What scares Sigmund Freud?

  Yay! A Video! So part of our fascination with scary things is our survival mechanism that gives scary movies such an impact. Funny thing is that the reaction comes from pretty much every part of the brain but the fear center. It also tackles the main attraction to horror, Tension, Relevance, an Unrealism. Tension provokes the most emotion, and is what makes things scary. A movie without tension regardless of genre simply falls flat because it feels like the stakes aren't raised and there is no danger or point to the adventure. Relevance can relate to many things, like the base fear of death, fear of something based in your culture, subgroups, or something personal. Without relevancy you're just sitting there waiting for someone to get hurt. Then unrealism, simply put fantasy violence is something we love, wither it's TV, video games, books, comics, movies, or what have you, fake violence is fun. Real violence on the other hand is really disturbing and makes people uneasy. No one likes real violence. Some theories on our love for scary movies are that it taps into our more basic animal instinct, I personally go with Aristotle who thought that our love for horror and violence came from the release of negative emotion, witch I can stand by, because violent games are what gets me through the tough patches of life.