Research on 'Why people love the 'Horror Genre'

Why Do People Love Horror Movies? They Enjoy Being Scared

ScienceDaily (July 31, 2007) — A bedrock assumption in theories that explain and predict human behavior is people's motivation to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. How can this be reconciled with the decision to engage in experiences known to elicit negative feelings, such as horror movies" It certainly seems counterintuitive that so many people would voluntarily immerse themselves in almost two hours of fear, disgust and terror.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070725152040.htm

This piece of research is from a scientific website and shows the mental and psychological reasons for people liking horror  movies.

I believe it's because it's a way of escaping from real life into a temporary, fantasy world where horrific and terrible things happen to normal people like you and me, with otherworldly sites and sounds we would not be experiencing in our everday life.


We know that what we are seeing is "not real", that we are in a "safe zone", yet we can experience the feeling of knowing what it might be like if these things we see and hear could actually happen to us...this is our imagination at work


It's normal human behavior to seek "thrills", and these things projected on a screen are emotionally "thrilling" and yet physically harmless.
Summed up in one word: ESCAPISM

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060808201355AA3SoXM

This research is from a website called Yahoo which is a place where people ask questions and anyone can put their own opinion, so this is from a person's own point of view about why people like horror movies.




The reason I chose to do this research is so we can look at the reasons people love the genre and make sure that when we watch our movie over we feel those same feelings inside.