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serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f02/web2/lbang.html

cells right prefrontal cortex respond 'remarkably rapidly to unpleasant images, which included pictures of mutilation and scenes of war'.

charles darwin says that human emotions and what they relate to is an innate and instinctive response. when his first-born was a few days over six months old, no experience, no contact with other children, saw his nurse pretending to cry, and he automatically 'assumed a melancholy expression'.

classicmovies.org/articles/horrorhistory.htm

horror films are supposed to lets us 'encounter our secret fears, share them with other viewers, and eliminate the terror by meeting it head-on'.

the first horror movie was Le Manoir du Diable, aka The Manor of the Devil, made in 1896. it was 2 min long. monster movies flourished in the 20s and 30s, with Nosferatu, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy. In the 50s aliens were a big thing. in the 60s they got gorier and lo and behold the golden era of horror movies. everyone's seen them. Rosemary's Baby, Psycho, The Exorcist broke every record for a horror movie.Jaws, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Towering Inferno. With Halloween came the age of teen slasher movies and teens-threatened-by-indestructible-evil movies.Friday the 13th Nightmare on Elm street. In 90s came the horror/parady series Scream with its many references to classic horror plots and twists (one can predict these nowadays. The girl hides from the killer and cowers under