Why is American in love with fear? There is a certain genre of movies called “Horrors”, which when a director creates the intense shock, fear, or disgust in their movies. These so called horror films include murders, ghosts, demons, monsters, and creature. Horrors get people’s hearts racing, and a movie like, The Children of the Corn, could leave some with the eebie-jeebies. Most people want to know why American’s enjoy the serial killing, ghost hunting flicks, but it all directly relates to how Americans view fear in their life. Fear in America has changed drastically over the past 100 years, but there still some traditions that modern horrors continue to take on. Scholars call the 21st generations the “Technology Age” because technology
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Even though technology has changed the way people can view fear and horrors, the storyline of them will always be the same. In an excerpt from the movie The Silence of the Lambs, one of the characters exclaims, “The doctors managed to re-set her jaw, more or less, and save one of her eyes. His pulse got over eighty-five, even when he ate her tongue. (pauses, he smiles) I keep him in here. (He turns, pushes a button. A steel door BUZZES slowly open, and BARNEY- a big, impassive orderly- awaits them in an anteroom. On its walls: restraints, mouthpieces, Mace, tranquilizer guns) (Tally 2). The example just given is showing cruel human nature in which a character, Chilton, discusses a guy smiling after he ate a woman’s tongue. Part of fear and horror is cruel nature, and eating limbs off a person and liking it is definitely part of cruel nature. Also, writers Justin D. Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet write about “Everyday Hauntings”. In their passage, they discuss television shows Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters. America loves these types of shows because it provides them with knowledge about supernatural creatures, like ghosts, and let them view them from an outsider’s perspective. They talk about how the haunting business in America so booming because Americans want to know more about ghosts (Monnet …show more content…
Some people would ask the question, why do people like being afraid, and the answer to that is that they are curious. Around Halloween time every year, people spend a large amount of money on setting up haunted houses. Some haunted houses take months to even set up, but people love them. People pay money to enter these horror houses and get scared, but this does not really seem logical. The same question can be asked about scary movies, why do people watch these movies if they know it will scare them. People want to know what it would be like in certain situations, but if they view the situations in a non-threatening, safe fashion, then it is not really scary to them. In the story, A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily, kills one of her lovers because she is afraid that he will leave her like her last lover. So, Emily commits the murder and keeps the body in her house for about 30 years (Faulkner 1). Readers are interested in a story like this because it gives them a situation that could create fear, but they know it is not real. The curiosity in people is what makes them want to keep reading or watching, and curiosity also boosts the horror ratings and attracts more viewers. Zombies and Werewolves are a big part of the 21st generation horror. Shows like Teen Wolf, a show on MTV, gives a little outside knowledge to people about the world of werewolves. Obviously werewolves are
Even though technology has changed the way people can view fear and horrors, the storyline of them will always be the same. In an excerpt from the movie The Silence of the Lambs, one of the characters exclaims, “The doctors managed to re-set her jaw, more or less, and save one of her eyes. His pulse got over eighty-five, even when he ate her tongue. (pauses, he smiles) I keep him in here. (He turns, pushes a button. A steel door BUZZES slowly open, and BARNEY- a big, impassive orderly- awaits them in an anteroom. On its walls: restraints, mouthpieces, Mace, tranquilizer guns) (Tally 2). The example just given is showing cruel human nature in which a character, Chilton, discusses a guy smiling after he ate a woman’s tongue. Part of fear and horror is cruel nature, and eating limbs off a person and liking it is definitely part of cruel nature. Also, writers Justin D. Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet write about “Everyday Hauntings”. In their passage, they discuss television shows Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters. America loves these types of shows because it provides them with knowledge about supernatural creatures, like ghosts, and let them view them from an outsider’s perspective. They talk about how the haunting business in America so booming because Americans want to know more about ghosts (Monnet …show more content…
Some people would ask the question, why do people like being afraid, and the answer to that is that they are curious. Around Halloween time every year, people spend a large amount of money on setting up haunted houses. Some haunted houses take months to even set up, but people love them. People pay money to enter these horror houses and get scared, but this does not really seem logical. The same question can be asked about scary movies, why do people watch these movies if they know it will scare them. People want to know what it would be like in certain situations, but if they view the situations in a non-threatening, safe fashion, then it is not really scary to them. In the story, A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily, kills one of her lovers because she is afraid that he will leave her like her last lover. So, Emily commits the murder and keeps the body in her house for about 30 years (Faulkner 1). Readers are interested in a story like this because it gives them a situation that could create fear, but they know it is not real. The curiosity in people is what makes them want to keep reading or watching, and curiosity also boosts the horror ratings and attracts more viewers. Zombies and Werewolves are a big part of the 21st generation horror. Shows like Teen Wolf, a show on MTV, gives a little outside knowledge to people about the world of werewolves. Obviously werewolves are