Chapter 7

"The aim is to stimulate an emotional response not for the sake of the emotion, but for the aftermath of emotion: the feeling of calm that follows it."  (Janaro & Altshuler 2017)

They later state that the calm is called "catharsis", I feel like catharsis is a very important aspect in horror movies in the current day, after one experiences a frightening scene in a horror film they often times skip to a calm scene after the frightening incident or a calm scene in another setting that allows the viewer to enjoy the rush they achieved from the scene as well as allows them to recover their heart rate to a resting heart rate. A viewer is also given time to mentally and emotionally recover. The aspect is to temporarily bring the viewer out of the feel of the film and into reality is as I would describe catharsis. 

"They walked up and down the real stairs, opened a door and exited through it, presumably to go outside. The actor was only going backstage, but this was the era of verisimilitude, the convention of making everything look and sound like the real world."

This is the premise of non-fictional movies and of course theater productions. They bring a special appeal to audiences that fictional movies and theater productions can not, for one theater production is limited to the realism of making fictional productions feel really real as one can not simply make supernatural incidences occur in real life, this is why they are supernatural. The attempt to do such in a theater setting will usually appear quite unreal. Although this can be done in movies with CGI and a multitude of other resources, the audience clearly has their minds set on a distant or non-existent world giving them a feeling of distance. This is unlike a play of verisimilitudal standards that brings the setting of the play much closer to home allowing people to relate to daily life and feel more of a familiar setting and immerse themselves into these similar environment that they are seeing.