This horror movie isn’t scary?

We all watch horror movies. The moment we finish watching them, many of us would be like, “Man, that aint so scary.” This is quite peculiar. In spite of being scared and afraid, why do we say that we weren’t afraid of a particular horror film?

There are many reasons for that, firstly, we get scared during a horror film for various reasons such as the sound effect, the visuals or the anticipation on our part about what’s going to happened. But when we finish watching the film, we stop feeling the effects. Hence, we do not feel afraid of that film anymore.

Moreover, we do not possess a memory; at least not everyone possesses the memory to remember all the visuals and the scary scenes in the film and the reasons behind them. So it’s simple, the moment you finish watching a horror film, that’s the end of the story. You are no longer affected by the film and its techniques to scare you. And well, we humans by nature like to boast a lot. When someone endures to watch a scary film and calls it normal, we would definitely feel that the guy is having great guts. So, for various reasons people do say that horror films do not scare them, but yes. Almost every horror film scares us. There is a psychological factor behind it even. Before going into the theatre itself, we have psychologically programmed ourselves that it is a horror film and we get scared. So, our mind per se waits for chances to feel the anticipation and get afraid.