25 Sort by: Add a Comment emore2 • 3 yr. ago It may be validating for some people who feel subjectively dead or eviscerated. Another commenter said it feels like a coping mechanism - that may be because gore confirms that things happen to people (physically) that the individual feels has already happened to them (emotionally). PlaSPeN • 3 yr. ago The psychology of gore: Why do we like graphic blood and guts in our entertainment? Graphic movies and games have been targets of puritans — but psychologists say they can actually be healthy.
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FrozenTruffle • 2 yr. ago This is my reason. I was one of those kids who watched that kind of stuff in middleschool and sometimes even today. It is oddly mentally arousing in some fashion. I am a horror/disturbing movie fan and oddities collector, so early on you could say it sparked a curiousity for the macabre. moogula1992 • 2 yr. ago Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, a professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Ultrecht, explains his theory as to why we love horror quite matter-of-factly: "People go to horror films because they want to be frightened or they wouldn't do it twice." June 22, 2014, 3:18 AM People enjoy a horror film in this undated file photo. Getty Images -- If you've seen the movies "The Godfather," "Fargo" or "Psycho," chances are you remember one scene from each of those flicks so vividly that it seems like you watched it just yesterday. According to a research published by Doctor Deirdre Johnston in the 1995 issue of Human Communication Research, looking into motivations for viewing graphic horror, "gore watchers typically had low empathy, high sensation seeking, and [among males only] a strong identification with the killer."
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Can't wait for the next slasher? You're not alone our bloodthirsty friend. What is our fascination with gore and violence in videos? In this video, we look into gore through history, the internet, and how it affects the brain. 0:0. A recent study from researchers at the University of Augsburg, Germany and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that people are more likely to watch movies with gory scenes of violence if. Exposure to terrifying acts, or even the anticipation of those acts, can stimulate us — both mentally and physically — in opposing ways: negatively (in the form of fear or anxiety) or positively.
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The Thrill of Gore Horror: Why People Love It • The Thrill of Gore Horror • Discover why people are drawn to gore horror films and the intense emotions they. Fear - especially "controlled/safe" is exciting, it's why people go on rides and rollercoasters etc. etc. people like to get close to that sensation without the actual danger or risk. It can be different things for different people, I guess for those of us congregating here, we got exposed to horror and we found "our way" of scratching that itch.
For centuries, people have always been terrified by ogres, children-eating wolves in fairy tales, vampires and more recently by movies such as the Exorcist. As well as a whole range of series showcasing murderers and monsters: The Walking Dead, Dexter, Mindhunter, American Horror Story, etc. So why do we enjoy being confronted with horror? These people certainly didn't get to be. I like to think I'm not like the commenters on BestGore---who call murdered women "bitches who deserved it" and LOL at "incompetent" Mexican.
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Then came BestGore, which I think I found while looking up 'why do people like gore?' and was sucked into it. After that, I slowly found all of the other resources I now use to watch gore." While the reasons cited in research on why viewers seek shocking content are manifold, one in particular seems to jump out in most cases: the presumed. Bumpy to near-nauseating at times, the shooting was done in seven days in 2006 with a crew of three at writer-director Oren Peli's San Diego house. With hardly a drop of blood, suspense builds.
