The terror that you feel from reading “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is different than the terror being felt when watching a terrifying movie as reading a story requires you to use your imagination making it less scary, but watching a movie you can physically see what’s going on and the jump scares that are in the film makes the movie more terrifying than reading a scary book. Reading the book doesn’t give you the intensity that the movie gives. Both have their ways into making it terrifying but I feel like the movies are more scarier than reading a book because you can hear and see everything that is actually is happening which is scarier than imagining it. You can imagine anything scary and compare that to physically watching it on a movie, it’s more scarier in the film because you see all the chaos and goriness that’s there.
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Hi John,
You make a good point about the different experiences of fear in reading versus watching a scary movie. Visualizing movies and jump scares can heighten the terror compared to imagining scenes from a book. Both mediums have their ways of evoking fear, I believe stories offer a captivating experience too as they unfold in the reader’s mind, making it impossible to escape.