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What makes horror films scary?
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What makes horror films scary? The horror film is a very strange genre. Audiences actually watch them to be scared witless, and what more is that its for entertainment. It seems then that being frightened can translate into pleasure for people, and so it follow that scarier, more frightening a film is, the greater the impact on the audience. This begs a question though, what is it about horror films which makes them scary? The early horror films such as 'The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)', used the idea of the monster to create horror. The monster represented a formidable, unstoppable, dangerous force, whose goal was simply to inflict acts of violence on the victims. The idea of the monster seems to stems from the universal fear of people with more physical strength then our own; they are the subject of 'bogie man' stories told to children to keep them in...
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