Stephen King's Essay 'Why We Crave Horror Movies'

King is a credible author and has many written novels yet he also has fallacies. We might just be going to watch a horror movie for the thrill but King has his own opinion on horror movies. King mentions our desire for horror movies and how it affects us emotionally, and mentally. King says, “I think that we’re all mentally ill” (345). This assumption is made to the whole world which is clearly not true. His generalization of all of us being mentally ill is an example of hasty generalization. Although this novel does have some humor and some support to evidence it has little to no effect on his faults and weaknesses. King doesn’t think about everyone but his own opinion being made. The biggest flaw that King makes is that his audience is intended only for those who watch horror movies and has no means for those who don’t. King is a credible author who has written other novels that pertain the idea of violence or horror so he knows what he is doing. The only problem that he has in his critical essay is that he doesn’t involve or think about others. In a way, King also uses the logical fallacy ad populum because of the way he talks about people. Restating the quote, “I think we’re all mentally ill” is an example of ad populum as well. Most of Kings comments are towards the readers who have been to the theater or have watched a movie at home. King makes negative remarks to people who watch horror movies. I find this very curious of the author to speak to the public in that manner to avoid the

So say my personal tastes in movies make me a sick bastard just because of the subject matter portrayed in the narrative. Ok, well that isn’t exactly about what Stephen King was saying. King tells us that the horror movie does a dirty job of satiating our urges and letting our instincts run free, which in turn means that most people have something deep and dark inside them, merely a hairpin away from freaking out and murdering adorable puppies for no good reason (and there are plenty of good reasons, stop lying to yourself). I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel anything deep and evil inside of me that must be satiated so I don’t go on a weekly blood rampage so I feel like that isn’t the reason.

“One critic has suggested that if pro football has become the voyeur’s version of combat, then the horror film has become the modern version of public lynching.” (paragraph 6) This is a prime example of one of the many argumentative strategies in the essay. Not only does the said quote prove that King’s opinion is shared by others but also that it appeals to authority. By including an experts shared opinion on the matter, King’s argument becomes much more compelling. “To show that we can, to show that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster” (paragraph 3) is an extremely effective metaphor king uses to help better describe why we go to see movies in the first place. We’ve all been on a roller coaster before so we can easily relate to what the author is explaining to us. King also uses a personal anecdote as an example of feeding our dark side what it wants; “For myself, I

sample, but it also appeals to population and emotion. To further explain why we crave

Come to find out we as humans do have a dark side to our personality. In fact, our brains make imaginary monsters, demons, witches, and other crazy scary figures you can think of. We are all plugged in with the positives and negatives. In why we crave horror Stephen King is correct because he states that humans crave horror to face our fears; however, he is also wrong by claiming that we as humans crave horror to establish our feelings of normalcy and to experience a peculiar way of fun.

In the essay, "Why We Crave Horror Movies", Steven King explains that the modern day horror movie is our relief for violence it is what feeds the gator. He uses horror movies because of there violent nature. We all need to be able to step outside life's boundaries and certain

“Why we crave horror movie” is a type of mini review written by Stephen King in playboy 1981 in which he had discussed, various features of the horror movies. Stephen King is an American writer well famous for writing the horror movies and is popular in the world of literature as Richard Bachman. In this mini-review King had used an ethical approach to delineate the differences between the some of the horror movies and to highlight certain psychological factors responsible for people’s craving for the horror movies. In this piece of writing, King had spotted certain emotions that become reason for this psychological drive. Moreover, he by using his straightforward approach

As I was lying in bed recalling the event happened an hour before I was thinking to myself that I will never look at lightning the same way again. Thunder and lightning was still present in the night sky as I lay there in bed thanking God I was alive and well. Each flash of lightning lit the entire room and each clap of thunder rattled the windows of my hotel room. Lightning can seem much more terrifying when you’re up 20,000 ft in the mountains, and the thunder sounds a lot louder too. The sound of nature’s fury seemed to slowly descend as the night went on, but my nerves did not. I was still stunned and in shock of being stuck in a lightning storm high in the mountains. I never thought about the power and damage lightning can inflict

“Why We Crave Horror Movies” does not argue any opposing perspectives, causing weaknesses in the essay. Stephen King neglects to argue reasons against

Stephen King said, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They’re inside us, and sometimes, they win.” This quote sums up the arguments made in the article “Why We Crave Horror” and what King believes. Stephen King makes three correct claims saying that humans crave horror to have a peculiar sort of fun, face our fears, and reestablish our feelings of normalcy.

This gives the audience something to continually ponder on through the rest of the essay and become one step closer to being fully emerged in the world of Stephen King’s thoughts.

In the essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King, the author talks about the benefits of the horror movies on human beings. He argues that we all behave like mad people by performing weird things like talking to ourselves, showing disgusting faces and having odd fears. Comparing the horror movies with roller coasters, he states that young people are more fascinated by these adventures to prove the point that they can do this and are not afraid of taking challenges. He argues that we get fun by watching people getting hurt and suffering from menacing pain in the movies. Despite having insane thoughts in their mind which they want to execute in reality people are expected to show emotions that are accepted by the society. Horror movies gives psychic relief to these insane

“I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better-and maybe not that much better after all.” In “Why We Crave Horror Movies” the author Stephen King argues that everyone is a “potential lyncher.” I enjoy an occasional horror film that is well made. Most horror films are not that scary. Horror films tend to be low quality and sometimes they are garbage. I have seen my share of lousy horror films. I do watch horror films to be entertained and I enjoy the suspense. Although I appreciate some horror films I disagree with Steven King’s bold statements, and I agree with some of his other statements. In Steven Kings thesis: “if we share a brotherhood of man, then we also share an insanity of man.”

People develop multiple reasons to why they like to receive these odd and fear emotions, which now in society we call insanity. In the “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King’s main argument is to satisfy our curiosity. In the other speech, “How Tabloid Train Wrecks are Reinventing Gothic Literature” by Carina Chocano whose main argument is to prove how Gothic literature is very similar to gossip. Tempting to see Gothic tales as escapism but these stories will sum up during times of trouble. Fascination with fear or Gothic stories satisfy some emotional need of individuals and of society by making us feed our inner child that is inconstantly of satisfaction.

It was a dark, cold, November night. The moon overlooked the lake as it mirrored its reflection. It was peaceful, too peaceful. I was on my way to my aunt’s, who lived a mile or so from my house. I didn’t want to go, but my mother made me. She was working a double shift at the hospital and she didn’t want me to be alone tonight. Tonight was the night my brother died two years ago. It’s a funny story how it happened, but that’s a story to tell another time. According to Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” he draws viewers into horror stories like the one above simply because we crave it. King claims in his essay we obsess over the wanting of horror as if we are daring the nightmare. The human condition is finally allows people