, believing it would be fun to see how afraid I actually would be. I see it as a challenge that is the aspect I would enjoy from it. Yet, even though I have this feeling I have never seen a true horror film, nor have I been to a professionally done haunted house, because I find them leaving a felling of darkness from just the previews, a feeling that I do not whish to seek out. I am not alone in this belief; there are many people who detest these things, especially gore and violence.
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