00:00Why do we pay to be afraid?
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00:05We're going to talk about Halloween and the treatment of horror in film and television series.
00:09If you think things through in life, if you hear a strange noise in your house at 3 a.m.,
00:14Well, normally, you're not going to have a good time.
00:17However, in the cinema, we love it.
00:18We're going to watch movies like The Conjuring, Scream, that kind of thing.
00:21knowing that we might jump, close our eyes, or check under our bed before
00:26sleep.
00:27I also watch too many films like So, because So terrifies me.
00:29This paradox is of real interest to researchers.
00:31There is research on what is called recreational fear.
00:34which notably show that pleasure and fear can coexist.
00:37A study that was conducted in a horror attraction
00:39He even observed that pleasure seems to be at its maximum when fear reaches a certain level.
00:45Too little, and we get bored.
00:46Too much of a good thing makes the experience unpleasant.
00:48Basically, we're playing at being scared.
00:50And in horror movies, there are some that are truly horrific.
00:53And we're just relaxing on our sofa.
00:55But what's fascinating about horror films,
00:58It's not just that he scares us.
01:00He uses our fears: death, the unknown, loneliness, illness, loss of control
01:05and sometimes even our own society.
01:07And these fears have evolved with us.
01:09The monsters that terrified our grandparents
01:11are not necessarily the ones who terrify us today.