By Morgan Hart
October is a time for the late night horror flick marathons, but does anyone even know what horror movies do to people after that TV shuts off?
Unlike the horror movies from a few years ago, which were based mostly on suspense, horror movies today, like Saw and Scream, revolve around violence and gore to scare the audience. A Common Sense Media report shows that this may actually be desensitizing teens today. Teens realize that the screen is fiction, so they become used to it.
In 2004, Michael Hernandez, a fourteen-year-old boy, admitted to stabbing a classmate to death, and it was later found out that he used methods he had seen in American Psycho and Silence of the Lambs to try and become a serial killer himself . The 21st century generation has to learn that even though the violence and crimes in movies are made up or dramatized, there are real things that happen in this world that should make them shudder.
Will death still be as shocking in the future? Or will people shrug it off, saying they saw that in a movie once? These are some things to consider the next time someone presses play.
