Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Freewrite: Why Horror Films?


Horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear. So why do people enjoying watching horror films? I don’t understand why you would want to feel overwhelmed and be in fear just because you enjoy watching a horror movie. People must have really sick minds if they enjoy people getting slaughtered, beaten, and tortured by other people in such movies. What drives them to watch movies like these? What do they enjoy about it? I talked to a lot of my friends that like to watch horror movies and they said they like them because they are funny cause of how unreal they are. To me that makes no sense. How is it funny to watch people die unwillingly? They say that the movies are not true and so unreal but if you really thing about it, there are people that are killing other people out there just like in these movies. Since 1960 to 2010 the crime rate has went up by 305,361,338. There are some crazy people out there that have or will do terrible things to people and it not even affect them. That’s why I think it’s a horrible idea for people to let their brains watch horror movies because I think it could someday have an impact on people in the future if they watch too many of them. Maybe by watching them it may cause them to think that maybe it’s ok to do these because it’s funny to them. Hopefully no one is thinking like that when they watch horror films but we will never know because everyone is different and has their own thoughts.

2 comments:

  1. Fun topic! Consider organizing your ideas into paragraphs to help your reader follow your "argument."

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  2. My friends tend to watch horror movies because in most horror movies, there are things jumping out at you, causing you to jump. It gives you an adrenaline rush without doing something dangerous (ie bungee jumping, skydiving, etc). Also, I don't think that the horror movies are going to cause more people to kill/torture other any more than Wile E. Coyote is going to cause young children to ride explosives in an attempt to catch a roadrunner. You're arguments are very well supported though.

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