Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fear Factors: the themes of horror.
- Loss of control
- Otherness/difference
- The unknown
- Body trauma & violation
- Barbarity thretening civilisation
- Being prey, being hunted
- Invasion of our safe spaces
- Primal fears
- A deep-seated fundamental fear- death, the uncertain afterlife, the dark, isolation.
- Something has invaded the sanctity of your home.
- What if we're not the top of the food chain after all? The survival instinct is crucial to all horrors.
- The idea of wilderness,nature and unreasoning barbarism overcoming our rules and systems is distributing.
- We all share a deep-seated dread of irreparable damage to the body.
- A lot of our fear comes from the restricted knowledge, knowledge is power and safety
- We fear things that lack humanity, our values, our morals of human form.
- We dread losing control of the situation, experiencing the nightmare of total powerlessness.