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The Psychology of Scary Movies

Reasons for enjoying or hating scary movies
Sensation seeking individuals may enjoy scary movies because it will elevate the heart rate and make the body feel a...
What Loving Horror Movies Says About Your Personality
Reasons we like watching horror films
Horror films entertain us. They act as a means to fend off boredom. The horror film is a way of unravelling evi...
Why do we like watching horror films?
Why we feel intimidated with abnormal things
1. Thoughts like "what if there actually are ghosts" create excitement. Seeking this kind of experiences may b...
Why do we like watching horror films?
Primary factors that make horror films alluring
Tension - Generated by suspense, mystery, terror, shock and gore. Relevance - The horror film may relate ...
Why Do We Like Watching Scary Films?
Viewing motivators for horror movies
Gore watchers typically have low empathy, high sensation seeking, and a strong identification with the killer. Thril...
Why Do We Like Watching Scary Films?
Theories on why we love to watch horror films
Dr. Carl Jung believed horror films “tapped into primordial archetypes buried deep in our collective subconscious – ...
Why Do We Like Watching Scary Films?
The Horror Movie
Horror is a genre that has a reputation of being a low, somewhat trashy, titillating genre that appeals to our basest...
Why Do We Like Horror Movies?
For a work to be classified as horror...
... it has to have a monster, which has to be threatening in some way. The monster is often otherworldly or violates ...
Why Do We Like Horror Movies?
Enjoying scary movies
Research has found that willing exposure to that which scares us can provide a counterbalance to life's stresses: I...
Why Do We Crave Horror Movies? Science Suggests It's A Head Trip With Surprising Benefits
Why some people savor scary movies, and others hate them
The Excitation Transfer Process. How you feel AFTER the movie. When watching frightening films, the heart...
Why Some People Love Horror Movies While Others Hate Them
"The beast within"
This is the most popular theory explaining the genre’s popularity and it argues that an unconscious, repressed part o...
Why Do We Like Horror Movies?
Why People Enjoy Horror
We consciously disapprove of what the monster is doing, but deep down part of us enjoys seeing the mayhem the monster...
Why Do We Like Horror Movies?