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"Have you guys seen the movie that was assigned?" says Barbara. They both nod. "Although, I understand that they reflect issues of the 21st century, I still don't understand why anyone would watch it." "It's okay," replies John "the answer is that, unlike earnest, realistic films with Good Housekeeping Seals of approval, horror movies — with their sadism, unapologetic sensationalism, lack of nuance, and avid gratification of pathological impulses — offer sharper, more acute versions of our worst-case scenarios, they are like brilliant metaphors for what haunts us. That is why when we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare."

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      "Have you guys seen the movie that was assigned?" says Barbara. They both nod. "Although, I understand that they reflect issues of the 21st century, I still don't understand why anyone would watch it." "It's okay," replies John "the answer is that, unlike earnest, realistic films with Good Housekeeping Seals of approval, horror movies — with their sadism, unapologetic sensationalism, lack of nuance, and avid gratification of pathological impulses — offer sharper, more acute versions of our worst-case scenarios, they are like brilliant metaphors for what haunts us.
That is why when we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare."