The increased use of special effects in horror movies has led to many of its characters to appear more realistic and immersive to viewers. This has led to filmmakers to use some aspects of special effects to help enhance the storytelling of horror movies to make it more immersive to viewers and keep them interested and intrigued throughout the entire movie. Consequently, this has prompted many viewers to become emotionally invested in horror movies which can have negative psychological issues on them if they are not mature enough. And if the viewers are not sophisticated enough, it can contribute to them acting more aggressive or angrily when being confronted with emotional situations in their personal and social life. Although special effects …show more content…
Special effects have helped to draw in a broader audience to horror movies due to the incredible realism and improved storytelling that filmmakers have been able to include. According to an article published by Mark Griffiths, Dr. Deidre Johnson conducted a sample of 220 American adolescents, where the four primary reasons why people were motivated to watch horror movies were gore watching, thrill watching, independent watching, and problem watching and that “each of these four viewing motivations are found to be related to viewers’ cognitive and affective responses to horror movies.” With there being a variety of ways for people to enjoy horror movies, special effects have allowed for each of these four viewing motivations to be enhanced with better realism, and improved storytelling to keep all audiences interested and intrigued. According to an article published by Jody Keisner, a professor at the University of Nebraska, said that “Creators of horror movies rely on quintessential fact, and because of it, special effects have become the horror movie’s means to survival and popularity”(413). The inclusion of special effects has allowed for horror movies to appeal to a vaster audience and has allowed for filmmakers to test the boundaries of special effects with the use of more blood and gore. However, it has also led to adverse psychological issues on some