ABSTRACT
Central to all horror films is the unmotivated lethal impulse of some kind of monster and the total inability of the monsters to control it, as well as the almost total inability of society to control the monsters. Westerns on TV represent an interesting aspect of ritualization of one phase of American life and history. They are basically morality plays, where everything is clearly structured into good and bad people. The conflict between nationalism and internationalism, growing at the same time, again may have its basis in the dilemma between freedom and structure. The response to a morality play is something close to a religious experience, and the response to a Western embodies many of the qualities in a more remote and indirect way. The concepts as inferiority feelings, insecurity, and many others have become almost standard vocabulary of every modern individual in attempting to understand the true reasons, the true motivations of his contemporaries.
