Psychorama

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Psychorama (or "The Precon Process") is the act of communicating subliminal information through film—flashing images on the screen so quickly that they cannot be perceived by the conscious mind, but nonetheless leaving an unconscious imprint on the viewer. A film called My World Dies Screaming (later retitled Terror in the Haunted House) marked Hollywood's first attempt to make use of this technique. At different points in this experimental film, a skull is flashed to inspire terror, a crawling snake to inspire hate, two fluttering hearts to generate love, and the huge letters spelling the word "blood" to create fear. Incidentally, psychorama leaves most audiences with headaches and confused recollections about the action onscreen ^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

• Medved, Michael, and Harry Medved. The Golden Turkey Awards. 1980, Putnam. ISBN 0-399-50463-X.

[edit] External links

• My World Dies Screaming at the Internet Movie Database