Why Psychological Horrors Move You Closer To Enlightenment

You can either love or hate the horror genre, depending on your “need for affect”. In the first case you tend to have extreme attitudes across a variety of issues, choose to view emotional movies or become involved in emotion-inducing events. In other words, you accept negative emotions as a part of life. In the second case you try to avoid these emotions if possible. That group of people will never develop into their best selves, because they refuse to see their shadow side and refuse to walk through the mud of their minds to get to the true meaning of their lives.

If you belong to the emotion seekers, you are in the right place! I will take a look at the horror genre, represented by a few stories from the movie industry, and analyze their inner workings.

I will be looking at the best psychological horrors, thus no cheap jump scare movies. no “monster in the woods” or eerie atmosphere types that move you nowhere in life; but at the best horrors made exactly for the kind of person who WANTS to explore the deepest darkness of humanity and in themselves, because as the saying goes “No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach all the way down to hell”.

The Witch

The Witch is about the monster inside of each one of us and not really about witches. It’s about…