TM
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Skills & Portfolio
  • Connect

Fear, Horror Films, and the Creativity of Society

3/6/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
If we can catch a glimpse of our creativity by understanding our horrors, what does this say about horror films and our society today? How has this developed over time?

I believe that the enemy of creativity isn’t boredom, but fear. I think our fears are very closely intertwined with our creativity and oddly enough, I think creativity feeds off of our fear. It’s like creativity’s fuel. As I was thinking about this, I began to also wonder about horror films and how they might reflect society’s most popular concept of fear.

Back when horror films started coming out, they were mainly scary because of the monsters in the films. (Think of Frankenstein or Godzilla.) These movies came out in the same era as WW2 where socialism was haunting over the world. Maybe there’s a connection?

Thinking about horror films today - they’re mostly psychological. Most of the scary aspect isn’t based around a “monster” per se, but there’s an eerie aspect to the tone of the film. Sure, there’s a “bad guy”, but that’s not what makes the movie scary. It’s the psychology behind it.

The amount of people that suffer from depression and anxiety is increasing over time in this day and age. Is it a coincidence?

How does this connect with creativity?

Well, if you think about how quickly our world is changing, it’s pretty amazing. I mean, we have people going to Mars pretty soon. We have so much innovation occurring, and sometimes I think we regard it as normal and forget to stop and think about it.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

      Subscribe to my newsletter!

    Subscribe

    Categories

    All
    Argumentation
    Bass
    Books
    Career
    Christianity
    Code
    CORE
    Creativity
    CSS
    Debate
    Dream Interpretation
    Economics
    Education
    HTML
    Libertarianism
    Life
    Marketing
    MBTI
    Metal
    Monthly Recaps
    Motivation
    Music
    My Adventures
    My Goals
    Noteworthy Tunes
    Other
    Philosophy
    Photography
    Post Punk
    Praxis
    Productivity
    Psychology
    Reading Challenge
    Taking Action
    What I'm Learning
    What I'm Listening To
    Writing

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Skills & Portfolio
  • Connect