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Horror Movie Fear
In Stephen King's "Why We Crave Horror Movies," he discusses how we are all mentally ill, and how we get pleasure out of scaring ourselves. King explains how we pay for movies to scare us, rides to shock us. How gore can turn in to humor at even a very young age. Horror movies are intended to scare us we watch them knowing this. However, are they unhealthy for us and children, desensitize, and do they create new fears?
While we sit in our living rooms watching a crazed murder run through the woods and slaughter an entire Boy Scout troop, we are shocked but not completely scared. Why? Because we can just pull the blanket up a little farther, and continue watching the horror. These movies create a kind of "safe fear." This lets us push our limits but still be in control of how scary it really is. For example too scary, turn the lights on, invite more friends, not scary enough, turn off all the lights in the house. You can always stay in charge of your......

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