It makes us jump.
So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of Horror that works through the genre Across a broad range of contemporary moving-Image media: film, television, video game.
It haunts our nightmares.
It makes us scream.
It makes us jump