In Stephen King’s essay “Why we crave horror movies” it explores the idea that we all have a part of insanity inside of us. In our day to day lives we are expected to act rationally and as humane as possible to stick with the status quo and not stray away from being considered weird, or abnormal. He elaborates that we use certain experiences, events, and situations in our lives to let the crazy part of us escape and explore our most absurd desires and thoughts. Such as horror movies they give us withdrawal, and give us an emotional high for, it seeks our most childish thoughts and most outrageous imagination. He justifies that horror movies are a symbol of the bad emotions and actions that we are forced to suppress, therefore that’s why we
