“Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King

In the essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King the first sentence is the best in the whole essay which is “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better and maybe not all that much better, after all”. I think the author is correct because we all like some sort of thing that is sick if it is not a horror movie than it is something else that can be as bad as a horror movie. I believe that everyone has a part in ourselves that need an amount of horror to be happy; for example, like the author mention we all go through happiness, sadness, loyalty, friendship, love and the only one that we don’t dare let out in the evilness or killing and torturing people; therefore, we go to movies to see it and feel better. One of the main reasons that many people go to watch horror movies is because we are always trying to prove to others and ourselves that we are strong and can handle it. Another reason is to have fun which we will also release our angry and our need to be evil. If you are not a horror movie fan than you enjoy other evil things such as dark jokes, stories, video games or etc.

Personally, I am a horror movie fan, but nowadays horror movies are predicable, boring, always have to do with kids, and are just disgusting not scary at all. For example, the hills has eyes, bloody valentine, and etc are bloody movies in where you can see guts flying out, heads ripped out and dead bodies but where are the jumpy unexpected parts. Old movies were so much better and even scarier; for instance, for me a scary movie is where you are wondering what is going on and every now and then there a part in which you jump; therefore, they have to be unexpected and very different from the rest. I don’t find movies in which there blood everywhere and people are constantly dying to be scary, but rather disgusting and pointless. For me, I like feeling scared or watching the movie with a friend and seeing the way they react to the movie; I think it is fun and love how unique everyone is. I think guys sometimes try to act strong and watch a scary movie with their girlfriend to seem manly, but really nowadays there is no pressure which means that you can either like them or not and no one would really care. I like this essay and especially the first line; I think the first line said everything that needed to be said which is that we are all mental ill and there is always something that will make each of us unique in a strange way. In the other hand, I think that you should be a age to be able to watch scary movie because some people cannot handle it well and will let their angry copy movies and be killer by angry moments or even on purpose. I think they are a lot of violent and it is thanks to video games and movies in which people get so use to killing in a game or by seeing it that it become so familiar that they will be killer themselves and act aggravates for every small problem; therefore, scary movies can be good but people should be careful.