Why Do We Keep Watching??

Why do we keep on watching horror films if it makes us scared, hide our eyes, jump, and scream? Is it because psychologically as human beings we believe that there is something out there besides ourselves? Or is it because each one of us have had some kind of personal experience that is unexplained and that brings out our inner most fears? Does horror films help us take these inner most fears and put them in a setting that we can manage because they are in a film and not directly affecting us? The wanting and the intrigue of viewing these films tap into our own phyche. This is the curse of our horror and intrigues of it. Lovecraft says it well when he says, “Children will always be afraid of the dark and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse."
These films to me are so intriguing and so wanting for our lives because many of them have religious backgrounds. I believe that we were made by God. So in that belief we live in a daily struggle between good and evil. There is a holy war that is ever going on between God and the Devil that is going on even if we can not physically see it. In that thinking I believe that many horror films bring out this thinking. There is a battle between good and evil that is visual for us and our minds feel more comfortable and capable when we are able to visually see something. In movies like The Exorcist and The Omen there is a religious battle going on that can be visually seen. Movies like that of Frankenstein to me have underlying meanings towards religion in that the monster was created by a man trying to be like God in his doing and the monster being abandoned and treated as wicked by the world like that of the Devil. These movies to us show how everyone of us are made in God's likeness and that their is something in ourselves that is struggling with good and evil everyday that we are not aware of. Our lives are an ever going onus of religious warfare if we are conscious or not of it. These movies help us to bring out our inner most feelings of it consciously through a controlled environment.