Stephen King Why Do We Crave Horror Movies

Horror films have brought up a fear in us we didn’t know we possessed until after we finished watching it. Simultaneously it’s a mechanism that we tend to rely to allow us feel safe more specifically using the horror genre to confront some of the basic concerns of modern society. I disagree with Stephan King’s notion of why we crave horror movies instead we posses paranoia because we live haunted to the ideology of these horrific acts coming to life.
To emphasize, most of us, we watch horror movies as stated in the essay to show we’re not afraid, even if we might be petrified inside. Yet after leaving the showing, we are left with a new discovered fear. One of the most known fears has been a clown. However, why clowns? As a matter of fact, one of the horror films that brought this fear to life was written by Stephan King himself, “It”. Pennywise (the protagonist) was and is still is one of the reasons why teenagers of my generation have an immense fear of clowns. Not to mention, he was not your ordinary clown, since he wasn’t even human instead a demonic entity that disguises as a clown in order to lure children, not to …show more content…
As children, many of us had to sleep with a nightlight in order not to be so afraid of the creepy critters that might appear either in our closet or under our bed. When growing up instead of that fear going away it grew thus we were allowed to watch more horrific films or go out during the night. Yet we always seemed to associate darkness with fear and disasters. the power of memory, childhood trauma, and the ugliness lurking behind a façade of traditional small-town values. One character that’s been recreated several times has been the famous freddy kruggar. Who hides in shadows or lives in our nightmares and torments children. With his very creepy song that’s suck in your head weeks after watching it “ and avoiding falling asleep so he won’t “haunt you” causing emotional