The horror genre is one of the linchpins of modern cinema, attracting a large portion of the cinema going audience with big hits like paranormal activity. It is odd then that most people who go to see these films report an unpleasant experience, words associated with recent horror films I’ve seen are ‘grim’ ‘gruesome’ ‘gory’ disturbing’ and ‘depressing’. Despite this negativity associated with it the horror genre, viewers are not deterred, in fact it seems the more dank and eerie the better? Is it the sense of suspended reality? Is it that it makes us appreciate our own, sedate, uneventful lives, or is it the addictive adrenaline rush we get akin to being on a rollercoaster ride that keeps us coming back time and time again?
I’m an avid horror nut but can’t put my finger on exactly what it is that attracts me like a magnet in the theater to watch innocent people get bludgeoned to death, I have however identified the different ways in which horrors evoke emotion. For example, I’m particularly vulnerable to horrors that generate their scares with shocking or disturbing images, a recent example might be splice.
Others horrors like Saw and Hostel employ gore to shock and horrify, for some reason I don’t find the sight of someone having their arm amputated with a rusty nail too traumatic, maybe there’s something wrong with me? The other type of scare tactic I’ve identified is the jumpy horror, as the name suggests, this kind of film involves lost of sudden shocks that keep the viewer on tenterhooks, always trying to second guess what’s going to happen next, and often failing!
Whatever kind of horror films you like us fans are united in our love of being scared, I find watching a horror film to be a much more rewarding and exhilarating experience than any other kind of film can provide, I just needs a loan, or pożyczki as the Polish say and maybe a loan calculator, or a kalkulator kredytowyas the Polish retort, themselves big fans of horror.