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    murder or brutality is all you will see. Why would anyone want to go and see a horror movie? What is so special that one would waste their time and money for something like this? Every Halloween time, new horror films are released. Some popular in the past such The Nightmare on Elm Street series and the Halloween series, which included Freddy Krueger and Jason and their murders and horror. Then to the present day movies such as, Paranormal Activity series and the very high-rated Insidious Chapter

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    (King, 2011, p. 561). Stephen King, a prolific author who writes popular horror novels (some of which have been turned into films themselves), wrote that opening sentence in his article about people’s love for horror films. In his article, “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, King argues that our sanity places itself front and center, whenever someone watches a horror movie. King states that there are the obvious reasons why we enjoy horror films, such as the search for a thrill or the simple amusement of the

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    The concept of horror movies and scary thing intrigues people for some reason, making it strange that people can actually enjoy these type of things. In 1981 Stephen King wrote an article called Why we crave horror movies. He described the people who enjoy horror movie are the mentally insane, the deep dark void in the back of your head secretly wants to come out. Or he describe the other as brave and curious people, wanting to show that their not afraid. In Why we crave horror movies, Stephen king

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    boggling phenomenon that a lot of people are fond of horror movies. To determine the inherent mechanism, Stephen King, the leading role in the field of modern horror fiction, indited this article "Why we crave horror movies?" He analyzes with artful inditing skills from psychological perspective the possible reasons driving people to optically canvass horror movies. In this article, Stephen King provides several explications to why people like horror movies. The simple and conspicuous reasons include that

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    Value of Horror Movies and Books “How do you people watch this?!?! ” and “Why do everyone in this room have this intense love for horror movies was two phrases that I heard one night at my friend’s house while we watched Jason killed his 3rd victim on Friday the 13th. “Horror is defined as being a strong aversion mingled with dread” stated by Patrick Johnson in his paper, “The Importance of Horror”. Just like Graff’s essay on “Hidden Intellectualism”, there is a hidden value in horror films and

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    different horror movies. Bringing up the topic about horror movies or just the genre “horror” brings chills to Morgan and makes her squirm in her seat. It’s strange to acknowledge the fact that horror movies can have one of two effects on people. They either enjoy the thrill, or despise the feeling of being terrified. Based off Morgan’s reaction when I mentioned that we would be discussing horror movies, it was clear that she wasn’t the biggest fan of these films with her simple statement of “Horror movies

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    Horror: A Necessary Part of Life Do you enjoy watching murder, the paranormal, and any other morbid scene which makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, your palms sweat, and your adrenaline surge? Why people enjoy watching murder, tragedy, and carnage in their spare time has been a mysterious phenomenon. If these gruesomely horrific scenes would not be enjoyable in real life, why is watching a recreation of it so riveting? Stephen King, a world-renowned horror novelist, wrote “Why We Crave

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    Stephen King made many different horror movies. Some people may say that he is the King of horror movies. King also had many reasons on why we crave horror movies. Some reasons on why we crave horror movies is to prove that we are brave and not afraid. Also, to re-establish that we are “ normal.” The last reason is to have fun, we enjoy to see people get killed to exorcise our demons. All of these reasons are very valid and give good reasons why we crave horror movies. The first reason is to prove

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    the human condition. That also is why we crave horror movies is so we can get scared and prepare for yourself if it happens to us. Stephen King is correct when he claims that we are all mentally ill and crave horror because we are trying to prove that we are not afraid that we can get through it, Humans crave horror to have fun, and that if we are insane, then we are no better than the other men that do it too. The first reason that People crave horror is because we are trying to prove that we are

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    Summary of Why We Crave Horror Movies The essay, by award winning horror writer, Stephen King outlines his views as to, “Why We Crave Horror Movies’. King explicates that he feels we are all mentally unstable. He asserts that there are varied levels to our derangement and degrees of insanity that exist in us all, some of us just tuck the crazy away a little better than others. He takes a few other reasons into consideration also. The first being, the thrill of it all. We want to challenge our fears

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