Revealed the reason for the love of horror films

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Are you amazed that some people love to watch horror movies? Yes, they just terribly like to feel unhappy, American psychologists assure.

Psychologists from the University of Berkeley (California) and the University of Florida have proposed a new theory that explains why people love horror films, which colorfully display severed heads, rivers of blood and other eerie spectacles that exploit exclusively negative emotions.

"Horror films, whatever one may say, are emotional films. They cause fear, and fear is stress, and stress is adrenaline and emotions. If a person lacks adrenaline in life, then he may well make up for it by watching horror films," - says the famous Russian psychotherapist Andrei Kurpatov

Previously, experts explained this phenomenon using two assumptions. Firstly, when a person watches such an action, he is not afraid, but only experiences a feeling of slight excitement. Another explanation is that two hours of fear are necessary so that at the end of the film, regardless of how the story described in it ends, the viewer experiences euphoria, freeing himself from a terrible sight and nightmarish sounds. In both cases, this is not entirely normal, but mild deviations have never been considered as something really dangerous.

Psychologists of the new theory believe that the whole point is that people who like to watch horror movies are happy because they feel unhappy. They simply enjoy the fear, and the more terrifying, the more enjoyment they get. This is such a strange passion in the best traditions of masochism. However, as scientists assure, it is better to show self-pity in this way than to annoy others about their problems, causing, at best, a feeling of slight irritation in the interlocutor.