Scary American Environment

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The girl woke up as she heard a scream, a scream so loud she have never heard before yet, she was familiar with the sound. As her senses woke up in the pitch black house the sound got more and more familiar. Was It mom?
She put on her morning robe and ran down the stairs. It was raining and on top of that, thunder. When she was close to the kitchen she heard another shout coming from the master bedroom upstairs. It was her mom’s own voice coming from the bedroom. Honey, did you hear that?
When mom stopped shouting to her, the girl saw a shadow in the kitchen, a shade so familiar. A shade that looked like mom.
The girl froze in fear when she heard something coming down from the stairs and seeing something coming closer and closer from the
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Without it, and to be frankly honest, the movie would feel like shit.

This two are prime examples of a scary environment. They are both dark and even though there is a bit of light you still feel like there’s none at all. That’s because you feel so small with the little fire as everything around you is pitch black. But in horror movies there would not even be a single light existing. This makes us less powerfull without any controll of what’s going on, we would feel so powerless and that would weaken our defenses and our self-esteem. This will the directors take their advantage because it would make it easier to scare the audience since it would be easier.

Almost every human would have said that the first picture. Odd right? It’s the same concept yet the first one is more disturbing and scary. Could it be that theres more people on the second? Maybe the Weather on the first picture makes it more disturbing (the fog) or at last, the swamp?

My feeling towards the first picture is that it is abbonden. It makes me feel uncomfortable and lonely, which is not a good
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But here comes the million dollar question. Why?
Why do some people enjoy watching a scary movie even though our natural response to fear as a threat or even far as danger?

Dr. Margee kerr is a staff socioligist at the theme park Scarehouse (http://www.scarehouse.com) and she got also got the million dollar question, Why?

Her response goes like this: Not everyone enjoys being afraid, and I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that no one wants to experience a truly life-threatening situation. But there are those of us (well, a lot of us) who really enjoy the experience.

One of the main hormones released during scary and thrilling activities is dopamine, and it turns out some individuals may get more of a kick from this dopamine response than others do.

This means some people are going to really enjoy thrilling, scary, and risky situations while others, not so much.

If I decide to see a scary movie and a horrible moment occur, naturaly I will be scared right? I would be stressed and be on guard since it’s my natural response to fear. After the horrible moment I would be glad, that’s because I would think, finaly I made it through! I would feel that I achieved a goal or an achievment. This will boost my self-esteem and my

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