The Psychology of Scary Movies

1. What are horror films?
2. How to Tension, Relevance and Unrealism play into the the popularity of horror films?

Horror Films are films cerated with the intent to trigger fear within people. There are some fundamental sources of fear that can used to create fear within a film. Such horror films trigger attention from the audience through tension, relevance, and unrealism. Tension can build suspense in a scene, relevance allows the audience to feel the emotions in the character's feet, and unrealism triggers the fear of the unknown. Some of the subgroups of relevance includes universal, cultural, subgroup, and personal. All of these can manipulate the audience's emotional connection to the film.