Skrekkrekord at the cinema – NRK

Sexually transmitted demons, monsters who climbs out of the tv screens and, not least, the most appropriate eksemplelet: clowns. Actions and instruments of horror movies may seem comical when you read it now. But we leave us still scare.

Overview of the trade association of Film and Cinema shows that we have never before had more opportunities to be scared in the cinema.

– There are probably a number of new distributors who have a sense of skrekksjangeren, and who will thus have put the films up on the cinema, ” says Guttorm Petterson, director of Film and Cinema.

horror movies and the number of visits so far in the 2016

• The Conjuring 2 (155.923 visit)
• Deathgasm (851 visits)
• The Boy (37.870 visit)
• House (13.876 visit)
• The Green Inferno (3.365 visit)
• The Neon Demon (3.678 visit)
• Martyrs (1.040 visit)
• Lights Out (71.803 visit)
• Morgan (7.104 visit)
• Don’t Breathe (32.347 visit)
• The Girl With All The Gifts (5.299 visit)

Why do we like to be frightened?

SKREKKFORSKER: Christer Bakke Andresen, filmviter at NTNU, has done research on the Norwegian grøssere.

Photo: NRK

Filmviter Christer Bakke Andresen at NTNU has researched why we fenges of it to be scared.

scholars disagree about why we are drawn towards what feels like a negative experience. But we find it enough exciting to see someone overcome a threat, and to see others overcome their own fear, ” he says.

Andresen think the genre plays on overlevelsesinstinktet in the us.

– People have learned how to avoid becoming a prey. Some believe that horror movies therefore, creates a physical reaction in those who see such films, ” he says.

Filmviteren think that the more horror we see, the better we like to be frightened.

– We have a different expertise and more used to seeing the genre now compared with previously. We understand simply horror movies better and see what comes.

social

KINOENTUSIAST: Guttorm Petterson is the director of the trade association of Film and Cinema.

Photo: Hannah Huglen Revheim

Guttorm Petterson draws in addition, the social factor around it to be scared together.

– We fenges of the sudden the effects and the feeling that the character is trapped and has no way out. And so we like to be scared in the crowd at the cinema. It is enough to any other than to be scared alone, ” he says.

Petterson draws comparisons to the eventyrtradisjonen:

– There are a lot of ugly in Norwegian folkeventyr also. This has probably been an expression in different kulturutrykk at all times, he considers.

the Chief executive of the centre for gender research, Ingvil Førland Hellstrand is not amazed that now there is a wave of horror movies.

– It is something with monstere that represent the boundaries between the known and the unknown. Some monstere is the physically recognizable, but one’s own fear may also be monstere, ” she says. And that many will watch horror movies, she is not amazed.

It overrrasker me not at all. Our time is a destablisert time. Technological developments whispers out the boundaries between body and technology, she says. And new social media breaks down the boundaries between private and public.