Analysis Of Why We Crave Horror Movies

Does anyone know why people find an interest in decapitating someone or slowly watch them get eaten by the dead? In the story Why We Crave Horror Movies the author, Stephen King, quotes numerous lines about death, murder, spirits, and many other violent quotes that people could think of. The author does a good job at this because of the way the story is said that makes people feel inside where the story takes place. Stephen King correctly states that people are all mentally ill, people need horror movies to stay normal, and to watch movies for that weird sort of joy. First off, Stephen King states that everyone is mentally ill, in so me way. For example, King states, “We’ve all known people who talk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch

In the short story “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Stephen King accurately states, “ the horror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary.” What this is saying is no matter how bloody or how intense the movie gets, people could always enjoy a little horror in their day. Some movies have those scenes where some person gets injured then killed and that really gets the blood pumping in the viewers and for some people, that essential normality that cures the craziness. To continue, King makes another good point in the short story, “Why We Crave Horror“ and correctly claims, “we may be removed from the beauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light years away from true ugliness.” This quote from King’s story states that no matter what happens to people it could always be solved with a quick thrill from a horror movie and that humans do this to have fun with normality. Despite the fact that people seem that it's normal to watch someone get butchered or decapitated but, people can also have some fun and excitement for the

Springheel Jack demonstrates Stephen King’s claim in two ways. He is both like us and at the same time, he is the monster exercising his macabre emotional muscles at the farthest end of the insanity. King states, “if we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree.” Before it is revealed that the narrator is, indeed, Springheel Jack, purposeful diction uncovers the grotesque joy he experiences from the events of 1968. For example, his roommate comes into the room shouting that the killer was loose. It turns out that even though they were all, our killer included, drawn into and enjoying the drama. Those of us on the less insane side of the spectrum still enjoy the excitement, drama and mystery of horror and horrific tales; such tales become amusing, akin to enjoying sick jokes. Of course, we would never maim or murder; however, we binge watch Investigation Discovery true crime docu dramas of every imaginable sort. We shell out our twenty bucks to watch the latest Stephen King inspired horror film. Stephen King rightly claims, they provide a psychic release central to the Human Condition. In the same way that we all experience love, joy, and sadness, we additionally experience aggression, hostility, and