Post by auntym on Oct 27, 2012 19:28:53 GMT -6
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October 27, 2012
We Like To Be Scared![/color]
By Paul Schroeder
The Haunting of Hill House", by Shirley Jackson, titled,"The Haunting", in its movie version terrified me and I have yet to see a scarier movie.
Goose bumps still have goose bumps when I recall this film horror and subsequent viewing still chills my bones to its marrow..
"The Exorcist", touted and deemed the scariest movie ever made, however, fails "The Haunting's" fear 'test', as almost all of Stephen King's pop- culture-horror movies, also do.
Films of "Horror" fail, when the "thing to be feared", is seen on film and is simply too explicit.
Horror films' effects generally fail to deeply terrify an audience because the film depends heavily on visual special effects in order to scare the viewing audience.
The psychological trouble, with an audience's lack of fear, not being scared by a horror movie, emerges when the viewer can clearly and actually SEE and OBSERVE that creature who is supposed to be scary.
Viewers watching a ghost or monster film, easily subdue and avert fear and internally say,"well, looking at it, it's sort of ok, but not THAT scary..."
But we LOVE to be scared.
Delicious fear can be achieved and sustained in a film only and oddly if the monster or ghost or ghoul in question, remains mysteriously unseen/ unknown.
Now, fear blossoms as the viewer's mind can engage imaginatively and creatively.
The scary but elusive unseen monster can now eat away and privately gnaw at the viewers' imaginative minds.
As an example, the unseen movements of the shark, below the camera's water line focus, in the movie "Jaws", generates the most terror in the viewers' minds and adds enormous weight to this 'test", a measure of terror, often ruined by the very graphic nature of most horror genre films.
There's nothing left for the mind to imagine. It's all there to be seen, in black and white or in color and thus, really not that scary, after all.
The sole exception, in Horror film genres, to this unspoken rule of scaring viewing audiences, is the first part, the first two hours of, the Stephen King movie,"IT", a film beginning that is absolute in its terror and horror, despite graphic depiction of the demon.
But even the exceptions, prove the rule.
When the Monster, or ghost or demon is THERE, but unseen, always just around the corner, internal and real fear can begin to mount and blossom in the minds of an audience viewing a horror movie.
The movie, "The Haunting" does precisely this, and it succeeds in badly scaring the viewer and it violates the human pleasure of being able to control being just a little afraid.
Just like our minds' enjoying action- theme parks which feature dangerous attractions and rides, the comparable human need is to be, safely afraid.
We will pay good money for fun houses, carnival rides, roller coasters, horror films and Halloween, to satisfy that need to be only safely scared.
The movie,"The Haunting", discards that 'safety' aspect(the original, starring Julie Harris and Russ Tamblyn) and inspires viewer goose bumps, to have goose bumps "The Haunting", differs greatly from banal pop culture monster/ ghost horror thrillers in every important way; we must completely imagine the monster.
The authoress, Shirley Jackson, stated that she, "never slept in her bedroom without the lights full on" and I suspect, as I do the same, that I know precisely what she experienced that might have motivated her to write that story into a book.
Some things really scary repulse us in an odd enjoyable way.
Juxtapose the impotent silly fear generated by the popular movie, "Halloween", a Jack-in -the-box graphic 'slasher movie', popular with people who have likely never seen the film, "The Haunting".
We like to be scared, safely
For the same reason we like a roller coaster ride; although we are scared , we always feel sure that the horrific and life- threatening ride will certainly deposit us, safely, at the end, so that we can walk away, unharmed.
We foist this odd joy of being scared safely onto our holiday, of Halloween.
The holiday, itself, is a creepy harbinger of fear that is totally pleasurable.
.
CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/we-be-scared
October 27, 2012
We Like To Be Scared![/color]
By Paul Schroeder
The Haunting of Hill House", by Shirley Jackson, titled,"The Haunting", in its movie version terrified me and I have yet to see a scarier movie.
Goose bumps still have goose bumps when I recall this film horror and subsequent viewing still chills my bones to its marrow..
"The Exorcist", touted and deemed the scariest movie ever made, however, fails "The Haunting's" fear 'test', as almost all of Stephen King's pop- culture-horror movies, also do.
Films of "Horror" fail, when the "thing to be feared", is seen on film and is simply too explicit.
Horror films' effects generally fail to deeply terrify an audience because the film depends heavily on visual special effects in order to scare the viewing audience.
The psychological trouble, with an audience's lack of fear, not being scared by a horror movie, emerges when the viewer can clearly and actually SEE and OBSERVE that creature who is supposed to be scary.
Viewers watching a ghost or monster film, easily subdue and avert fear and internally say,"well, looking at it, it's sort of ok, but not THAT scary..."
But we LOVE to be scared.
Delicious fear can be achieved and sustained in a film only and oddly if the monster or ghost or ghoul in question, remains mysteriously unseen/ unknown.
Now, fear blossoms as the viewer's mind can engage imaginatively and creatively.
The scary but elusive unseen monster can now eat away and privately gnaw at the viewers' imaginative minds.
As an example, the unseen movements of the shark, below the camera's water line focus, in the movie "Jaws", generates the most terror in the viewers' minds and adds enormous weight to this 'test", a measure of terror, often ruined by the very graphic nature of most horror genre films.
There's nothing left for the mind to imagine. It's all there to be seen, in black and white or in color and thus, really not that scary, after all.
The sole exception, in Horror film genres, to this unspoken rule of scaring viewing audiences, is the first part, the first two hours of, the Stephen King movie,"IT", a film beginning that is absolute in its terror and horror, despite graphic depiction of the demon.
But even the exceptions, prove the rule.
When the Monster, or ghost or demon is THERE, but unseen, always just around the corner, internal and real fear can begin to mount and blossom in the minds of an audience viewing a horror movie.
The movie, "The Haunting" does precisely this, and it succeeds in badly scaring the viewer and it violates the human pleasure of being able to control being just a little afraid.
Just like our minds' enjoying action- theme parks which feature dangerous attractions and rides, the comparable human need is to be, safely afraid.
We will pay good money for fun houses, carnival rides, roller coasters, horror films and Halloween, to satisfy that need to be only safely scared.
The movie,"The Haunting", discards that 'safety' aspect(the original, starring Julie Harris and Russ Tamblyn) and inspires viewer goose bumps, to have goose bumps "The Haunting", differs greatly from banal pop culture monster/ ghost horror thrillers in every important way; we must completely imagine the monster.
The authoress, Shirley Jackson, stated that she, "never slept in her bedroom without the lights full on" and I suspect, as I do the same, that I know precisely what she experienced that might have motivated her to write that story into a book.
Some things really scary repulse us in an odd enjoyable way.
Juxtapose the impotent silly fear generated by the popular movie, "Halloween", a Jack-in -the-box graphic 'slasher movie', popular with people who have likely never seen the film, "The Haunting".
We like to be scared, safely
For the same reason we like a roller coaster ride; although we are scared , we always feel sure that the horrific and life- threatening ride will certainly deposit us, safely, at the end, so that we can walk away, unharmed.
We foist this odd joy of being scared safely onto our holiday, of Halloween.
The holiday, itself, is a creepy harbinger of fear that is totally pleasurable.
.
CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/we-be-scared