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Why Do We Love Horrors?

Why Do We Love Horrors?

 

Really, what makes us getting addicted to dreadful novels, spine-chilling rides, and scary movies? The obvious answer would be, perhaps, we like to be frightened. But why do we like terrifying stuff when, from time to time, we already experience some moments of hair-raising fear and heart-pounding anxiety in our real lives anyway? Psychologists answer: we choose to expose ourselves to any immense fear if we are assured it wouldn’t hurt us in real. In other words, while reading a terrifying novel and watching a petrifying movie, we actually enjoy, not the horror itself, but our sense of being perfectly secured from it!

Also, a horror-loving reader or viewer always has the choice of closing a storybook if it is too dreadful to handle or leaving a cinema hall if the movie is scary to the point of being disturbing.

Experts think horror novels and movies have a taste for both our minds and body. The blood-showering scenes in movies gratify our instinct for aggression. Thrilling cars or swing riding generates very exciting vibes in our bodies that are kind of pleasant. When a swing goes upward, it causes anxiety in riders and fear when it is on the down track. The combined effect of both anxiety and fear causes a peak experience in the soul. Some people feel, after coming out of a roller coaster, they have off-loaded the persisting stress they had entered with.

One reason of horror movies being so popular is people want to face and overcome their fears. Horrifying movies help people believing that every scary situation has a way out. The horror-loving reader or viewer might learn how to exercise self-control in dreadful situations.

Despite the popularity, scary novels and terrifying movies have their own pros and cons. The visuals of murders, cut-off organs, rapes, and violence displayed in such movies may tempt some immature youths to re-enact them in real. Violent movies may also make a person insensitive to human life. Though some psychologists think otherwise. They suggest horror movies are more likely to help in lowering the violent crimes than causing them, as such movies may give their viewers a deeper insight into the psychology of violence and crime.

 

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