Why I hate horror movies

Horror films, who needs them?

I have to tell you I, I’m not a a fan of blood sucking, flesh ripping, cannibalistic monsters. Though they are only models of perverse imagination; these aberrations live on long after they flicker from the movie screen. Every closet is a potential portal for shadow lurking menaces to appear and what of them? Well there’s a good chance your life will be in mortal danger. Now back to reality…

The horror film industry is one lucrative cash cow. Now think about it for a moment: these programs have one of the lowest production budgets, make the highest profit margin per flick and are watched repetitively over a long period of time. Next to porn films, horror flicks rule. When interest for high budget block busters have little more than flickered out, titles such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho, Poltergeist, Amity Ville Horror and The Exorcist are still in high demand.

It is true, I am ashamed to admit to seeing all these programs in my younger years. After all I had an older brother who couldn’t get enough of the violence. He was hooked, line and brick sinker. It still doesn’t change my view, not in the least; horror films do not tickle my fancy. My distaste stems on the unthinkable, the what if factor. Now I know what you are thinking, what exactly is this so called what if factor?

OK, let’s put it in simple terms; you know that feeling you get when you wake up in the middle of the night after a nightmare? There’s that one split second when all things that are improbable, demented and without instantiated proof seem a little less well, impossible. yes I’m talking about the fabled boogie man, the dismembered hand, tortured spirits and let’s not leave the imagined serial killer out. This fear is something of primal nature, the will to protect our loved ones as well as self preservation take a whole new meaning when we are up against the unknown. In an essence fear makes us act.

Could it be that this type of strange reaction is something genetically passed down from our prehistoric ancestors? It would seem only logical. After all humans have not always been on top of the food chain. There was a time when man was hunted down by saber tigers and other creatures of the like. Though these tigers have long since become extinct, they may have left an lasting impression.

So it makes one wonder, if fear is such a terrible feeling why would anyone want to experience it over and