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horror!
Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
September 12, 2021
Horror movies are movies that you either adore or avoid at all costs.
Logically, we must escape from what scares us, but horror films have a kind of attraction and have a huge share of audiences, not like the action and comedy share, but it is a share that is never underestimated.
There are several reasons why horror cinema is so appealing: the tension, the connection between an element of the film and the audience, and the lack of realism.
For some, watching a horror movie is a mysterious and shocking experience.
Others watch it because their lives are similar to the lives of the film's heroes, as teenagers scramble for a horror movie starring a teenage girl who is always misunderstood.
Or if the viewer himself had an experience such as being bullied or engaged in a hand-to-hand fight, or an attempted murder, or entered a difficult experience when moving to a new house that made sounds at night, or had a knot of black cats whose eyes shine at night, or heard A lot about the stories of jinn and demons from his mother and grandmother, and watching the movie brings all those stories to his mind.
And those who watch the horror and enjoy it knowing its unreality, and that it will not go off the screen, just like visitors to the zoo who stand in front of a lion's cage without any fear of its roar.
There is a segment of people who find in horror a preparatory or training experience for something else that is actually frightening or stressful.
For example, entering a horror movie and experiencing it and then leaving the experience prepares this segment for entering into difficult life situations, such as asking for a promotion at work or engaging in the experience of giving a speech to an audience.
Attitude
One year after the US invasion of Iraq, and six months after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the movie Saw was released in the cinemas, about a man obsessed with kidnapping people he chooses carefully and making them death traps and torture games.
The film found an American and international audience thirsting for unreal blood away from the grim news.
The movie turned into a series that ran until the end of that decade and generated more than $1 billion in revenue from selling tickets, sets, renting and buying DVDs, according to this year's statistic.
Attitude
On September 8, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho opened in New York City.
The hall was filled with journalists and the public (1,500 people).
The critic Peter Bogdanovich was present, and he said: In the famous shower scene in which Janet Lee was killed at the beginning of the film, the audience was hysterical and screaming from the force of the scene in which the heroine was stabbed, and he broke all known rules of horror, and the screams of the masses were so loud that they covered Movie music sound.
"Psycho" was the film that was ridiculed by Paramount studio executives and refused to finance, so Hitchcock financed it with his own money.
Then they said to him: Why would a legend like you make a movie about a lonely man who works in a small hotel?
But the vision of the legend was as clear as the sun, the star dies in the beginning and thus the man casts terror into the hearts of the masses when they find themselves alone in the hall with the killer.
After Seiko, all the rules of horror changed and he became a role model.
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