Over the years, countless films have been made with the central theme of fear in the viewer. What is fear? According to Merriam-Webster, fear can be defined as being afraid of someone or something. When studying horror films, it is important to know the definition of fear and horror. “Horror dares to say that all is not well. Control has never been our responsibility… something else, rather than anything else, is at work… The function of horror is incredibly simple. It reminds us that we are not alone” (Yeats). Horror films abound and the idea of ​​being afraid keeps bringing people back to the cinema to repeat that unpleasant journey, but with a new plot and new characters. What makes these movies scary? Why are people attracted to horror films? Why are some older horror films remade and others not? When these films are remade, why are some successful and others not? In the 70s and 80s, the horror genre was booming in the film industry. Movies about ghosts, werewolves, demons, psychopaths and serial killers have inspired teenagers to flock to the cinema to spend their hard-earned money, only to be scared to death. Today, we find the same thing, even thirty years later. Why then? Why do people like to be afraid? Some people enjoy the stress of fear, but only because of the safe environment they are in. If we were in the real situation, they would act differently than in the closed spaces of a movie theater. As stated previously, it is the lack of control that scares us. That's why when you watch a horror movie in the cinema, it's the moments that come to mind that scare you the most, because you have no control over them. However, the moments that scare you when ...... middle of paper ...... around and constitute a guideline of morality. If you do something wrong, he'll get you. Hollywood knows that this fear of not being able to control something is a fear that lives in the hearts of most of us. Hollywood will continue to make horror films that prey on that fear and people will come back to them because they enjoy it. The bogeyman will never die. It simply transforms into a new situation. The bogeyman is a personified consequence of every action one takes. Works Cited 1) A Nightmare on Elm Street. Real. Wes Craven. New Line Cinema, 1984. DVD.2) Vidler, Anthony. Architectural strangeness: essays on the modern unusual. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1992. Print.3) A bogeyman with supernatural powers. By: McCabe, Nancy, Newsweek, 00289604, 10/17/2005, Vol. 146, number 164) Ingram, Shelley. “The strangeness and the abjection.” Powerpoint Presentation. 2014