Media's Purveyance, Horror Movies

[LLalassuSkry]

                  
                It's most true regarding America, that a  great many really horrific, grisly movies come out here- for example, the plethora of Jason, Halloween movies!   They've actually got a Halloween 20, or something like that, where Jason is a stowaway scourge on a Star Cruiser ship, with as you would expect nightmarish plot attributes; a supertech Jason!   There are tons of similar type movies.... It seems like an obsession!   Actually, I think it would have been a little better not to have made the Jason movies- they can be disturbing.    He's like a Berserker or Locobot that they can't get rid of!  
           The psychology behind all of this... why are such movies so popular?   I think it is basically due to the Love Miasm in America, by which I mean the low quality and quantity of love and sex life; popular modes which don't reflect Wisdom- you know, "going steady" until there's nothing but the worst boredom left in a relationship, Ex-Girlfriend Revenge videos exploitation, the tattered remnants of an affair that either was ill-conceived basically, or they didn't know how to conduct it!  They have found that such incredibly grisly movies cause an inner turbulence or terror, but that afterwards people feel cleansed or healed of Ill, or bane that the predominantly unenlightened love and sex modes cause!   It's like a church, Our Lady Of Perpetual Terror- people sort of feel better about things when the "mass" is over.
           You know, I've heard the manager of these boards, who seems like a very "mainstream" person, actually has some very unusual predilections, such as listening to strange, exotic music like the Scriabine Ninth Piano Sonata at unusual hours of the night.....

                      
         

[krogero10]

I personally love to watch horror movies but hardly get time for it. This weekend my kids are going to visit their granny and I can watch some horror movies alone. On the other days, I like to watch shows by Andy Yeatman with my kids. The shows are nice and there is a lot to learn.

[Rob W. Case]

I believe that horror movies are a popular genre due to the potential "thrill factor" involved. In a way, I guess you can say that it's sort of like going to a major amusement park. When you go, and you decide to take on a large and intimidating looking ride (like a super high roller coaster, something that drops you, and/or something that takes you around at an incredible speed, etc.) you go to be in suspense (maybe scared and thrilled) of what is going to happen to you and how you are going to respond to it. Horror movies are sought after because people want to be in suspense, scared, thrilled, and/or even see what diabolical idea(s), concepts, and situations the main characters are going to end up in and how they may or may not get out of it.

Another way to look at it is that horror movies take you into a dark and dangerous place, one where evil lurks and prowls around in, and you the viewer are sort of a "bystander" following the characters and seeing if or when, given the situation that they are in, they will fall into a trap. And with each death/murder that surrounds the main character, it raises the danger even higher, increasing the thrill factor. That's why I think these movies are as popular as they are, in a mainstream sort of way.