The category of films about not very mentally healthy people in many moviegoers causes a perplexed shrug. You can often hear comments in the spirit: "These are your horrors about maniacs that sick people remove for the same sick audience," and fans of the genre readily parry these attacks with the phrase: "Do not like it - do not look."
If you look, the plot of films of this nature rarely really differs in depth, and the main emphasis is on the entertainment and "juiciness" of what is happening. For example, I would like to watch the famous slasher film “House of 1000 Corpses” simply because it is interesting what kind of torment the members of an unhealthy family can come up with for their victims, and not because they are interested in a plot that is practically absent here. Basically, horrors about maniacs, murderers, escaped madmen (“House of Fear”) and cruel neighbors (“Girl opposite”) tell simple stories, seasoned with average acting and an abundance of atmospheric scenery.
Evil triumphs over good, or Bird Sorry Syndrome
Often the director plays on a natural sense of justice, making innocent and seemingly good people suffer for a long time from a combination of circumstances. In this way, the film "Lake of Paradise" simply makes you glow with anger because of the ending in which evil goes unpunished. Such a movie usually leaves a rather unpleasant aftertaste, and you won’t want to review it a second time.
I had about the same impression after watching the movie “Fear”, where the malicious unbridled uncle does not get what he deserves. If Disney films are refused to be watched because of the cloyingness and too much distance from the realities of life, then the horrors about maniacs and serial killers are apprehension precisely because of excessive cruelty and a sense of injustice. In this genre, evil almost always triumphs, and the happy end is perceived by the audience almost as an insult. At the same time, there is an opinion that, no matter how varied the genre of “horrors” may be, thrillers about maniacs who take revenge on the universe without any reason are looked mostly by dissatisfied with life, aggressive people. However, for them it’s just an emotional outlet and a dose of adrenaline, and the nervous boss presses the human psyche more than a separate
genre of cinema.So different but equally dangerous
However, not all the horrors about maniacs shredding everything alive right and left suffer from superficiality and lack of idea or morality. Beloved by many, the multiseries franchise “Saw” is distinguished by the thoughtfulness and non-linearity of the plot, and the main character boasts a completely justifiable motivation. Here one cannot even say with certainty where good is and where is evil, and inventive scenes of violence almost do not distract from philosophical reasoning. This is not the case, for example, about the film “Beloved”, where the main motive for the actions of an abnormal family is in children's complexes and an increased level of aggressiveness. In general, the horrors about maniacs and cruel killers are very diverse, so each viewer can choose a picture to his taste, armed with the motto "this is just a movie."