Keeping the Light On Although watching horror movies may produce negative psychological effects‚ horror movies can be some people first choice for entertainment. Referring to the essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by author Stephen King‚ who stated that “When we pay our four to five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie‚ we are daring the nightmare.” People are always thrilled to go see horror movies in the theatres without thinking of the consequences.
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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.”
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people enjoy a fine horror film. The feeling of being scared comes naturally when watching a fearsome movie. However‚ one has to ask‚ what is it about horror that people enjoy? They are aware that watching these types of movies will make them scared‚ but most people still go watch these movies and essentially pay to be scared.What is it about these movies that drive others to go see them? In Stephen King’s essay‚ “Why we Crave Horror Movies‚” some causes of why people watch horror movies because there
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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 do not do this
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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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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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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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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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Analysis of Why We Crave Horror Movies Thesis: Stephen King never clearly states the thesis of this essay however there is enough information provided that we can infer one. We need to keep our inner lyncher at bay by feeding ourselves with small portions of demonic‚ bloody‚ violence‚ found in horror movies. King writes “It deliberately appeals to all the worst in us. It is morbidity unchained‚ our most base instincts let free‚ our nastiest fantasies realized...” (Why We Crave Horror Movies‚ paragraph
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