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
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essay is available at the end of the article for reference. An Excuse for Horror: Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” The first Stephen King novel I read‚ Christine‚ was chilling‚ weird‚ creepy‚ and strange. But I loved it. The second‚ Carrie‚ was even less normal‚ and I was enthralled by it‚ too. How could these horror stories of a possessed‚ homicidal car and a supernatural‚ misunderstood‚ vengefully murderous teen be a story for
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Stephen King’s presumptuous article‚ "Why We Crave Horror Movies"‚ inspects the inner‚ mentally psychotic adaptation of human beings‚ and explores our obsessive attraction to gruesome and tantalizing horror movies. He believes that we are all secretly morbid and insist on using scary films to produce our psychotic relief from the demanding civilized society we live in; King states‚ " I think we are all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it a little better ". He values the
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summer of 1983; I was reading my first Horror novel by Jay Anson “The Amityville Horror”‚ it was the scariest thing I had ever picked up. Despite the late hours I continued to read into the early morning hours until my eyes burned for relief. Whenever I got up to use the rest room I would stand on the end of my bed lean over and open the door and jump so not to be grabbed by monsters that might be laying in wait under my bed. This started a long love affair for horror stories. For instance Stephen King
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Horror Fiction Horror is in many ways a unique genre. It has the ability to make us feel frightened‚ disgusted and fascinated at the same time. During an intense scene in a horror movie or book you often feel tempted to look away‚ but at the same time you’re “glued” to the screen or page – You can’t let go; you want to see what’s hiding in the dark. Another fascinating aspect of the horror genre is the fact that it remains controversial due to its extreme nature. A lot of critiques argue that horror
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Why We Crave Horror Movies I totally agree with King in that we are all a little twisted‚ just some more than others. Our minds are very complex‚ and we may never really know why we enjoy seeing people getting hurt or killed in a movie‚ but for some reason we do‚ and we pay to see it. There are four types of people that watch horror movies: The ones who watch every single that comes out‚ and collects them all; The ones who go because they are tough‚ and want to seem cool because they weren’t
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how crazy people are who eat lettuce? Would you call out there weakness’ stating they only eat lettuce to fulfill a need for healthy behavior?Or risk exposing the single element of life that allows your business to strive? Well in Why We Crave Horror Movies Stephen King did and today were going to talk about why. Maybe he had a need to express a personal belief. Then again he could have tried to expose a part of everyone’s psyche that is often hidden from one another. Or maybe he is offering a semi-logical
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Stephen King “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Close Reading 1. Mr. King states his thesis in the very first sentences‚ “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better- and maybe not all that much better‚ after all. Located in paragraph one. Mr. King states that all people are mentally ill but hold it in better then the people locked up in mental wards. 2. Mr. King is references to “jack the Ripper” and “Cleveland Torso”; it supports his thesis
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“Why we crave horror movies” In the essay “Why we crave horror movies” Stephen King argues the reason why we crave watching horror movies‚ examining the obvious and hidden. King believes we are all mentally ill by saying that we’ve all known people who have a certain kind of characteristic that can be found a little crazy. Why do we watch horror movies then? King starts with the first cause‚ which is: to show that we are not scared. He compares it to the thrill of a roller coaster; People ride
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interesting word to you all which is ”horror”. Most of the time we just simply say that “horror thing”‚ “horror movie”‚ “horror place”‚ but are we really know what is the meaning of horror‚ or define horror in a better way? In fact‚ horror can be defined as anything which causes intense feeling of shock‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or something frightening. Horror may caused by something ugly‚ bad or disagreeable‚ hence causing strong dislike or loath. Any definition of horror that asserts any form of fear‚
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