Cinephobia

Cinephobia is the fear of watching movies. The term is the combining form of cine, meaning "movie", and phobia. This phobia is most commonly caused by getting really scared or even shocked by a movie during the childhood. Sufferers of cinephobia would typically not watch movies, while few may watch very calm movies without any bad events depicted. Cinephobia can be treated by having psychologists calmly telling patients that every event depicted in the movies are not real.

Cinematophobia or cinemaphobia (made of cinema, meaning "movie theater", and phobia) is the fear of going to a movie theater. People who fear movies would not go there. Sufferers of cinematophobia may not just fear watching the movie there, but also fear sitting in the dark (achluophobia).