Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Analysis
Everyone Has a Little Manson Inside
What is horror? Stephen King (a well-known author) a master of horror, he writes an interesting story in Why We Crave Horror Movies, which gives reasons why people crave, need, and want horror their lives. In Two horrific twisted flicks Misery written by Stephen King himself directed by Rob Reiner and “The Doll: Amelia” a short suspenseful story of three in Trilogy of Terror directed by Dan Curtis, these insane and psychotic reasons come to life with many similarities in each of their plots.
The similarities between the series of events in both of these thrillers are almost to compelling and bone chilling not to watch. The opening scene to “The Doll” and Misery give a small tranquil scene of the main …show more content…
[Perhaps]…horror movies provide psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality, and even outright madness is extended so rarely (King 5th paragraph).”
For sane reasons as we put aside our civil and adult minded persona for understanding and turn on the imagination of seeing things from another perspective, which one might not so often experience, love the thrill of the ride. For example, the scene from which Amelia is just running, falling everywhere, getting stabbed all over her apartment, throws the Zuni doll into the oven and still gets possessed. Amelia fought for her life and never gave up. In Misery Paul Sheldon attempts to make several escapes during his time with Annie and one would hope that he would possibly do some hurtful things to Annie to get what she deserves. Annie breaking Paul’s ankles with a sledge hammer and burning Paul’s book could drive anyone to extreme measures of escaping from Annie. The idea that imagination has no boundaries here, anything can happen to those who someone might feel deserves to be punished in our eyes or mind. Another example of this idea expressed is in the final scene where Amelia is possibly possessed and is waiting on her mother with a crude, large, jagged-razor sharp teeth filled expression like your first
What is horror? Stephen King (a well-known author) a master of horror, he writes an interesting story in Why We Crave Horror Movies, which gives reasons why people crave, need, and want horror their lives. In Two horrific twisted flicks Misery written by Stephen King himself directed by Rob Reiner and “The Doll: Amelia” a short suspenseful story of three in Trilogy of Terror directed by Dan Curtis, these insane and psychotic reasons come to life with many similarities in each of their plots.
The similarities between the series of events in both of these thrillers are almost to compelling and bone chilling not to watch. The opening scene to “The Doll” and Misery give a small tranquil scene of the main …show more content…
[Perhaps]…horror movies provide psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality, and even outright madness is extended so rarely (King 5th paragraph).”
For sane reasons as we put aside our civil and adult minded persona for understanding and turn on the imagination of seeing things from another perspective, which one might not so often experience, love the thrill of the ride. For example, the scene from which Amelia is just running, falling everywhere, getting stabbed all over her apartment, throws the Zuni doll into the oven and still gets possessed. Amelia fought for her life and never gave up. In Misery Paul Sheldon attempts to make several escapes during his time with Annie and one would hope that he would possibly do some hurtful things to Annie to get what she deserves. Annie breaking Paul’s ankles with a sledge hammer and burning Paul’s book could drive anyone to extreme measures of escaping from Annie. The idea that imagination has no boundaries here, anything can happen to those who someone might feel deserves to be punished in our eyes or mind. Another example of this idea expressed is in the final scene where Amelia is possibly possessed and is waiting on her mother with a crude, large, jagged-razor sharp teeth filled expression like your first