"As potential victims, we fear serial killers, yet we also seek to identify with their power" (Edelstein, 2006). This is one perspective as to why movies like "Saw" are so popular. Viewers rarely get to deal with sadism or masochism on a daily basis nor do viewers ever get insight into criminal minds. The beauty of slasher films is that viewers get to put themselves in the position of the torturer and the tortured.
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