What's Your Favourite Scary Movie?
👻👽Horror Films, and why we love them💀🔪
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its
audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark
subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad
elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk
beliefs.
There have been several studies into why so many people flock to the
cinema to see the latest horror, it can seem bizarre to some people
considering our instinct in everyday life is to avoid things that scare
us.
A common theory is that engaging with dangerous and horrifying
situations from the comfort of a movie theatre is almost akin to
exposure therapy. Renowned master of the genre Wes Craven once stated
that “horror films don’t create fear, they release it.” Which succinctly
seems to offer the same explanation.
Other theories include the idea that horror allows us to project any
personal 'monsters' we may be facing in our everyday life onto those
that the characters are facing and they are then able to see these
monsters vanquished.