The thing we are most afraid of . . . ourselves.

I saw the movie Dark Water last night. For as a scary movie goes it was alright. The plot was the same as other movies ment to scare. Objects appearing out of nowhere, long periods of silence and then a sudden jump, and intense periods not seeing much and not knowing what was going to happen. But what is it that really scares us. Those objects are only surprises, and not actual fear.

What scares us is the two major principles of fear. One the unknown, and the second of not being able to control our own fate. The unknown is what creeps into our minds as a slow moving creature coming to capture us in the dark, or the noises of people or beast around us as we are in a dark alley. Knowing what is going to happen eliminates the unknown, and this is why we never know what is happening in scary movies until the end. If the unknown was made know the movie would lose its first control of fear upon us. The second factor of fear is not being in control. Not being able to make our own decisions and control them. Through these two methods Hollywood feeds upon our own emotions and fears. We may say we'll never see another scary movie again, but it's things that happen on the inside of us that cause us to return.