Why We Crave Horror Movies' by Stephen King

The author explained very briefly about why people choose to watch horror movies to be entertained instead of any other movie. The people just want to experience their reactions when they are watching a horror movie which cause them Goosebumps.

The author of this essay “Stephen King” wrote “Why we crave horror movies” in such way that it relates to everybody’s life out in the world where they prefer to watch a horror movie instead of any other.

“I think we are mentally ill”. King’s main purpose for the passage is to make people understand that why they enjoy watching horror films. He describes about how the people feel the thrill or sometimes the excitement because it makes people feel young again.

“People actually sit through the entire film or pay to watch it at a cinema”

This quote of King makes it clear that people themselves are thrilled and excited to watch horror movies because this makes them feel young or they could fight the fear to watch a horror movie.

“They create scary movies for the audience”

By this quotation King wants to clarify that people watch horror movies that’s why they make it for the people, if people stop watching them then nobody will see it, which means nobody is interested in the horror movies anymore.

King may confuse some readers when he talks about mental illness, this is because he wants to make people realise about what type of movies, they are interested in. He makes people clear that paying to watch a horror movie knowing that its horror movies made people unconscious who have weaker health but still people go just to show other people how brave they are to watch a horror movie.

In my opinion, King wants us to know about the people around the world who are always craving for horror movies, though everybody has an independent opinion to buy a ticket, but these people still go for horror movies to make them feel young or maybe it gives them power to fight the world.

Kings notions of why we all like the entertainment movie instead of horror movies is biased on his opinion because he had created the ideas behind many horror movies and books, but he himself is liable to support his own ideas of watching them.

There are no specific reasons given by the author to clarify his own opinion that why he thinks people like horror movies in comparison with other movies. Though King gave some quotes which makes me it clear that he’s not able to understand the concept of human nature that why they crave such movies which make their heartbeat increase.

In my opinion I would say that everybody has his own likes and dislikes which we are not there to judge somebody, if the author tries to make a statement against those people who like horror movies then he should have given some logical explanation that why he thinks like this about those people.

Work Cited

1. King, Stephen. “Why We Crave Horror Movies.” Models for Writer: Short Essays for Composition. 12th ed. Ed. Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015. 521-524. Print