ABSTRACT
In addition, a number of questions related to the experience of sound, music and particularly color had to remain open. Last, since this study was not primarily intended as an investigation into genres but sought to answer the aesthetic paradox of pleasurable fear, it had to ignore other emotional or somatic pleasures often gained from horror movies and thrillers. In order to be truthful to the genres that fi gured so prominently in the preceding pages one would have to take into account disgust and-particularly in regard to the horror fi lm-laughter and erotic titillation.
