Why Watch Scary Films?

Why do we see scary films?
-satisfaction
-feel of relief
-testing yourself
What do films do to make them scary?
Tensim
-create use of micro-element and
Realism
-the fear generated has to be revalent to the audiences and believed.
Unrealism
The audience have ti be aware it isnt real.

ARISTOTLE THEORY

-gave audience a chance to purge their negative emotions called catharsis.

-release the pent up feelings of aggression.

DOLF ZILLMANN

-negative feelings created by horror movies actually intensify the positive feelings when the hero triumphs in the end

-people’s enjoyment was actually higher during the scary parts of a horror film than it was after

GLEN D. WALTERS

-The first is tension

- relevance

- unreal ism