Summary Of Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies

The main point of the story seems self-explanatory, this essay explains why we crave horror movies. The first reason that Stephen King gives is that we are all mentally ill in some way or another. He also goes into other reasons such as that we want to be able show other people that we are not afraid to do so, King also states that we crave horror movies to attempt to capture the audiences response. He then brings up the point that we also crave horror movies because we want to reassure ourselves that our feelings are no different than the other people who also crave to watch horror movies. It gives a sense that other people have the same interests as you. King also talks about how we go to horror movies to have fun and to be with other people
who share similar concepts like us. King ends this story by telling us we enjoy horror movies because it appeals to the worst in us.

I connect to this story because I, personally, enjoy horror films, particularly the style of Stephen King. I agree with the point that he made, that it makes us feel we are no different from others. I believe without horror movies life would be dull and not interesting. While yet some horror movies aren’t actually scary they always give some sort of tension. Whether they are cheesy or jump in your face scary, horror movies can connect many different types of people together.