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Why? Because they calm me. No movie has ever scared me. I don’t like slasher movies. I enjoy paranormal movies, and psychological thrillers. Yes, I have acute GAD and Social AD. Interesting. Real life is what scares me, not works of fiction.

@CuriousCattery

5 ай бұрын

I have the same. Have you tried the DARE approach.. seems to be helping me so far.

First of all, I appreciate your labour with these videos about neuroscience, especially your technical or biological approach to emotions. Because; we can find any information about psychology but people can not find neuroscientific explanations about human behaviour. I think horror movies are cognitive preparation for dangerous events. In these horror movies and most of the movies; people may want to find out the prototypes of the criminals and, afterwards, to find out some new strategies for danger. Some crime - serial killer - assault etc. documentaries are being watched more than horror movies because of this and moreover these types of movies are watched more by women. I guess, we can not explain it by the pleasure or feelings of these scenes reveal. Another note; after these movies, people tend to talk about the events and seek protection or they actively change their door locks or change the city or neighbourhood where they live in.

Personally, I like horror movies for the sublime humor that creators use to depict certain scenes and situations (for instance, The Brood 1979). This technical trick alleviates the effects of scary scenes. At the same time some scary movies are too scary to my taste (the original Blair Witch tops the list)

@senseofmindshow

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great point. I’ve read that one reason for that alleviation is that humor can make the horror seem less realistic.

@vasilisalohankina1707

Жыл бұрын

@@senseofmindshow I'd say it changes the perception of reality by creating some sort of a schield. Then your brain only needs to overwrite your first scary impression with your funny experience. And your fear has nothing else to do but to budge a bit. The whole thing depends on your ability to see the funny part, of course

@Mammytribe

Жыл бұрын

I don’t like horror movies because the acting is usually shit! There are of course exceptions!

@lookdawg187

4 ай бұрын

I was 5 years old when I saw the first Hellraiser movie, people said it's a horror movie... what's so horrifying? It's fake... I've seen movies like Birds and IT as a child, I loved those movies. I can't name a single movie that was scary, it's not real so why should I fear it? People do understand that it's fake right? You can't be afraid of something that is fake, that's irrational. True horror is irrational people out on the streets, they are real and do real harm. Horror is what children go through at schools when irrational people show up. Horror movie is just a good laugh, it's fake, it can't hurt you.

Curious to know if there are any insight thought peices in developing games within the horror genre? I love playing video games but i am seeing today a "trend" in scarry or horror genre video games where kids are running away from a fear, wether it is a person or thing chasing them. Iam not quite sure if this a good thing for developing brains, such as kids, to have pleasure i nthe persuit of fear? Curious to know your thoughts if there is something like this already studied.

@lookdawg187

4 ай бұрын

I don't even get how a game or movie can be scary, it's fake... it can't be horror... it's illogical to call fake, scary. I played loads of horror games, there's horror games where all you can do is run or it's game over, which is boring af. Amnesia for example, I got so bored I started chasing the monsters throwing bottles at them. In Resident Evil I hunt the 'horror'. In Silent Hill I defeat the 'horror', in Phasmophobia I hunt the 'horror'. Ghosts and demons should be afraid of me, I'll mess them up. Horror is swimming in the ocean and suddenly you see a shark.

Movies about werewolves, vampires and zombies can be fun, but they're also purely escapist . You're never going to run into a vampire, a werewolf or a horde of zombies in real life. Serial killers however do exist in real life. That's why slasher movies like Halloween are scarier, because to a certain extent the things that happen in those movies could happen in real life.

@senseofmindshow

Жыл бұрын

That's a great point and it's how I've felt ever since I stopped believing in the supernatural. I wonder if people who believe in ghosts tend to be more scared by those kinds of horror movies.

I always feel alien when I hear ppl explain why humans like horror. A movie can be not be horror by definition, it's fake... what is scary about fake images? The horror genre is comedy to me, I always laugh when ppl get taken out by monsters. Friday the 13th for example had such hilarious trip scenes. Freddy Kruger was boring to me, if he entered my dream world then he enter a place where I am god. Just like IT was boring to me, oh no... a clown that preys on kids... so scary. I was sad there weren't monsters under my bed. Horror is watch the news and seeing a child stuck in a mine, that's real. If it's not real, my brain can't even register fear because there's nothing to fear. If I want to see horror, I'll look up cartel videos, where real ppl face all kinds of horrifying ends.

I'm sorry but I like to watch people suffer in horror movies because it lets my physical harm out of me and turns it to mush; so that I do not want to kill someone dearly. Its cuz I inherited anger issues from my father :(

Heh apparently one of the few women who love horror 😅. Any other ladies

I hate jump scares they're not scary they're cheap and stupid the lazy way to get people's knee jerk response a forceful response. The only way it's effective is if it's used sparingly like in John Carpenter's The Thing. Otherwise it's stupid and just annoying! It takes me out of the movie and experience. CG and jump scares suck.