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Have you guys seen the movie that was assigned?” asks Barbara. Mike and John both nod. She continues “Although I understand that they reflect issues of the 21st century, I still don’t understand why anyone would watch them.” “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, and, obviously haunted the people in the 21st century. 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?” asks Barbara. Mike and John both nod. She continues “Although I understand that they reflect issues of the 21st century, I still don’t understand why anyone would watch them.” 

“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, and, obviously haunted the people in the 21st century. 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.”