Robert Viagas

About why people go to see horror movies, something that they, you know, the things that are horror and horror movies you would never want to happen in your own life or to even be present when that happens.

But people consider it entertainment.

Why?

This was King's theory that people go to measure themselves against what they see.

They say, well, this is going to be a really scary Stephen King movie.

Right.

I wonder if I could take it.

I wonder if I'm strong enough to take it.

And they go and they see the movie and like it'll be a horrible murder scene.

And you go, oh, that was awful.

That was awful.

But I but I could live through it.

I could I could survive it.

Well, you know, audiences had to be trained.

Audiences had to learn how to be audiences.

Back in the days of the Greeks, they loved poetry and they would have poets who would speak poetry and they would, most of their poetry was about their gods and about their religion.

And they became so popular, they would have one or two or sometimes three or sometimes a whole group of people.

They would call it, they called it a chorus and they would all say,

the poetry at the same time.

And audiences loved this.