The first article that I found was about a professor of Kansas State University where it says the professor’s opinion on why we like to watch horror movies? Leon Rappoport, is the name of the professor, says that people like to go to watch horror movies because we live in such a civilized society that we feel really safe and we search in horror movies what we do not have in our lives. Also he says that there is much more teenagers that watch horror movies than adults. The reason, according to Rappoport’s opinion is that these teenagers are looking for something new in their lives. They are in a difficult stage in their lives, between children and men, and they are looking for different feeleings so they can find these feelings watching horror movies. Also according to Rappoport : “ There seems to be this general quality that almost all of us share in enjoying a certain level of threatening stimulation or hazardous stimulation,” “The ability to do something that seems to go beyond the usual range of things.”(1).
I agree with Rappoport in the way he thinks about why teenagers go to the horror movies. I think he is right because they go to feel like they are adults. But I do not agree with the last quote of the article, with this quote he is saying that we go to horror movies just for fun, or because horror movies are different but in my opinion there is nothing fun on going to have a hard time to the theatre to watch one of this movies.
‘Why we like horror movies’ Leon Rappoprt’s opinion, (October 1997). Retrieved November 3, 2007, from
www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/NewsReleases/listscarymovies.html
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