Human beings are emotional creatures. We can be happy, sad, scared, and angry all at the same time. Some can be described as overly emotional, dramatic, cold, and crazy, but just how accurate and exclusive or inclusive are these given stereotypes, more importantly crazy? “Why we crave horror films?” by Stephen King is about the underlying reasons human beings are so drawn to the production of horror films and rollercoasters, what they bring out in us, and why we keep going back for more. King argues that horror movies satisfy an important and essential human necessity of grim impulse and socially unacceptable desires in everyone. He writes about the need “to put away our more civilized and adult penchant for analysis and to become children
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The first two ar self-explanatory, but the third ‘fun’ is not the normal, play games fun. When king refers to the fun of horror films, he means the adrenaline rush and excitement that most feel when seeing someone die in the movie. I agree with King’s arguments about humanity’s attraction to horror. Human beings are animals. For so much of our lives, it is preached that we are above all other creatures. We use our attachment to religion, creations stories, and emotions to set ourselves about the rest of the animal kingdom. We are bound by natural law and, to a certain extent, animalistic instinct. In several ways, we can do things better than the average beaver, but in many other ways we are more …show more content…
Horror movies provide a sense of psychic relief into simplicity, irrationality, and insanity that we have as children. As adults, people are conditioned to overanalyze situations with “if, and, but, and or” statements. Everyone has the part of them that is the “potential lyncher,” as King calls it (that dark side of the human ego). Today, individuality is preached and many times encouraged, but what parts of the human being are we, as a society, allowing. Acceptable emotions are encouraged and rewarded in society. Emotions like love and kindness are reward with positive reinforcement. In preschool, the teachers gave me a sticker for good behavior and being nice to the other students. But what of the other emotions that are not socially acceptable? If I were to punch someone in the face because I wanted to, I would be chastised by a lot of people. Because we are not allowed to act of the suppressed emotional anger and thrill that everyone has, we watch horror movies. Horror movies, along with the occasional sick joke, appeal to the worst side of animalistic instinct. The thought of power over life, and our ability to belittle it, allows our most animalistic instincts to run
The first two ar self-explanatory, but the third ‘fun’ is not the normal, play games fun. When king refers to the fun of horror films, he means the adrenaline rush and excitement that most feel when seeing someone die in the movie. I agree with King’s arguments about humanity’s attraction to horror. Human beings are animals. For so much of our lives, it is preached that we are above all other creatures. We use our attachment to religion, creations stories, and emotions to set ourselves about the rest of the animal kingdom. We are bound by natural law and, to a certain extent, animalistic instinct. In several ways, we can do things better than the average beaver, but in many other ways we are more …show more content…
Horror movies provide a sense of psychic relief into simplicity, irrationality, and insanity that we have as children. As adults, people are conditioned to overanalyze situations with “if, and, but, and or” statements. Everyone has the part of them that is the “potential lyncher,” as King calls it (that dark side of the human ego). Today, individuality is preached and many times encouraged, but what parts of the human being are we, as a society, allowing. Acceptable emotions are encouraged and rewarded in society. Emotions like love and kindness are reward with positive reinforcement. In preschool, the teachers gave me a sticker for good behavior and being nice to the other students. But what of the other emotions that are not socially acceptable? If I were to punch someone in the face because I wanted to, I would be chastised by a lot of people. Because we are not allowed to act of the suppressed emotional anger and thrill that everyone has, we watch horror movies. Horror movies, along with the occasional sick joke, appeal to the worst side of animalistic instinct. The thought of power over life, and our ability to belittle it, allows our most animalistic instincts to run