Is it a feeling, a physical thing or maybe even just a figure of our imagination?
What feeling do you get when you experience fear?
Fear for me is the unknown. When I'm watching a film or tv series that has me on the edge of my seat it's the not knowing that invokes fear in me.
The way in which todays 'gothic horror' genre creates a sense of fear is to take us, as the audience, into another world where anything can happen and does happen and that stimulates a sense of fear and we're left wondering what will happen next.
An example of a modern day gothic horror tv series that has become extremely famous world wide is 'American Horror Story'. The way the characters change every series keeps the audience on their toes as well as knew characters being introduced. But what makes this so frightening? A character from a film surely can't be real. This is where I think the fear comes in, when horror is introduced into a known 'normal' society in films we start to picture that this could actually happen, to us; and the creators of tv series and films want to create that feeling of it being so real that we are fearful of it. A known fear of many people and children for example could be a clown.
The reason we may fear clowns is that they have become humanized and what are meant to be friendly children's entertainers can now be seen as something of a common fear for some people.This character 'Twisty' from American Horror Story: Freak Show has been taunted and teased in his career as a clown so much that he disfigures himself and ends up becoming the bad guy and as you can see he's pretty scary! The fact that these are humans and real people in the series makes me a little scared as I watch them as it makes you think could this really happen?
Fear is different for everyone, some people see fear in something physical in a person or character etc and some people see fear in nature, in make believe animals or even a fear of water or heights. For some people fear can take over their lives or prevent them from doing things. So fear is very real for all of us but in what form 'fear' comes in is what differs...
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