[meetthecreeper]

Sure you can have horror without the violence, but I think there is the perception of violence seen or unseen. I dont think that horror films glorify violence, horror films usually have the bad guy or some form of evil doing all the violence against innocence, whereas action films have the supposed good guys mowing down everyone in a 30 block radius with an UZI. We are supposed to cheer this guy on and root for him but supposed to hope that the bad guy gets it in the end in a horror film. Personally I always root for the killer in a horror film but thats just me.

I think that the whole reason why we have violence in movies is becasue we are all curious about death and this is how we deal with it.

In an action film you can relate to the hero and he can do things in a film that you wish that you could do, like smoking a drug dealer and killing terrorists and shit.

Before modern times we had public executions and people brutally murdered each other with hand weapons. Imagine the battlefields where men fought each other with swords and axes and such. The brutality had to be unbelievable, now with modernization we are able to wipe each other out with the mere push of a button.

So I think that maybe as a society we have become less violent than our previous ancestors. We dont have colloseums anymore where we watch real people killing each other and being thrown to the lions for our entertainment, we just see it on TV.