Why We Love Horror Movies

Why is Terrifier 3 making so much money at the box office compared to its initial budget? Why do we love to be scared?

First of all we’re talking about what may well be the goriest, bloodiest, and most perverse explorations into the mind of a pure evil, but enough about Chad Kroeger from Nickelback. Art the Clown pushes the envelope of what are the accepted limits to violence and atrocities in a film. He slices faces off, he saws women in half, he rips off limbs and tortures victims to the point of exhaustion, and that’s the tame part. So what does this do for us?