The return of the repressed

Psychological repression is where one keeps its desires and wants and repels it into unconsciousness. It is seen that repression is found in many cases of mental illness.
Freud saw that anything that had been pushed to the back of the mind or into unconsciousness would once again reappear, weather that was while the person was doing something or if they were to just think about it. The return of the repressed seemed to have stimulated from Russia. People in Russia were remembering things from the war that had been pussed into their unconsciousness,which caused mental illness etc. All of this meant that for horror films and audiences, there was a hole new reason to be scared. Film writer could used characters who had suffered from repression. They would make their characters have fantasies about killing people but it would be pushed aside and then one day their muderious thoughts would be re-kindeled. this would have been very scary for the audience as the horror within the horror movie was infact a real illness.