The first article is called “The Curious Appeal of Horror Movies”. The writer stated her ideas about why so many people like to feel scared and enjoy the horror movie. She thought that curiosity is a powerful emotion for feeling horror and people need to release pressure though horror. Just like the writer said “Curiosity is a powerful emotion. There’s a sense of illicitness to horror that is very seductive, because from a very early age we are taught that watching horror movies, like porn and cigarettes and pinching the underside of your little brother’s arm to make him squeal, is wrong.”(O’Brien, para 5) This is true for me as well. Most people are not meant to see the horror movie. This feeling is effected people no matter how old they are. Sometimes, people just want to survive from the dark and unexpected things to compare with their real life. Just like people love to rollercoasters, they love to feel horror in the same way. Carroll said that“It stimulates our cognitive appetite with the prospect of something previously inconceivable.” (Carroll, page 287) People are always attracted by the horror because of their curiosity. With this curiosity, people start to seek for horror to enjoy. That liberation with dark ride is people want. People can know horror through seeing horror movies just like know violence through from violence movie.

The second article is called “Why Some People Love Horror Movies While Others Hate Them”. The writer stated his idea about the reason why different people have different attitude towards horror movies. He showed that the excitation transfer process, different Wiring, gender and novelty are the reasons to distinguish people who like horror movies or not. Just like Tartakkovsky said “Since danger disrupts routine, curiosity about change is important for survival. Sparks equated the pull of frightening films to stopping at the scene of a gory accident: ‘You don’t see that every day,’ he said.”( Tartakkovsky ) Sometimes people could not see the horrible accident in their daily life and they can feel it in horror movies. This experience is valuable. They can feel it just like it is true.  Carroll said that “we are attracted to, and many of us seek out, horror fictions of this sort despite the fact that they are provoke disgust, because that disgust is required for the pleasure involved in engaging our curiosity in the unknown and drawing it into the processes of revelation, ratiocination, etc.”(Carroll 284) The horror movies is same as the frictions, both of them need people’s curiosity. Even though horror is disgust, it can give people some unusual experience. People need these kind of horror to support their lives. Perhaps some people think it is sick, but it is necessary to cater people’s curiosity.

Bibliography:

O’Brien, Lucy (September  9, 2013). The Curious Appeal of Horror Movies. Retrieved from http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/the-curious-appeal-of-horror-movies

Carroll, N. (2002). Why Horror?. In Neill, A. & Riley, A. (Eds.) Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (2nd ed., pp. 275-294). New York, NY: Routledge.

Tartakovsky, M. (2012, October 28). Why some people love horror movies while others hate them. Retrieved from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/31/why-some-people-love-horror-movies-while-others-hate-them