In this article, the author asks a question about why we love scary movies. At first, the author talked about how popular the scary movies are and what are these popular movie. And then, the author said that scary movie are nothing new, but films like those in the Saw and Hostel series have offered something different: they focus on the suspense of the chase and more on the suffering of the victim, leading some to dub them torture porn. After that, author raised a point that this kind of movie is not logical, so people like it. There are some other reasons which the author mentions in the article, the fear is real, morbid fascination, lingering effects and the torture trap.
In this article, the author said that Horror films have delighted audiences for over a century, from Georges Méliès’ terrifying depiction of the demon Mephistopheles in The House of the Devil (1896), to the feral children in Mama (2013). And then the author said that I have smooshed a child’s face before (on accident of course — kind of,) because he showed me a picture of Pennywise the Clown when I wasn’t expecting it. After that the author gives some example about the horror movies.
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