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Scary movie effects12/9/2023 ![]() But they didn’t necessarily think they’d learned or had grown. They also shared whether they’d learned anything about themselves or felt they had grown as a person by braving the haunt.Īdrenaline junkies felt great. After the haunt, those fans reported how they felt. There, they found the same three types of horror fans. The same researchers also surveyed about 250 visitors to a haunted house in Denmark. They agreed with statements such as “watching horror movies makes me realize that everything in my own life is OK.” The third group of fans were “dark copers.” Those people seemed to use horror to deal with bad feelings and events in real life. They often reported being stressed while watching horror. The first group were “adrenaline junkies.” They agreed with statements such as “being scared makes me feel alive.” The second group were dubbed “white knucklers.” They reported more negative reactions to scary movies - but sought out those films anyway. But other fans known as “white knucklers” power their way through the fear to grow and learn about themselves as people. Some “adrenaline junkies” may get a rush from watching scary movies. One survey study revealed there are different types of horror fans. ![]() Those responses broadly revealed three types of fans. People rated how much they agreed with dozens of statements about why they enjoyed the genre. Recreational fear, she says, “does increase all of this activity in our nervous system that - in the absence of a real threat - can be experienced more like excitement and make us feel good.” Plus, “there is that sense of accomplishment” in making it through a real nail-biter of a film.Ĭlasen’s team also identified this range of motives in a survey of more than 250 American horror fans. She’s a sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. “There are a lot of different reasons,” says Margee Kerr. The question of why people find enjoyment in scenes like this - from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) - has no simple answer. Here, on the side of the path, stands the scarecrow’s post. A few minutes later, he seems to pass the scarecrow again. On the way, he shoulder-checks a scarecrow hung crooked on its post. The hype about horrorĪ teen sets off across a cornfield in the dead of night. They may also reveal how scary media helps people face real-life fears. The findings may not only help explain a curious quirk of human behavior. New research is just starting to untangle who likes horror, and why. There, he and others are shedding light on the appeal of dark media. Today, Clasen directs the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark. Yet many people want to sit through films stalked by creepy clowns, blood-thirsty monsters and mad murderers. The paradox is this: Horror movies are designed to provoke seemingly bad emotions. “I was always curious about that weird fascination - what’s often called the paradox of horror.” “But, like for many other people, it’s a price I’m willing to pay,” Clasen says. He became fascinated with scary movies as a teen, he says, “even though I knew that there was a price.” That price might be checking for monsters under the bed. They’ll look forward to visiting haunted houses at Halloween and line up to see the latest scary movie. But other people relish a good fear-fest. For some people, movies like this are too frightening to be fun. In the horror movie The Ring, anyone who watches a certain video tape is cursed to die one week later.
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