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The Monster In The Movies

  • Human beings, right from childhood are predisposed to pay attention to threats, making it hold our attention.
  • Threat takes hold of our visual attention, cognition, memory, learning, and our words and actions.
  • Someone already feeling anxious will get ‘sucked’ into the plot of a horror movie easily.
  • The purpose of the inevitable ‘monster’ in any horror movie is to induce this anxiety and fear among the audience.

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