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The frightened girl is running for her life and is too tired to run much further. But then she sees a little door in the wall and quickly runs through it into a garden . The killers run past , not noticing the gate . "I've escaped," she thinks and throws herself down on the soft green grass to rest . "I'm safe at last." But then suddenly a bloody hand reaches up out of the ground , grabs her leg , and starts pulling her down , down , down . . . . The girl in the film screams . You and all your friends scream too , and then you start laughing . After it's over you all agree that it was a great film and that you really enjoyed it . It frightened you and you loved it .

People who work in the film-making [1] have known for a long time that people will pay money to feel afraid . In fact , some of the most successful films in the [2] of the cinema have been stories about dead people who return to life , or some other [3] thing like people who must drink blood in order to live , or people who are part [4] and part animal . The story of Frankenstein , the doctor who made a new person by taking a [5] from one dead body , a head from another , and the rest from yet another body , has been filmed again and again . These days a new version of that old story is making lots of money .

Isn't it strange that people enjoy [6] films? Why do normal , healthy , [7] people like you and me enjoy feeling afraid? Psychologists say that it isn't really so strange . One reason why you enjoy seeing frightening things in films is that it makes your own real life seem happy and safe . Another reason is that people often feel good and really alive when they experience powerful feelings . And clearly , it is better to get strong feelings from a film [8] having real experiences of danger , pain , fear and death! A third reason is that these films give you the chance to feel like a [9] . Not many of us have the chance to rescue a drowning child , or pull an old woman out of a fire , or kill a horrible man-eating monster! [10] , when you watch the kind of film we are talking about , you can imagine that you are doing wonderful things to save people in danger , and this makes you feel really good .

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