1	Horror Movies Travis Boldt Megan Sicking Erika Macias Caitlin Schopper Jacqueline Zepeda
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3	THE SCIENTIFIC FORMULA FOR A PERFECT SCARY MOVIE (es+u+cs+t)² +s+ (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n + sin x - 1.
4	Which is just a fancy way of saying… (escalating music + the unknown + chase scenes + sense of being trapped)² + shock (true life + fantasy)/2 + (character is alone + in the dark + film setting)/number of people + blood and guts - stereotypes
5	Ingredients to Scary Movies Lights Sound Characters Story Setting There are two types of scary movies: Suggestive Horror Films Splatter Horror Films
6	Suggestive Horror Films
7	Splatter Horror Films Rely on the shock impact of blood and guts to frighten their audience Typical slasher films.
8	One Person’s Opinion Without a doubt, for me the most scary element in any movie are little children, younger than about 8, girls, twins in dresses, like brides-maid dresses. Even this as a single static picture can be horrifying as well as just words describing them. I'm not sure what it is about this, but once the image is on your head it's hard to get out and forget. Even as i type, the images keep flashing in my head. Matt, Tasmania, Australia
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20	Why Do We Like Scary Movies?
21	"Your heart is racing" Your heart is racing, the hair is standing up on the back of your neck, you’re breaking out in a nervous sweat… Why did you do this to yourself? To test your limits? To conquer your fears? To escape from the real world? For the adrenaline rush?
22	Pushing The Limit According to Leon Rappoport, professor of psychology at Kansas State University, it is a natural human desire to find out what your limits are. By watching scary movies, we test our boundaries and find out how much fear and anxiety we can handle.
23	Have No Fear After discovering what we fear most (as far as horror themes go) we try to push past our fear limit and master our anxiety. Freudians believe that we enjoy embracing our fears for the challenge of overcoming them.
24	Escapism Many people say they watch scary movies as a distraction from their real lives. It is easier to watch a movie about improbable horrors than to face the real struggles in your own life.
25	Adrenaline Many people watch scary movies for the same reason they ride roller coasters- the thrill. The more civilized society gets, the more we repress our animalistic nature. One way to release our uncivilized desires is to watch scary movies for the adrenaline rush.
26	Hypothesis Because Horror Movies play off of our fears, we should see a strong correlation between the subjects of horror films and common fears.
27	"1" 1. Spiders 2. Social Situation (Speaking in Public) 3. Flying 4. Open Spaces 5. Closed Space 6. Vomiting 7. Heights 8. Cancer 9. Thunder/Lightning 10. Death
28	Why the Incongruity? Logic would say that Movies based on more peoples fears would be more popular, or, conversely, that more people would be afraid of the subjects which are more commonly seen in movies. Movies subjects with a stronger psychological attachment would provide a better adrenaline rush, a more efficient means of escape, and better chance to conquer our fears This link does not exist, as a matter of fact, on most lists you have to look well past the 50’s in order to even find a Spider Movie even mentioned. Not adequately described by a fear of death or personal harm. No one who watches a movie actually expects to be hurt by anything on screen. And Very few people develop fears based on movies they watched.
29	"We watch what is visually..." We watch what is visually ‘appealing’ or fun to watch. No one wants to watch a movie about open spaces or speaking in public. As a matter of fact, if a movie were made about many of our Top 10 Phobias, we would not even classify them as horror films. It seems that we are more fixated on watching subjects which distance ourselves from those psychological fears. We are enticed to watch ‘things that go bump in the night’ than what we are actually afraid of. This goes right back to Freud, in efforts to escape our actual fears we find smaller, less significant things to startle us. We may also be drawn by the false sense of accomplishment that would come in overcoming
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