Why People Crave Horror Movies

The psychological reasoning behind why people crave horror films is because of our emotions, to be specific it's our anticivilization emotions. We were born with these emotions, we grew up with the emotions, which Stephen King called it the insanity within in us. On page 599 he expressed,"Our emotions and fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone". King explained that we all have the feeling of doing something inhumane like serial killers, but do not express them by killing, we express them by listening and watching something horrific. We don't see it as a crime to watch a fake horror film instead of being involved in a murder, which helps us fed into our dark emotions.