The media uses real fears and repackages them as entertainment and sells them back to us, these can be in forms of Movies, TV shows, Music or even through Video Games. Here is a mind map including some of the fears people may experience and examples of films thats uses them as a base or the theme.
Theories for scary films
Aristotle - believe in Catharsis where we watch violent/negative images to purge supressed emotions
Zolf Zillman - Excitation theory, by experiencing negative and scary imagery we intensify the positive, we enjoy seeing the negative images being vanquished
Glen D Walters - what makes a film scary - tension/suspense, created using narrative and filming techniques. Relevance, the fears explored are relevant to the audience they 'believe'.
Unrealism, we know we are safe therefore we can experiment and explore with these fears.
*This is a mind map showing some of the reasons why we watch scary movies
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