2007-11-10 15:10:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I think I have a right to ask this question, since I was personally asked to answer this. Will someone please explain to me the psychological benefit from watching horrors movies. My aunt was a big fan of them. And I practically never watch anything that can be exclusively defined as horror. And let's not get into sex wars here. I'm just asking a question. Some men like combat films, but I don't go in much for blood and gore. In fact, I was reluctant to even watch "Saving Private Ryan" for that very reason. For one thing, I don't take pleasure in watching suffering. It just eats at my soul. I am too much of an empath to separate myself through some sort of psychological detachment.
So if someone would explain to me how you sit through it, please let me know. This is just one of those things in life I have no comprehension of.
Shingoshi Dao
2007.Nov.10 Sat, 21:18 --800 (PST)
2007-11-10 16:20:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Very, very disturbing. I haven't seen the Hollywood remake and don't intend to, I'm going by the original Hammer version with Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. When I saw it for the first time and as it became increasingly obvious that Woodward was in deep ****, yet I fervently hoped that there would be a happy ending at the end of the day! (I never knowingly watch gratuitous horror films so I didn't realize that they rarely do!)
... And that final scene when Woodward was being burned up yet praying fervently to save his soul. So sad, so very poignant.
POSTSCRIPT
This is one of those rare occasion when I agree with Shingosh and I've given him a thumbs-up to cancel out that thumbs-down that some sillyhead awarded him.
2007-11-11 00:03:58 · answer #2 · answered by celtish 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes- for two reasons: the callous disregard the women showed for the life of that man, and two: the completely warped and extremely false way that Wiccans were portrayed in this movie. Not even CLOSE to reality. I happen to know a thing or two about Wicca, and Wiccans do not hate men, nor do they sacrifice them. There really is such a thing as a wicker-man ceremony, but it is not at ALL the way it was depicted in this movie. It involves a "straw figure" and yes it's burned, but it's burning has nothing symbolic to do with harming a man or men in general. It's a ceremony where personal problems and issues are symbolically "transferred" to this inanimate object, and are "rid of" through the burning of the straw figure. This movie makes Wiccans look like man-hating, evil, devil-worshiping crazies. Hollywood. Sheesh!
2007-11-10 15:35:46 · answer #3 · answered by It's Ms. Fusion if you're Nasty! 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
I didn't see the original one, but I saw the one with Nicholas Cage and I was disturbed by how bad it was. It wasn't even bad enough to be funny. Ok, maybe it was...
2007-11-10 15:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. I couldn't think of another movie in recent memory that I really wish I hadn't seen.
2007-11-10 15:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by Fortis cadere cedere non potest 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
YES!! UGH! Seriously.....*shivers*
I used to like nicholas cage...lol jk, I still do, but I was disapointed by the movie.
2007-11-10 17:06:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sara For Life 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I blocked out memories of everything but Britt Ekland. So, either she's really gorgeous or I was really traumatized. (Or both.)
2007-11-10 15:19:03 · answer #7 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It was truly a scary movie.
2007-11-10 16:15:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I hated it too. Just trying to make women appear bad and evil as if that hasn't already been tried before. It sucked and I wasted my money with renting that snoozer.
2007-11-10 15:21:39 · answer #9 · answered by Fiona 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As well as wicca, I saw feminism and yes it disturbed me to realize we're (U.S.) very close to it on a national scale.
2007-11-10 23:49:44 · answer #10 · answered by Phil #3 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋