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They scare us, but we like them. Even though the horror movies They generate feelings of anguish in us, fear and even stress, are films that many of us love and enjoy watching, especially when it is evening knowing that, in the face of darkness, we tend to experience more fear. But have you ever wondered why you should watch this type of cinema in the last hours of the day? causes us greater fear. Science has an explanation for this and here we are going to share it with you.
Although it seems that seeing a horror movie At night or during the day it does not make any difference, the reality is that the time of day when we do this activity does influence the way we experience panic and anguish. And if we do it when the sky has darkened, the emotions we feel are much more intense.
When we see a film of this genre the fear becomes present and with this emotion our body manifests a series of reactions that, on many occasions, tend to come one after another or even at the same time: our pupils dilate, sometimes we sweat and our skin crawls, our frequency cardiac and respiratory conditions accelerate, among others.
But if all these reactions happen to us even when we are watching a horror movie during the day, doWhat difference does it make when we see it at night?? It has to do with a physiological response that the body has when daylight has ended, giving way to darkness.
Why are we more afraid of watching horror movies at night?
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) published a couple of days ago information about the Why we are more afraid of watching horror movies at nightsomething that is related to the biological rhythm that our body has at this time of day.
According to the highest house of studies, feel more afraid at night while we are watching a horror tape It is because when we are in the dark due to the absence of sunlight, our biological rhythms, such as heart and respiratory rhythms, tend to slow down. Being more relaxed, the moment we expose ourselves to one or more intense stimuli, such as a scary scene, causes us to conceive that stimulus as something much more shocking than it could be. That is why our reaction and the way we live the fear that generates us occurs in a more intense and profound way.
And even though we know that these are fictional situations and characters, see horror movies at night it makes our connection to what we are seeing stronger and our fear deeper.
Research conducted by Chongqing Southeast University in China has shown that there is an increase in physiological signs of fear when we are exposed to frightening stimuli at night.
Mexico, the country that watches the most horror films in the world
If you thought that the Chinese or Koreans were the biggest fans of horror cinema, it turns out that we Mexicans are above them in this. A study by Stephen Follows on the consumption of film genres globally revealed that Mexico is the number one country when it comes to watching horror films. This is followed by South Korea, Russia and the United States.
Therefore, it does not surprise us that, annually, in our country, between 70 and 75 horror films are released, which are distributed over 52 weeks of screening, according to the director of Grupo Mórbido, Pablo Guisa.
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