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    Why do people have such a strong opinion on horror movies? Anybody you ask about horror are only going to say 2 things about it. People either love horror or hate it‚ and People who love horror can usually understand why people don’t like horror. But when it comes to the people who don’t like horror‚ they have no clue why someone would want to submit themselves to such tragedies. Steven king has proposed three reasons that people love horror‚ and they are to face our fears‚ to feel normal‚ and to

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    Horror is a film genre intended to receive a negative emotional response from the audience. Comedy‚ on the other hand is intended to make the audience laugh. Horror films and comedy films‚ both attract sizable audiences every year; beside the simple fact that horror films were produced to scare people‚ and comedy films were produced to make people laugh‚ both genres share plenty of differences‚ but also some similarities. Horror films are those known to create fear by depicting gore‚ ghosts‚ killers

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    Horror movies are a waste of time When I walk into a movie theater and I hear the scary climatic music‚ coming from inside of one of the theaters. I see people running out of the theater that cannot handle the gore with their eyes shut tight. To think that they just paid eight dollars to have an unpleasant two hours watching only a fraction of the horror movie. They probably watched about 50 cents if you divided the money into the time the movie

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    entire existence of art‚ but only the appearance of the cinema made depiction of fear as real and graphical as to make people actually see it. Over the course of the 20th century the horror movies of all kinds‚ from crudely primitive to rather intellectual have been extremely popular and remain to be so in the 21st one. But why? The main reason‚ in my opinion‚ is that‚ no matter what people say about modern world and how terrible it is‚ the fact that the life of the majority of people is much safer and

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    Why Do We Watch Scary Movies? When reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ one aspect of the early story really bothered me. Why do Jem and Scout‚ even though they are deathly scared of the Radley house dare each other to mess with the house? Evidently‚ the two children are fascinated by the fear‚ but what really causes us to bring ourselves to fear? While pondering this question‚ something else that I simply can’t wrap my head around popped up in my mind. What is with scary movies? Horror

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    I dislike watching horror movies because they are negative towards people and you have to deal with it mentally. When I was seven‚ I had a bad experience with a scary movie. My friends forced me to watch Halloween with them on a cold fall night in October. The disturbing image of Mike Myers killing someone is still locked in my mind today. I hated this film because of the white mask Mike Myers would wear. I hate the fact that I know something is going to pop out at me in the movie and make me jump

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    Donqua Williams Effects of Horror movies in the society If you were to take a survey of how many people like to watch horror movies‚ I’m pretty sure most people wouldn’t choose horror films. According to Sparks‚ watching horrifying films will cause physical reactions such as sweaty pants‚ tense muscles‚ a spike in blood pressure and/or an increase in heart rate. Some people don’t like to watch horror movies because they have bad dreams or don’t like sleeping in the dark alone. Parents

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    Can aggressive children be predicted by the movies they are watching? People’s everyday lives are Can filled with events that trigger stimuli in the brain‚ even if he or she aren’t aware of it. From their friends playing pranks on them‚ to watching a more violent show on television‚ it all affects the minds in one way or another. Not only do these events or images affect kids current life‚ but could also lead up to adulthood such as: anxiety‚ heart racing‚ high blood pressure‚ etc. Everyone knows

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    some of the motives why most people love watching a movie in a cinema. To really experience a film it must be seen on the big screen. The darkness‚ the high-quality presentations‚ the thriving sound‚ and the size of the screen generate an atmosphere that augments the joy of seeing a film. But I consider there are only a few genres that are capable of making the theater experience meaningful and eternal. The three top categories to see in a cinema are‚ without doubts: suspense‚ horror‚ and action.

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    Thomas Fuselier Why do we need heroes? Professor James Winters While they may be very different from one another almost every movie must have some type of hero. Screen writers and movie directors must constantly develop these different types of heroes to please the many different attitudes and opinions of movie goers. Movie enthusiast all have different reasons for liking the movie heroes they do and it is up to the screen writers‚ actors‚ and directors to successfully please the movies target audience

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