This blog is one that I'm doing out of sheer interest to chronicle my own knowledge and discoveries on the art of fear. Afterall, if Sun-tzu can chronicle his entire art of war, then I feel I should do the same on how to scare people and what makes them shiver and the many kinds of fear. Afterall, fear isn't just "AAHHH that was so scary!". Fear can also come in the shape of bone chilling, or the testing of one's mental fortitude before they break.
I think the one place that can really learn something from this is Hollywood. I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this at all, but Hollywood's ability to create horror films has decreased over the years. Eventually they're resorting to fads in the horror movie industry that scare people without really knowing why. All I've heard from directors is guesses on why it scares audiences, and why it would affect them so. Of course, most of these guesses have been more or less wrong and hopefully through this blog I can explain why they're wrong and why I believe the real reason something is scary to humans.
But the one blatant reason I want to start this blog is just because I have a strange curiosity with fear. Ever since I was a kid and I started getting scared at the smallest thing, a question would pop up into my mind "what am I afraid of? Why am I afraid of it? What is fear?". As these questions kept popping into my mind, my fear began to burn in the fires of my curiosity. Sure I was afraid, but my fear was stimulated and analyzed in the same way a scientist would coax a rat through a maze and analyze it.
when I watched my first horror movie, I was scared out of my skin. Which caused me to analyze it even more until i could find a way to handle it and even have power over it for my own sense of sanity. As I began watching horror movies religiously though, I began to realize all of the newer and newer scary movies began to be less scary. So, I began studying what made things scary in movies and waht a person can do to become terrifying to some people.
Anyhow, without further ado, we'll begin in a day or two.
