This article was all about horror movies and how they work psychologically. It starts out listing what horror even is to begin with. It lists the main factors of horror.
Tension: This is created through suspense, gore and terror. This is very important to not only horror movies, but films in general.
Relevance: This is what makes the film makes you care about whats happening. It does this through fear like death and the unknown. But it can also do it through making you feel connected to the characters. When bad things happen to them you feel fear because you can imagine yourself in that situation.
Unrealism: This is some what of the opposite of the last factor but still remains important. A lot of what happens in horror movies seem unrealistic and surreal but yet, still make you fearful. This is because it seems so unreal and unfamiliar to you it causes fear.
The article also had various theories on what attracts people to horror movies. One was the feeling of Uncanny similar to Unrealism, on how something weird and sometimes gross can attract attention just because how different it is. Next is Excitation Factor. This is when you feel happy when the hero prevails in the end, but a lot of horror movies don't end that way sooooo, that's probably why this is just a theory. There are also many other theories like porosity and fascination, dispositional alignment, sensation feeling and gender socialization theory. People watching the movie also may have different ideals when viewing a horror movie. These are gore watching (which I probably am to be honest) thrill watching, Independent watching and problem watching. And finally the article closes by saying how we can uses horror as a creative outlet to showcase our scary but interesting ideas.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually preferred the article to the video. The video was way longer than it had to be in my opinion, and I lost interest rather quickly as I rather just read the article at my own pace. But I did enjoy the topic a lot as I do enjoy horror movies quite a bit.
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