Monday, March 30, 2015

Why We Crave Horror Movies by Stephen King


Summary
In the article “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Stephen King talks about how people are mentally ill for liking the horror movies so much. He claims that we all crave horror movies for their excitement and to also prove ourselves that we can. King also relates horror movies to a roller-coaster, he says that horror movies always get the audience unpredictable like a roller-coaster and also make them scream. King supports his claim by giving various examples such as, horror movies feed the alligators that are in our brain, which are craving to do the crazy things we all want to but know are wrong to do. He writes that horror movies give us relief from the stress. He uses very intelligent tone towards the readers.
Response

After reading the article “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King, I felt totally agreed with him. King was very confident on what he was stating and also proved to be right with his strong examples. I learned that he is a well experienced writer and do a good job convincing his readers. I also believe that we crave horror movies because we are mentally ill. We all want to see things that we cannot do in real life and I believe that’s what make the horror movie genre so unique. Horror movies have been always my love and I love watching them. As king stated “We watch the horror movies, to show that we can” this is exactly what I think when going to watch a horror movie. Horror movies are so much fun. 

3 comments:

  1. You described the article but also there are a few spelling mistakes that make the reader go back and re-read what you wrote. Other than that I like what you wrote.

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  2. I totally agree with you, and I really think that we love watching horror movies because we all want that thrill and excitement. It's just another way of saying why we're all mentally ill in a nutshell.

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  3. Totally agree with what you said, I believe some us are willing to take risks and do life threatening things just to say that we can. However, we tend to not think of the consequences along with those risks that we usually take. Overall, great summary, great response.

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