MOVIES - Oct. 30, 1987

Whether you savor the anticipation and suspense of “Psycho” or the murder and mayhem of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” horror films can be good for you, a University of Illinois cinema expert says, because there are few genres of film that play with our emotions as effectively as horror films. “These movies are a way of seeing our fears dealt with in a manageable way,” associate film professor Richard Leskosky said. “It has a satisfying effect in the sense we have confronted our worst fears and coped with them. We have seen these horrors and we come out OK.”