WHY WE CRAVE HORROR
Calvin brown Analyzing “Why We Crave Horror movies” EN1320
The purpose of this article is to explain why we as people are so in to horror movies. The intended audience is anyone who loves horror movies. Why We Crave Horror Movies he attempts to explain the reasons we go in to dark movie theaters and endure the horror of a scary movie. His main conclusion is that we are all a little deranged as he states, “If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree.” In King’s essay, it seems he generally assumes that people like horror movies, which is most definitely not the case. I, for one, do not like horror movies and don’t understand why someone would see a movie that creates a plot out of some horrific scenes from your worst nightmares. But I think King is focusing on those people who do like scary movies for this particular essay. One of his reasoning that we go is “to re-establish our feelings of essential normality,” in that no matter how ugly or out of place we feel in this world, it’s nothing compared to the monsters and crazy killers in a horror movie. This reasoning seems to cater to people trying to define themselves in this world.
King states that one of the reasons we go to see horror movies is to prove to ourselves that we’re not afraid. He relates the experience to riding a roller coaster; that no matter how much audacity we think we have, if it’s really good we still might let out a scream. He also thinks that the horror movie is a young person’s domain, in contrast to where an elderly person might not find amusing. He supports this assumption by analyzing the feelings we let out when watching a horror movie. We can set aside our civilized, adult self we must carry with us throughout society and become enjoy a simpler mind set. Because the younger generation usually goes sees horror movies my time going in the movie theater I have barley seen older people in there.
Lastly, King reasons that underlying
The purpose of this article is to explain why we as people are so in to horror movies. The intended audience is anyone who loves horror movies. Why We Crave Horror Movies he attempts to explain the reasons we go in to dark movie theaters and endure the horror of a scary movie. His main conclusion is that we are all a little deranged as he states, “If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree.” In King’s essay, it seems he generally assumes that people like horror movies, which is most definitely not the case. I, for one, do not like horror movies and don’t understand why someone would see a movie that creates a plot out of some horrific scenes from your worst nightmares. But I think King is focusing on those people who do like scary movies for this particular essay. One of his reasoning that we go is “to re-establish our feelings of essential normality,” in that no matter how ugly or out of place we feel in this world, it’s nothing compared to the monsters and crazy killers in a horror movie. This reasoning seems to cater to people trying to define themselves in this world.
King states that one of the reasons we go to see horror movies is to prove to ourselves that we’re not afraid. He relates the experience to riding a roller coaster; that no matter how much audacity we think we have, if it’s really good we still might let out a scream. He also thinks that the horror movie is a young person’s domain, in contrast to where an elderly person might not find amusing. He supports this assumption by analyzing the feelings we let out when watching a horror movie. We can set aside our civilized, adult self we must carry with us throughout society and become enjoy a simpler mind set. Because the younger generation usually goes sees horror movies my time going in the movie theater I have barley seen older people in there.
Lastly, King reasons that underlying