Scary movies article

December 19th, 2011 by aki | Posted in General |

Many religions, myths, folk-tales and cults espoused the idea of obtaining the life-essence from blood – in its extreme was the practice of cannibalism. The first is that the person is not actually afraid, but excited by the movie. The findings may explain why it is that over the past 35 years people have had wildly different reactions to the classic horror film, The Exorcist. Scary movies trigger a body-wide reaction in milliseconds, pumping out stress hormones that prime the body for action. Think of when the killer stabbed the person. These impacts are felt by adults as well as children, by the well-adjusted as well as the disturbed.