Abstract

Baruch Spinoza's thought has been the most fruitful of modernity in the analysis of emotions and human passions. In all, fear is one of the key. From here, we propose to remove the conditions of legitimacy to analyze two films which, by their codes textual and narrative, with laxity could be included within the horror genre or horror. With this, we hope to argue that the work of art in general and cinema in particular can operate as a space for reflection according to Spinoza commitment: the liberation of the individual through knowledge.