Movies  

    Horror films are designed to breach and take over a huge weakness in all of us; our emotions. By doing so, horror films bring the fear and anxiety out of us, but why do people like to watch scary movies? There are many theories on why people watch them. Some of them are:

1) For the thrill of being scared
2)To get away from the troubles of our daily lives
3)Proving that you could tolerate a scary film





http://accessscience.com/studycenter.aspx?main=18&questionID=5338

The Ring

    The Ring is a popular movie that turns a luxury of watching t.v into a virtual nightmare. In the movie, people are victims of an urban legend and end up watching a video that supposedly kills you in 7 days. The main character, Rachel Keller, is a victim of this video. Before watching it, Rachel's niece and 3 best friends died and Rachel goes to investigate. She stumbles upon the video while searching the cabin where they were last seen and decides to watch it. Because of this, Rachel and her son only have 7 days to live while they search for the way to save their own lives.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qttT_10QGQ0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/plotsummary

Scream (1996)

Like other scary movies which exploit the places where we feel the safest, in the movie Scream, our "safe haven" being exploited here is under the confines of our houses. A serial killer going by the rules of scary movies is going around the neighborhood killing teens. The main character, Sidney, suspects that the serial killer has something to do with her mother's death.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/plotsummary

One Missed Call (2008)

    In the movie, One Missed Call, people recieve a voice mail from the future. Now of course this isn't your ordinary voice mail. It is actually a voice mail from the future telling when they will die. The thing is about this movie is that the fear it provides makes the characters in the movie feel that they aren't safe no matter where they are. Even a simple phone call might make us victims of fear.
     The main character, Beth Raymond, is investigating the series of deaths of her loved ones and links it back to these mysterious voice mails. Throughout the movie, Beth is trying to escape her fate.








http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479968/plotsummary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1F7hJNsi5M

Final Destination (2000)

The fear that Final Destination plays on may make us viewers the most uncomfortable. It plays on the fear of death, and that it can come from anywhere. The scariest thing of all is that the "killer" is a supernatural force that we can't actually see. The movie is about a boy named Alex who is on a trip to France. While boarding their plane, he gets a premonition that everyone on the plane will die from a plane explosion. Alex and his friends are kicked of the plane, and to their surprise, the plane explodes. Alex and his friends thought they cheated Death, but Death is not one that can be cheated. The group gets into Death's game while one by one, each of them die. Alex, while in this game, tries to outmaneuver Death. While doing so, Alex also has to escape from the FBI who think that Alex caused the plane  explosion.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP4Psj7d1ZI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/plotsummary

T.V Shows 

Fear Factor
Scare Tactics

Bizzare Foods by Andrew Zimmerman

Bizarre Foods is a show where Andrew Zimmerman travels around the world to experience the variety of foods from different cultures. His passion and his job is to simply eat some of the most out of the ordinary food on the planet. His adventures takes him into some of the interestingly tasty foods, to the scariest and unbelievable foods that would leave us wondering; why did he just eat that? The following video shows one of the most fearful yet, funniest experiences of Andrew Zimmerman.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCOSt-709w&list=SL