Cineleisure: Emily Rose (Fear/horror/terror)
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What's the difference between Fear, Horror and terror?
FEAR is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or not. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike to some conditions/objects, such as: fear of darkness, fear of ghosts, etc. It is one of the basic emotions.
Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.
Fear inside a person has different degrees and varies from one person to another (see also phobia). If not properly handled, fear can lead to social problems. People who experience intense fear have been known to commit irrational and/or dangerous acts.
Some philosophers have considered fear to be a useless emotion with uniformly bad consequences; other thinkers note the usefulness of fear as a warning of bad situations.
HORROR is the feeling of dread and anticipation that usually occurs before something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced. It is also the feeling one gets after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a hideous revelation. (Terror is usually described as the feeling that follows after the experience has occurred.) Horror has also been defined as a combination of terror and repulsion.
Compare: the experience of waiting for a scary monster to jump out of the closet (horror) with the experience of actually seeing the scary monster after it has jumped out (terror).
Of course, horror can still be felt after the monster(s) etc. is revealed. A good example is found in the film Rosemary's Baby. The audience isn't just horrified with expectation of what's going to be revealed at the end of the movie; they are equally (if not more) horrified at the moment of revelation itself and all that it implies for the future.
Horror is also a genre of film and fiction that relies on scaring the audience as its main attraction.
TERROR refers to a pronounced state of fear, where someone becomes overwhelmed with a sense of immediate danger. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, horror, panic, trepidation. Slang cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See fear/courage
1. Fear is an emotion - See emotion: http://atll.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_atll_archive.html
2. Degrees of Fear: Distrust --> Paranoia --> Terror
3. Horror preceeds Fear, which can then lead to distrust, paranoia and even terror.
4. Fear occurs because we anticipate outcomes and dread undesirable outcomes.
5. We all desire certain outcomes, goal attainment, whether admittedly/denial or conscious/unconscious.
6. We act to
....A). chase the desired outcomes, or
....B). to prevent/ avoid the risks and dangers of unwanted outcomes (fear)
A). Requires Courage
B). Succombing to fear leads to distrust, paronoia and even terror.
--> What do you fear most? How do you choose to deal with the horror of facing your fears?
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