Blogpost 2: The Visual Of Fear

After a long time of hard thinking, I came to a point of decision. Where the hell will I direct my blog. We were given 7 branches of studies and was told to pick one. All of them were catchy, but what my heart desired is the concept of Aesthetics since I was really in to art and the beauty of stuff.  So what is aesthetics? Its basically a nature of art. In horror's case it has something to do with visual and audio aspects.

Many film writers succeeded into creating the perfect horror. Most famous would be Stephen King. Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, and yes, all of them are worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent works are Cell, and Bag of Bones, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis all of which are from the famous Dark Tower novels.

But I'm not really a fan of Stephen King. But he inspired me to look deeper into the perspectives of Horror. Especially when it comes to aesthetics. Most likely, this is the reason why people love being scared a lot. So here is something from an article I entitled "Why we crave horror movies" by Stephen King that I found at www.vcsd.k12.ny.us.

When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare.

Stephen King's article explains the overall thought of what horror has to offer. In fact, this article is well known to the approach of this particular topic. He emphasizes the insanity in each person. By watching horror we exercise our tendencies to go insane without action. He writes, "horror provides psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality and madness is so extended so rarely." There is the potential to manifest insanity in each person and the concept of horror let's that bit of one soul go screaming and this is all because of the visual fear of horror.