Whether it’s Halloween or not, you’ll find that there are some movies that stay with you long after you see them for the first time. It is these iconic performances, stories, and creepy villains that haunt many people at night. Although movies are meant to be entertainment, they can be beneficial for a variety of reasons. In addition to scaring people, they can serve as educational tools, especially if you look beyond the initial violence and scary notions that are presented. In fact, you can learn several great life lessons from most cinema that is meant to be pretty creepy, to say the least. The following are just a few of the many things that you can apply to life in general.
Be alert at all times Perhaps the best advice you can have in life is to be attentive in every step of your day. Don’t get too relaxed, because it’s when you’re too relaxed that you miss some obvious things. Whether you’re driving and tired, or walking down the street and forget to look both ways, calamity can happen if you’re not paying attention. Many of the characters in popular horror franchises play their lives on the sidelines and tempt fate before meeting their end. Always be alert and aware of your surroundings, it is a good trait to acquire.
Call for help immediately – Have you ever wondered why the main characters don’t call the police? Many movies have played on this notion, having the main character run upstairs to escape harm, or rather to fall into a madman’s trap. Call for help immediately, don’t wait, and if you find the phone is not working, run away from the incident and seek help. Don’t stop at one place, keep looking until you are safe. This goes for any emergency, not just one from a nightmare world.
Keep calm in crisis- When the crisis hits, the best thing you can learn from horror movies is to do the opposite of what the characters do, stay calm. Don’t panic, it doesn’t help anyone to go into a frenzy. It’s when chaos reigns that you make a lot of mistakes, so don’t let fear or anxiety set in.
The above lessons are just some of the things you can learn from the many horror movies out there. They may sound rudimentary, but you’d be surprised how many are ignorant of the simple features of entertainment. On the other hand, they are just that, entertaining images.