Horror films
Horror films are films of special genre that aims frightening of the viewer and to arouse feeling of scare or expecting for something terrible. Horror films keep the viewer at constant tension and as so excite him so he can't move away from the screen. Horror films are usually watched in evening in order to multiply the tension, so you may say that horror films are the source of adrenalin and exiting which you may find right at your apartment and you don't have to travel somewhere far away to get this feeling by means of snowboarding, rock climbing, kiting or windsurfing or other extreme kinds of sport. You may buy your pop-corn sit comfort in you favorite arm-chair or sofa and enjoy your move without any risk to be physically hurt.
It's important to say physically as horror films may cause a great damage to your psychic. In fact any artificial or natural rouse of feeling of scare cause harm for your psychic in one or another way and in different intensity. Let's say, for example, that child that was playing ball outdoors saw a huge dog that suddenly starts barking at him and child wasn't expecting for this. Child will be frightened to death and fall into crying, sure in some period of time child may forget about it and stay calm about dogs but more likely that this event will result the life-long scare of dogs and the feeling of insecure will appear every time he see a dog. His soul is bruised and bemauled. Sure this example may not be considered as causing of extremely serious damage for one's soul and psychic but on the other hand horror films are not dogs, so those may cause mach greater harm.
In conditions of modern development of scientific-technical progress and cinema technologies movie-maker every day get more and more opportunities and abilities of creating the scariest horror films one can ever imagine. The special effects of cinema may create creature so terrible that one will be greatly stricken by its single appearance, living out of topic the whole plot of the picture. The tension created by the plot and music of the film multiplied to special effects are rather dangerous weapon against humans' psychic, so, one should be careful about pictures of this genre in order to avoid psychic problems. Great number of cases are known of children's lose their sleep under impression of horror films, or when they see nightmares every night under the same impression of horror films. First it's insomnia and nightmares but with the laps of time it may turn into various phobias and paranoia like nyctophobia, monophobia, claustrophilia or neofobia. Nyctophobia is ysyaly based on scare that the terrible creature or maniac recently seen at some movie will appear from the darkness and hurt one. Monophobia is based on scare that once person stay along something terrible will happen to him as in most horror films characters are killed as they are alone. Neophobia is based on scare of something new and if so – unknown. Something unknown will occur and may bring terrible changes like at horror movie.