Why We Crave Horror Movies Essay

Why do we Crave Horror Films? Why do we crave horror films? Some say it’s to overcome fear, some say to understand fear, others say just for the excitement. Yet, author of the novel Why we Crave Horror Movies, Mr. Stephen King seems to think differently. Mr. King believes that we all love horror movies because of three specific reasons: to prove that we can sit through an entire movie, to reassure ourselves that we are normal, and oddly just because people love seeing others in danger. His allegations are that all we humans are a little insane inside and horror films gives us that chance to indulge in that wild imagination that we have to feel normal. With saying, we see these commercials advertising these thrillers and horror films. The commercial usually have screaming in fear, running, and some type of death about to happen. Why exactly does the death or pain of someone appeal to us so? Society has marked it as crazy or “sick” to want someone in such situations “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it better – and maybe not all that much better, after all.” (209) Thus the excitement of a horror film. Things such of public lynching has been replaced by these films. You are releasing the side of you that has been hidden. Because i’m not a violent person and my heart is to big to hurt someone, I get a release out of watching it happen …show more content…
Also, I feel that I would outsmart the others and be the one that survives. I’m always the one person that screams at the victims. No, girl you better run, beat him with a stick ! Although I’m not violent, but I will get violent when necessary. If a killer is after me, my first instinct is to call for help; then hide will hide until I can escape. If I am spotted by the killer or monster in the process, then I will pick up the first weapon I see and beat