Why people are immersed in horror movies ?
People’s mind has such a characteristic, that is will be the role of the opposite direction of the force, for the fear of things, was isolated (taboo) with the things that will produce close and longing, put some white, explore the curiosity. Based on this rebellious psychological characteristics, we are caused by the fear of things arising from both fear and longing for the ambivalence, it is easy to explain. For the terrorist object of this contradictory psychology, which contains the curiosity and exploration (knowledge) desire, but also people can learn one of the psychological basis.
From the bloody scenes of the West to the more mysterious temperament of the East ghost story, look at the success of the film horror film, which “scary” factors, nothing more than three categories: people afraid of visual effects, people afraid The sound effect, people scary plot effect. Sound and vision directly on the human senses, the plot contains a deeper metaphor, to stimulate the audience to their own horror experience memory. Horror scenes seemingly virtual plot often cast out some of the real social problems, reflecting some of the original intention of people, it is an anti-abnormal way to show people’s true human nature. Therefore, this story reflects the true human nature of the story to bring people deep fear at the same time, but also to meet the needs of people subconscious.
The reason why people like to watch horror film, lies in the film revealed by the horror experience led to the audience’s own psychological experience of terror, for the needs of the terrorist experience, and even a human psychological instinct. We also see that the horror of Chinese and foreign horror films, whether natural or fantasy, has a basic characteristic, that is mysterious, its essence is that people do not understand them, that ignorance. One of the most basic examples of this horrific experience is that a person is in a strange place to be afraid, though that place may be safer than where he is familiar. Because the fear of terror for the object, that is, fear, trying to close and understand, to overcome the fear, and then face the new fear, the process of digestion fear will become a process of knowledge. In this sense, watching the positive side of the horror film, not only to exercise psychological tolerance, but also the formation of a psychological skills.