People are often excited while listening to frightening stories. Therefore, much attention should be paid to the actual reason why people enjoyed watching horror movies. In fact, there are many factors and circumstances that make horror movies attractive for the audience. These factors are closely associated with the willingness of the audience to get excited.
By watching horror movies, people face intense experience because negative emotions are stronger than the positive ones. Therefore, horror movies are especially popular among teenage audience. In addition, psychological theories also prove that horror movies serve as catalysts of thoughts and feelings that have been suppressed by the ego. All these associations in combination form the reasons why modern horror movies are so attractive for the audience.
Horror movies can be regarded as the best way to get excited. At a glance, it might be strange that people want to be scared by vampires, zombies, and depictions of blood and flesh. However, from psychological point of view, watching horror movies allows the audience to experience sharp emotions.
As Begley points, out, terror is the most intense emotion that a person can ever experience (n. p.). The audience is also aware that horror movies are nothing more than fiction and, therefore, nothing could happen to people watching these movies. Moreover, people who are fond of watching terror movies strive to find things that can provoke intense emotion. Horror movies perfectly suit this purpose.
Watching horror movies provides people with intense experience because fear is among the strongest emotions that a person can ever endure. In addition, people have always been attracted by supernatural creatures, including monsters and vampires, which cannot be actually met in a real life (Dirks n. p.).
In most of cases, horror movies unveil some shocking and abhorrent pictures that make the audience captured by the mysterious consequences these pictures might have at the end of the movie. In addition, horror movies often rely on the plots that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. As a result, viewers are overwhelmed with finding the boundaries between these two worlds.
Apart from the attempt to explain the mysterious and shocking themes described in the horror movie, people often watch these films to escape from reality for a while (Southern n. p.). What is more frightening is that the situations described in the movie often resemble the events from real life.
They are often thrilled by such situations and, in such a way, they might identify themselves with the movie heroes (Pappas n. p.). Taking horror movies seriously, however, may have negative consequences for people, particularly for their moral and psychological wellbeing. Nevertheless, they still keep watching horror movies because they help them forget about their real problems.
In conclusion, modern horror movies are popular nowadays because they allow people to get excited and scared. Watching horror movies provides the audience with intense experience and negative emotions that are much stronger than the positive ones.
Second, many theorists propose that abhorrent scenes from horror movies allow individuals to detach from reality and enter the world of supernatural creatures, such as vampires, zombies, and other monsters. Finally, modern horror movies attract people by its exclusive special effects that make them experience sharp feelings and emotions. All these components make horror movies particularly popular among the teenagers who are also searching for instance emotions.
Works Cited
Begley, Sharon. “Why Our Brains Love Horror Movies” The Daily Beast. 2011. Web.
Dirks, Tim. “Horror Films”. Filmsite. 2012. Web.
Pappas, Stephanie. “Scientists Take a Stab at Why Horror Film Lust Runs Deep”. CBSNews. 2010. Web.
Southern, Rodney. “Why Horror Movies Are So Popular in Today’s Pop Culture”. Yahoo Voices. 2007. Web.