Movie "IT"
By Mike Shoesmith
So I was listening to the BBC the other day and they were discussing a recent brouhaha over the horror movie genre - apparently somebody somewhere commented that perhaps horror movies were on their way out and then some movie producer somewhere tweeted something about getting support from the public for the horror movie industry. So the BBC picked up on this and found a couple of drug addicts who were huge horror movie fans and interviewed them on one of their shows and I just happened to be able to listen in - well - I had it playing in the background. But I really began paying attention when I heard that one of the drug addicts they were interviewing was a minister in England! The other was a woman. Now - why do I keep calling them drug addicts? Let me explain in a bit but check this out - when the minister was asked why he was such a fan of horror movies he said he supposed it goes to the result of evolution - the fight or flight response generated in the brain and the resulting rush he gets from that. And I couldn't help wishing I could reach out to this minister and explain to him that fish-to-man deep-time evolution is a stinking corpse that atheists and atheist ditto-heads have strapped to the backs of David Attenborough and his ilk and recruited them to prance around the city square like a weekend at Bernies proclaiming "it's not dead, it's merely resting." But anyway the reason I refer to them as drug addicts is the same reason I refer to people who watch porn and go to strip clubs as drug addicts. When a man sees a naked or partially clad woman an involuntary chemical release happens in the pleasure center of the brain... most notably dopamine! So if if we refer to porn watchers and strip club attendees as DOPES we wouldn't be far off on that one. But check out this horror movie research which has been done by the science experts who study this stuff.
So I was listening to the BBC the other day and they were discussing a recent brouhaha over the horror movie genre - apparently somebody somewhere commented that perhaps horror movies were on their way out and then some movie producer somewhere tweeted something about getting support from the public for the horror movie industry. So the BBC picked up on this and found a couple of drug addicts who were huge horror movie fans and interviewed them on one of their shows and I just happened to be able to listen in - well - I had it playing in the background. But I really began paying attention when I heard that one of the drug addicts they were interviewing was a minister in England! The other was a woman. Now - why do I keep calling them drug addicts? Let me explain in a bit but check this out - when the minister was asked why he was such a fan of horror movies he said he supposed it goes to the result of evolution - the fight or flight response generated in the brain and the resulting rush he gets from that. And I couldn't help wishing I could reach out to this minister and explain to him that fish-to-man deep-time evolution is a stinking corpse that atheists and atheist ditto-heads have strapped to the backs of David Attenborough and his ilk and recruited them to prance around the city square like a weekend at Bernies proclaiming "it's not dead, it's merely resting." But anyway the reason I refer to them as drug addicts is the same reason I refer to people who watch porn and go to strip clubs as drug addicts. When a man sees a naked or partially clad woman an involuntary chemical release happens in the pleasure center of the brain... most notably dopamine! So if if we refer to porn watchers and strip club attendees as DOPES we wouldn't be far off on that one. But check out this horror movie research which has been done by the science experts who study this stuff.
From inverse.com
Horror movies are so terrifyingly effective because, on a subconscious level, your brain thinks you're actually about to be murdered. When you're sitting and watching a screen, the motor regions of your brain turn off as your body relaxes. But on a conscious level, your brain is aware that this movie isn't real life.Scary movies bypass the conscious parts of the brain to tap directly into the fight or flight response. It begins in the amygdala, which responds immediately to anything that looks like a threat, regardless of how real it actually is. The amygdala sounds the alarm to your body, first activating the hypothalamus, which tells your adrenal glands to inject you with a big boost of adrenaline. This causes the heart to pump faster and faster, delivering more oxygen to the muscles in case you need to fight something or run away.The Exorcist may not be real, but your brain isn't going to take any chances.The most effective element of a horror movie, though, isn't even the on-screen monsters, but rather the background music. The screechy, discordant, non-linear noises that build and crescendo sound enough like a baby's scream that they activate the same genetically hardwired response pathway that a wailing child does.
Now check this out...
One reason for this is linked to addiction pathways. The adrenaline released from a fear response can cause a viewer to seek out that sensation again and again. Our love of all things horror may also stem from the Arousal Transfer Theory, suggesting that negative emotions created by scary situations can intensify the positive feelings we experience when the characters make it out alive.
So there you have it! Just like the porn freaks and strip club junkies, you're just another drug addict looking for a fix!
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