The implicit, and often explicit, intention of horror movies
is to scare people. The fright engendered by horror movies can have residual
psychological effects for years. Two studies, "Tales from the Screen:
Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media" and another, funded by the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), both concluded that exposure horror
movies may have long-lasting adverse effects on children.
-Anxiety
The NIMH study reveals direct evidence that in children 5
and younger, especially toddlers, scary movies can produce acute cases of
anxiety. The symptoms of this anxiety include sleeping disorders,
aggressiveness and self-endangerment.
-Avoidance
Both studies indicated that children exposed to horror films
avoided real life situations shown in a fictional manner on screen. The
subjects exhibited dread of facing those situations. Some children not only
avoided real life situations, but also come to avoid seeing other movies or TV
shows dealing with the same situations that instilled the original fear.
-Obsession
A common effect among older children and even tweens and
pre-teens, upon viewing horror movies is to obsessively talk about the stimulus
that produces the fear. The subject of the obsessive talk may be expressed in
either a morbid fascination or a a need to alienate themselves from what they
have seen through discourse.
-Nightmares
Probably the most common effect that horror movies have on
children is the production of nightmares. Many children as well as adults can
be expected to have a nightmare after seeing a horror film, especially one that
may be troublesome emotional or features particularly repulsive and upsetting
gore.
-Gore
The stimuli found to produce an adverse effect in children
most often in horror films was the representation of blood or physical injury.
Almost two-third of respondents report being affected emotionally more by the
presence of blood and injury over stimuli such as disturbing images, environmental
disasters, scary animals, monsters and aliens.
-Most Common Symptoms
-Many symptoms are associated with a reaction to viewing
horror films. Among the most common symptoms include crying or screaming,
trembling or shaking, upset stomach, clinginess, paralysis, sweating, fever,
chills and loss of appetite.
-Encourage people to believe that there is in addition to
the jinn and human beings, the derivatives such as pocong demons, ghosts, and
kuntilanak. Though God in the scriptures affirm the Qur'an that Allah did not
create the jinn and humans apart. He said
"And I only
created jinn and man to serve me."
Adh Dzaariyaat: 56
-Cause believing in addition to shirk with Allah. And
resolve problems unseen by human intermediaries who has supernatural abilities.
- Scare yourself with visions of the devil (though humans
are noble and respected by the jinn). And more frightening than the
colonization of new demons and punishment of the grave of their Creator.
-Mystery sinetrons deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden
worst fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it
is about the supernatural, if some films contain a plot about morbidity, serial
killers, a disease/virus outbreak and surrealism
-elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by
playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that
startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus they
may overlap with the fantasy and supernatural genre.
-Sleeplessness
An immediate psychological effect of scary movies on the
minds of people is lack of sleep. The person may find an inability to sleep
through the night for few days, even months after watching the movie. He/she
may need to use a nightlight while sleeping. The thoughts of the horrifying
characters appeared in the horror movie and the situations may haunt him/her,
leading to sleepless nights. This condition last for a week to even a year.
-Fear
The hangover of horror movie is largely characterized by a
fear. The person may become afraid of the dark, or cling to the companion while
sleeping. He/she may cry, scream, tremble, shake or even nauseate, if the
horror film has really scared him/her. Fear of losing control, fear of dying
are also associated with the horror movies.
-Phobia
As a result of watching the situations portrayed in the
horror movie, the person may develop a phobia towards animals such as mammals,
insects, reptiles, fire, flood, water, blood/injection/injury or height and
enclosed spaces. He/she may get disturbed by loud noises or horrible faces.
-According to Glenn Sparks, a professor of communication at
Purdue University, the physical reactions to horrifying images include sweaty
palms, tense muscles, a drop of several degrees in skin temperature, a spike in
blood pressure and an increase in heart rate of up to 15 beats per minute.
Those are some pretty incredible changes considering you're simply sitting
still viewing images. But what about possible mental effects? The area in our
brain that plays a large part in regulating emotions can be permanently
imprinted by fear.
-In fact, Joanne Cantor, PhD, director of the Center for
Communication Research at University of Wisconsin, believes that allowing
children under the age of 14 to watch scary movies may cause them to have a
lifelong irrational fear. Children are impressionable and have a much harder
time differentiating between real and imagined threats. Most phobias adults
have are believed to be direct results of a traumatizing experience (including
a scary movie) had as a child
• Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day
watching TV are more likely to be overweight. TV viewing is a sedentary
activity, and has been proven to be a significant factor in childhood obesity
.It is probably replacing activities in your child's life that you would rather
have them do like playing with their friends.
• Unsupervised television watching in children can lead to
an early exposure to a wide variety of things. Kids see favorite characters
smoking, drinking, and involved in other risky behaviors in movies they watch
on TV. That may Increase aggressive behavior.
• Kids who spend more time watching TV spend less time
interacting with family members. The more time that children spent viewing
television without parents and siblings present, the less time they spent
interacting with parents or siblings, respectively.
• Studies in psychology have shown that watching intense
emotions on television leaves a long-lasting impact on one's mind. Horror
scenes that are featured on television have a negative impact on the minds of
kids watching them. Scary movies can produce acute cases of anxiety. It is
characterized as long-term effects on children, which may even linger into
their adulthood .The symptoms of this anxiety, include sleeping disorders and
aggressiveness. As a result of watching the situations portrayed in the horror
movie, the person may develop a phobia towards things such as animals, fire,
flood, water, blood, height and enclosed spaces.
• Television can affect learning and school performance
.Excessive TV viewing can contribute to poor grades and can reduce children's
learning abilities and academic achievement.
• Advertising target kids, attractively
presented advertisements and film stories deeply impact young minds, thus
influencing the thoughts and behavior of children. Television can also
contribute to childhood obesity by aggressively marketing junk food to young
audiences
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