I've often wondered why horror movies had such devoted fans. I know it's not really because you horror film watchers need to feel better about your own lives. Or maybe? Or, maybe you appreciate the score. Many horror films I've seen have some of the best scores in movies. And they (can be) cerebral, primal and physical. I think that the real horror playing out in society would obviate the need. Somehow, the madman-gone-public tragedies at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Co. and then, newer Newtown and its even newer Boston, it's taken the optimism for a safer society, and the fight, right out of me. They say some people like to be scared, to get a charge off it. I believe it. People just want to be scared in different ways. They jump out of airplanes, they go into the burning building, they make unpopular social and political stands, they blow the lid off of NSA domestic spying operations, they martyr. Being scared may not be the primary reason, but it's part of the cockail, from garnish to gut. Would it make sense to say I'm scared that I'm scared? Do you get off on horror movies? Are you scared? Why?
