Why We Crave Horror Movie Analysis

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The movies “Amelia” from the Trilogy of Terror directed by Dan Curtis and Misery directed by Rob Reiner are similar in plot, in that they both feature bursts of violence, the scheming of plans and the use of knifes. They also meet the three reasons King gives in the interview Why We Crave Horror Movies by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper. The movies involve multiple tense fighting scenes, the making of plans, and knives. In “Amelia” there are multiple times that Amelia fights the doll. In one scene, the doll attacks her with a knife and she tries to escape. Later on, she wrestles with the doll to try to get it away from the knife and it ends up biting her neck. She ends up trying to get the doll to let go of her neck and throws it in …show more content…

One of the reasons that King gives us on the interview, Why We Crave Horror Movies is that we crave horror movies because they make us feel normal. Like in “Amelia”, not everyone can say they had to fight a knife wielding doll with the spirit of a hunter in it. We feel normal because that problem isn’t relevant to our lives. Our daily problems and situations seem normal and simple compared to having a doll trying to kill you in your house. In Misery, it’s the same case. Paul is fighting to survive being in the home of a psychopathic fan’s home. Most of us aren’t famous, so we don’t have to deal with fan’s who are too passionate about us. The movie leaves us with the sense of relief that we aren’t famous and that that situation isn’t a possibility for us. Another reason that King gives us is that we crave that roller coaster of a ride that the plot is. For example, Amelia catches the doll with a blanket and tries to drown it, but it escapes, she tries to trap it in a suitcase, but it cuts a hole in the suitcase, she also tries to take away the knife, but it fights her to get the knife back. In the end, after she tried to kill it in the oven, she ends up possessed by the doll, calling her mom and saying “This is Amelia, mom. I 'm sorry I acted the way I did. I think we should spend the evening together... just the way we planned. It 's kind of late though. Why don 't you come by my place and we 'll go from here? No, I 'm all right! Good. I 'll be waiting for you” to lure her mother to her house. In “Amelia”, when we feel like the main character is winning she ends up losing. Then, in Misery, there are points in which we think that Paul is going to escape, but Annie is, intentionally or unintentionally, one step ahead. For example, Paul cheeks his painkillers and puts the powder in a envelope, so that when he has dinner with her he puts the powder in her drink, but she ends up spilling the

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