This week\'s film: It Follows (should still be available on Netflix) Cantor et a

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This week's film: It Follows (should still be available on Netflix)

Cantor et al. present propose categories of environmental stimuli that tend to induce fear in real life are those that are most often used to elicit fear in scary movies. The authors go on to develop three specific categories of these types of "scares". Identify and describe two examples of each category in this week's film. Are any other categories of stimuli suggested in the film? If so, identify and describe an example. The authors go on to describe possible long term effects of the viewing of horror films in children and include retrospective vignettes of adults looking back upon having seen horror films as children. What memories do you have of having seen scary movies as a child? Do you agree with the author's conclusions regarding the long term effect of viewing films? This week's film: It Follows (should still be available on Netflix)

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Horror movies do evoke many negative emotions in the individuals while watching them, but the effects that it leaves on a person may vary due to the individual differences. There are three specific categories of "scares" which are as follows:

There have been several examples which has been covered under these three headings.

There can be long term effects on viewing of horror films in children as they can evoke fear in them. They can learn this vicariously and get scared with many things around them, similar sounds can scare them, darkness can also scare them. When talking with adults, I did come across some adults talking about their fears which have been related to their childhood experiences of watching horror movies but this was seen in a few individuals.

My personal experience with watching a horror movie has been fine as I did not get scared after watching the movie, while watching it there have been several scenes which sacred me but not after that. I do agree with the author's conclusion regarding the long term effects of viewing these horror movies but these cannot be generalized to a larger population.

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