Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies
In Stephen Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies" he claims that we are all mentally ill. According to King, people’s quirks are proof of this. The antidote to our mental illness, king says, is that we watch horror movies to "re-establish our feelings of essential normality". King also says that we watch them to satisfy the bad in us. We all do crazy things in our lives. Once in awhile we all want to thrash out on someone, to prove a point, or just to hurt them for the sake of hurting them. We do not do this instead we watch horror movies, ride roller coasters and let our frustrations out through our imagination, rather than physical action.
In King’s “...horror movies” he explains that “if we are all insane” then in reality, this is what makes us normal. We can tell that one is what we call abnormal or crazy by the degree …show more content…
He is right, everyone in the world is mentally ill in one way or another. No one is perfect; as King points out we all do odd things. Some people tend to talk to themselves, have to have everything just right everyday or they go crazy, and just do odd things from day to day without giving it a second thought. We do things that are life threatening just to say that we could do it and do things that make us scared just to say that we were able to. We watch movies that freak us out, do crazy stunts, and do things that could end with us giving our lives just for the thrill of it. No one is perfectly normal or perfect in any sense we all do something crazy at some point of our lives, some do such every day. Everyone does it and everyone is insane to a point that it is considered normal, and is almost expected of people. We do not call ourselves insane or think of ourselves as insane because everyone has some insanity in their lives so we just think of it as the way of life. Not thinking of how insane we are by doing it. To a point everyone is mentally ill, there is a little insanity in all of
In King’s “...horror movies” he explains that “if we are all insane” then in reality, this is what makes us normal. We can tell that one is what we call abnormal or crazy by the degree …show more content…
He is right, everyone in the world is mentally ill in one way or another. No one is perfect; as King points out we all do odd things. Some people tend to talk to themselves, have to have everything just right everyday or they go crazy, and just do odd things from day to day without giving it a second thought. We do things that are life threatening just to say that we could do it and do things that make us scared just to say that we were able to. We watch movies that freak us out, do crazy stunts, and do things that could end with us giving our lives just for the thrill of it. No one is perfectly normal or perfect in any sense we all do something crazy at some point of our lives, some do such every day. Everyone does it and everyone is insane to a point that it is considered normal, and is almost expected of people. We do not call ourselves insane or think of ourselves as insane because everyone has some insanity in their lives so we just think of it as the way of life. Not thinking of how insane we are by doing it. To a point everyone is mentally ill, there is a little insanity in all of